{"id":481,"date":"2021-12-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolucionpermanente.com\/english\/?p=481"},"modified":"2022-01-06T11:09:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T10:09:02","slug":"put-an-end-to-the-criminal-policy-of-european-states-against-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolucionpermanente.com\/english\/2021\/12\/15\/put-an-end-to-the-criminal-policy-of-european-states-against-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Put an end to the criminal policy of European States against migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id='corps_texte'>\n<h3>The decadent bourgeoisie looks for scapegoats<\/h3>\n\nThe late 20th century economic crises and the resurgence of mass unemployment in the imperialist centres have substantially reinforced the conspiracist, nationalist and racist tendencies that designate, in one way or another, the foreigner as a scapegoat, as the culprit of the worsening of the situation: \u201c<em>Chinese virus<\/em>\u201d, \u201c<em>cosmopolitan finance<\/em>\u201d, \u201c<em>Europe<\/em>\u201d, \u201c<em>migrants<\/em>\u201d, \u201c<em>Muslims<\/em>\u201d \u2026<br><br>\n\n<ul><li>The bourgeoisie\u2019s \u201c<em>democratic<\/em>\u201d parties (RP in the US, CP in UK, CDU-CSU in Germany, LR in France, PiS in Poland, FIDESZ-MPP in Hungary, PP in Spain, \u00d6VP in Austria\u2026) became even more nationalist and reactionary;<\/li>\n<li>Some xenophobic bourgeois parties (Vox in Spain, Liga in Italy, RN in France, Reform UK \u2013 former UKIP \u2013 in UK, FP\u00d6 in Austria, PVV in Netherlands, AfD in Germany, NVA in Belgium\u2026) emerged in their right.<\/li>\n<li>Fascist groups attack again the migrants, the minorities, and the workers\u2019 organizations in the US and in Europe.<\/li><\/ul>\n\nThe 2016 campaign for the UK exit illustrated that repugnant demagogy. The Boris Johnson supporters within the Conservative Party, as well as Nigel Farage\u2019s UKIP, targeted the immigration from Central Europe and charged the EU for devastating the public healthcare system (which was proceeded by the former British governments).<br><br>\n\n<figure>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/61bb544c5d9d4.jpg\" class=\"images\">\n    <figcaption><center>International Organization for Migration (UN), Migration and Migrants: A Global Overview, December 1, 2021<\/center><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure><br>\n\nMost of the people that are displaced by the environmental disaster, by the drought, by the war, by the famine, by the persecution, by the destitution go in other regions within their State or in a neighbouring State, which itself under-developed. For instance, most of the Burma\u2019s Rohingya refugees fled to Bangladesh, most of the RD Congo\u2019s displaced persons stayed within the country, most Syria\u2019s Arab and Kurdish refugees are in Syria or went to Jordan, Lebanon or Turkey, most of the Colombia or Venezuela\u2019s migrants end up in Latin America, many Ethiopia\u2019s nationals currently come to Eritrea or to Sudan.<br><br>\n\nA minority number try their luck in attempting to reach the imperialist centres, sometimes for joining family members. Every month, refugees that are victims of wars caused or maintained by the big powers or by their allies, and workers who are impoverished by the destruction of their traditional means of subsistence and by the plunder of the natural resources caused by the world capitalism, die in the desert in the South of the US, in the forest in Central Europe, in the Caribbean Sea, in the Channel, off the Canary Islands, and mainly in the Mediterranean Sea\u2026<br><br>\n\n<h3>The European Union and Great-Britain trample on democratic principles <\/h3>\n\nCapital circulates freely. Big capitalists of any nationality who travel in a yacht or in a private jet are welcomed everywhere with open arms.<br><br>\n\nOn the other hand, most States, even those that proclaim democracy, restrict movements of foreigners when they are poor. They throw them in detention centres while they committed no offence. They put up barbed wire and walls. Other States use migrants as a pressure medium to lift sanctions (Belarus), to control a territory (Morocco) or to obtain money (Turkey). To the multiple national armies, polices and customs, the European Union added in 2004 a force especially designed to repel migrants, Frontex. Preparing to take the presidency of the EU, Macron calls for restricting the Schengen Space and to reinforce Frontex so \u201c<em>that Europe knows how to protect its borders<\/em>\u201d in order to better forbid its access to migrants. Nowadays, the United Kingdom and France, which dispute fishing zones, let die human beings who want to cross the Channel. Macron sends the police to destroy migrant camps, while Johnson introduces the Nationality and Borders Bill (December13), which is even more restrictive.<br><br>\n\n<figure>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/61bb544c5f0d3.jpg\" class=\"images\">\n    <figcaption><center>International Organization for Migration (UN), Migration and Migrants: A Global Overview, December 1, 2021<\/center><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure><br>\n\nOn November24, migrants used their telephones to call for help while their inflatable dinghy was sinking \u2026 In a video made public on November 29, one of the two survivors, Mohammed Shekha Ahmad, originating from Iraqi Kurdistan, explains: \u201c<em>We called the French police, we sent our localisation. They told us: you are in in British waters, call the British. We called the British, they told us to call the French<\/em>\u201d (Independent, November 29; Le Monde, December10). In vain, 27 people died.<br><br>\n\nThe French government of Macron-Castex accuses then smugglers, while the government of Johnson reproaches the French State for not preventing departures from the French coast. In fact, \u201c<em>migration policies<\/em>\u201d and the tightening of State controls are what creates the job of smuggler and makes the crossing of borders ever riskier.<br><br>\n\n<h3>Whether one is born here or elsewhere, only one working class!<\/h3>\n\nFacing a growing State repression that does not prevent migrations but divides and weakens the working class in each country, the responsibility of parties of workers\u2019 origin and of labour unions is to struggle for the unity of the proletariat, citizens or foreigners, with or without papers, whatever the beliefs.<br><br>\n\n<ul><li>Residence permits for all refugees, foreign workers and students residing for the long term in a country!<\/li>\n\n<li>Same rights for all workers residing in a country!<\/li>\n\n<li>Immediate closing of all detention centres for foreigners!<\/li>\n\n<li>Freedom for refugees, for workers, for students to move about and settle where they wish!<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\nThese demands can be satisfied only by workers\u2019 governments, the only ones able to overthrow capitalism, to put the economy in the hands of producers, to build up the Socialist United States of Europe as a step towards world socialism.<br><br>\n\n<center>December 15, 2021<\/center>\n\n<center>Permanent Revolution Collective (Austria, France, Spain, Turkey)<\/center>\n\nWe provisionally publish this project of common statement submitted to all internationalist organisations of Europe.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decadent bourgeoisie looks for scapegoats The late 20th century economic crises and the resurgence of mass unemployment in the imperialist centres have substantially reinforced the conspiracist, nationalist and racist&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolucionpermanente.com\/english\/2021\/12\/15\/put-an-end-to-the-criminal-policy-of-european-states-against-migrants\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revolucionpermanente.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revolucionpermanente.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revolucionpermanente.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revolucionpermanente.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revolucionpermanente.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.revolucionpermanente.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"https:\/\/www.revolucionpermanente.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revolucionpermanente.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revolucionpermanente.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revolucionpermanente.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}