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.”
Anti-racism
Marxism, Black Liberation and the Global Class Struggle
• The history of global capitalism is inseparable from the histories of slavery, colonialism, and settler colonialism.
• The Black liberation struggle — that is the struggle against the oppression of the people of non-European origin by the people of European origin — plus the struggle for liberation and Self-Determination, and the class struggle are clearly linked.
A propos des rapports entre race et conscience de masse
Afin de donner un sens à ces évolutions, il est bien entendu nécessaire d’évaluer les conditions matérielles objectives qui les sous-tendent. Il est également nécessaire de comprendre les conditions subjectives fondamentales – l’état de conscience de masse – qui façonnent ces réalignements politiques.
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Marxism and the anti-racist struggle
First published: 24 July 2007
Those who suffer from an oppression are the only people who understand all its implications and ramifications. It is for this reason that it is a basic principle that women must lead the struggle against women’s oppression and sexism, that gay and lesbian people must lead the struggle against homophobia and, to take the subject of the present posting, that those communities oppressed by racism must have the leading role in the movement against it.
Racism is of course used to divide the whole of the working class. But above all, racism is a set of institutions and ideology which justifies the oppression and exploitation of the non-white majority of humanity.