Re: [Marxism] immigration (response to K)

["Calvin Broadbent" <calvinbroadbent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You supported (and probably still support, having not listened to the
criticisms of the reactionary nature of your tirades against the 'Islamist'
Iraqi rebels) the occupation of Iraq by imperialist USUK murderers,
plunderers, and starvers. You supported a small flunky labor aristocracy in
Iraq that acquiesces in the occupation of their country. Do you now support
the Iraqi constitution? Do you then wish an Ireland or Yugoslavia in Iraq?

You suggest that 'Practical ways need to be found to help workers and their
allies to organise against the bosses, and to create a shift in the balance
of class forces in favour of workers', whilst opposing immigration as an
abstacle to such. Perhaps you might have some success in getting Western
workers behind an anti-immigration program. You might wish to set up (or
join) a political party that advocates protecting British/American/European
jobs for British/American/European people. You might propound the view that
'charity begins at home'. You might intone that immigrants are 'scabs' here
to steal Western jobs, lower the western standard of living, and generally
put the kibosh on the wave of Western proletarian militancy you are, no
doubt, witnessing. Maybe you can take out an ad in one of the popular
newspapers (but your anti-immigrant position might be too radical for those
heralds of cosmopolitanism). While you're at it, why don't you include
opposition to Islamic insurgents in your party manifesto or advertisement?

I hear the BNP or the American Nazi Party are taking applications. If not,
try the Labour Party or the Democrats, or any other capitalist political
formation.

BARNEY KATZ WROTE:

No, Comrade General-Secretary, I wasn't unsubbed
before, I merely dropped out of the 'discussion' back
then because of the barrage of abuse levelled at me
for having the temerity to believe that the incipient
organised workers' movement and the workers' parties,
not the Islamist bombers, represented the way forward
for democracy and the left in Iraq.

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