[OccupyCU] Internationalist Articles on European Refugee Crisis

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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.