From a_indabronx at fastmail.fm  Sat Aug  6 14:20:40 2016
From: a_indabronx at fastmail.fm (a_indabronx)
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2016 07:20:40 -0700
Subject: [OccupyCU] Internationalist Articles on European Refugee Crisis
Message-ID: <1470493240.3579812.687746177.54671E40@webmail.messagingengine.com>

Down with Racist Fortress Europe!
Full Citizenship Rights for all Immigrants!
For a Socialist United States of Europe!
Italy: The Refugee Crisis and Capitalist Barbarism

http://www.internationalist.org/italyrefugeecrisis1607.html

The graphic images of lifeless bodies stretched out along shorelines and
in the sea, of traumatized survivors weeping for the loss of their loved
ones, have put the European refugee crisis in the spotlight. The massive
flow of desperate refugees and immigrants toward Europe is a result of
the imperialist devastation of the Near East, Africa and parts of Asia.
The reaction of the European Union (EU) countries to the flow of
refugees has been to build fences to keep them out, holding thousands in
concentration camps The bourgeoisies of the EU want to control
immigration so that only those can enter that are potentially useful for
them to churn out profits. The Nucleo Internazionalista d'Italia and the
League for the Fourth International put forward a transitional program
for workers action including calling for asylum for Syrian and other
refugees fleeing war and persecution and full citizenship rights for all
immigrants. We call to close the detention centers, oppose the racist
immigration laws and mobilize workers actions to stop deportations. To
go to the source of the mass migration means fighting to drive out the
imperialists, the biggest mass murderers of all. However, such a class
struggle goes against the class-collaborationist programs of various
groups falsely claiming to be Trotskyist, who supported the
popular-front governments that set up the detention camps and have
backed pro-imperialist "rebels" from Libya to Syria. The struggle for
immigrants' rights is inseparable from the fight for socialist
revolution, on both sides of the Mediterranean.

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"Communists" Who Oppose Calls for Asylum for Syrian Refugees
Strange Encounters with the ICL

http://www.internationalist.org/strangeencounterswiththeICL1608.html

At the Lutte Ouvrière Fête in May we had heated exchanges with spokesmen
of the  International Communist League who accused the League for the
Fourth International of being "bleeding-heart liberals" and supporters
of "humanitarian imperialism" for calling for asylum for refugees,
Syrian and otherwise. The frenzy of their denunciations of the LFI
reflected an extended internal dispute inside the ICL over immigration.
In the face of the refugee crisis that exploded last year, these former
Trotskyists insistently limit their calls for citizenship for immigrants
to "those who have made it here," and now oppose calls for full and
unrestricted right of asylum, the right of immigrants and refugees to
health and social services, and the right to travel inside the EU. It
pulled an article about to be published with these demands, saying that
they sowed illusions in a "social Europe" and reflected "a reactionary
utopian 'open the borders' line." In rejecting such demands, the
latter-day ICL once again turns its back on its own history and the
heritage of revolutionary Trotskyism. Rather than acting as champions of
the oppressed, by focusing exclusively on opposition to the liberal
bourgeois illusion of "open borders" under capitalism, in practice it
has allied itself with the most retrograde xenophobic elements of the
bourgeoisie.

From a_indabronx at fastmail.fm  Sat Aug 20 00:03:11 2016
From: a_indabronx at fastmail.fm (a_indabronx)
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 17:03:11 -0700
Subject: [OccupyCU] Portland OR Painters & Drywall Finishers Say: Break with
 the Democrats, For a Workers Party
Message-ID: <1471651391.487578.700664177.371EDC02@webmail.messagingengine.com>

https://csw-pdx.org/2016/08/19/painters-drywall-finishers-say-break-with-the-democrats-for-a-workers-party/

The following resolution was introduced by CSWP supporters and adopted
unanimously by IUPAT Local 10 members at their meeting on 17 August
2016. CSWP fights to unchain the power of the working class by breaking
our unions away from the parties of capital. Join us!

No Support to the Democrats, Republicans,
or Any Party of the Bosses

Whereas the bosses have two parties to represent their class while the
millions of working people have none, and

Whereas the Democratic president Barack Obama sent the U.S. Coast Guard
to enforce scabbing against the International Longshore and Warehouse
Union during the 2013-14 lock-out of northwest dock workers, and

Whereas the Democratic governor Kate Brown opposed and undercut the
movement for a $15 minimum wage across Oregon, and

Whereas in 2014 Democrats in Congress joined with Republicans to pass a
disastrous pension “reform,” allowing the bosses to escape their
obligations and cheat our retirees, and

Whereas the two presidencies of the Democrat Barack Obama have been
eight years of unending war in the Middle East,North Africa and Asia,
causing untold human suffering, millions of refugees, and attacks on our
democratic rights at home, and

Whereas the Democratic Party in power has deported some 5 million
immigrants, a record, and

Whereas across the country, from Oakland to Baltimore, police under
Democratic mayors regularly murder black men and women with impunity,
and

Whereas the 2016 presidential election offers us the “choice” between a
raving, bigoted clown and a career representative of Wall Street, and

Whereas the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Virginia governor
Tim Kaine, supports union- busting “right to work” laws, and

Whereas Democrats and Republicans are and have always been
strike-breaking, war-making parties of the bosses, and

Whereas so long as the labor movement supports one or another party of
the bosses, we will be playing a losing game, therefore be it

Resolved that IUPAT Local 10 does not support the Democrats,
Republicans, or any bosses’ parties or politicians, and

Resolved that we call on the International Union to repudiate its
endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president, and

Resolved that we call on the labor movement to break from the Democratic
Party, and build a class- struggle workers party.