RE: Communist Internationalist Position on Immigration and Travel

[aabdo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tony Abdo)]

Brett, I like the article and commentary you mention very much.
Notice I did not claim that internationalism was TOTALLY lacking amongst
the spectrum of parties I mentioned.     Instead, I said that the effort
was VERY, VERY LAX in politicizing this issue of having solidarity with
immigrants.

By the smugness in your comments, I sense a certain self-satisfaction
and complete assuredness,  that the DSP current is leading the way here.
Am I correct?

You and other DSP- Australia members are going to deny it emphatically,
but you have co-thinkers here in the US.     And I don't desire to run
either DSP, or them, through the mud.    And I won't get into a polemic
about whether they exist, or not?    Or to what degree?

But the record is considerably less impressive than you seem to think.
And the history itself, of the US Trotskyist Movement in its entirety,
is not very impressive at all at building cross-country solidarity with
co-thinkers in Latin America, particularly with co-thinkers in Mexico.

Nor is it a very impressive record on the issue of building a current
response to the militarization of the Border and the crimes carried out
by La Migra.     In fact, sometimes it is difficult to be sure that US
Trotskyists would at all be able to locate Mexico on a map.

Still being a Trotskyist, as I have been for 30 years now, I don't think
that I am off base at all in describing the situation as I have.      So
maybe what I had to say might be considered in a little less dismissive
manner?      Are you so still so sure that the current that DSP is
connected with,  is not just a tad lax on the issue I addressed?

Comradely, Tony
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I wrote.....
Unfortunately, communist parties from the Workers World, to the
DSP-Australia, to the Communist Parties of Europe, have gotten very,
very lax (put politely), on teaching their membership and followers,
about what Communists traditionally have advocated regarding travel and
immigration.

to which Brett responded....
<Damn I thought our last cover for 1999.... 'Refugees are not criminals,
open our doors'... was a typo now I know.

Norm you get one last chance...>