The Stuttgart conference and the debate on immigration
Position agreed by the 1907 Second International:
Any exclusions or measures against migrant workers would be, “a policy that is in conflict with the principle of proletarian solidarity.”
immigration
The Labour government’s immigration policy is straight out of the Trump playbook
The Labour government in Britain is pursuing a similar line on immigration to Trump, and with similar motivations. It is going much further than its Tory predecessors in demonising and attacking both asylum-seekers and migrant workers.
Labour’s legislation and campaigning are promoting racism
The trend in Western politics is for centrist and social democratic parties to espouse racism, while the Trump cabal actively promotes the worst elements of the racist alliance, such as the AfD in Germany and ‘Tommy Robinson’ in Britain.
The Tories’ new racist offensive attacks all workers
The Tories have launched an attack on all working people with their new immigration policy. It will probably do serious damage to our public services, even if big exemptions and exclusions from the new restrictions are finally put in place.
Behind all the populist rhetoric about restricting cheap labour, the major risk is that the system is actually designed to create a new, lower category of worker in this country, akin to something like the gastarbeiter (“guest worker”) status in Germany.
Note from the front of 31-05-2018
Following the reactionary campaign that dominated the June 2016 referendum on EU membership and the racism and xenophobia that were stirred up in its aftermath, there has been a gradual shift in the terrain of the fight over immigration policy in Britain.
March for Windrush: Scrap May’s racist Immigration Act – 5 May
March for Windrush – Scrap May’s racist Act
Sat 5 May 2pm – 4.30pm
Downing Street, London