Immigration: No Easy Answers

Written on March 29th, 2017 in politics Comments Off

Published on The People’s Voice, by James Petras, March 25, 2017.

The cross border flood of millions of immigrants provokes profound political divisions, violence and the rise of mass movements challenging the unity of the European Union (EU) and the survival of the dominant political parties in the US and Europe.

Both the progressive pro-immigrant and rightwing anti-immigration parties and movements propose easy answers and attack their adversaries with political invective.

Both left and right engage in a losing war, based on historical omissions, abstract and muddle-headed assumptions and destructive proposals … //

… Conclusion:

Immigration in the 21st century is significantly different from past waves of migrants. It is highly manipulative to compare the current displacement of millions of war refugees with ‘Ellis Island’ in the US or the post-WWII situation of massive reconstruction in Europe. Immigration today is a direct product of imperial wars, where murder, injury, terror and deliberate shredding of social institutions have forcibly displaced tens of millions of people – the immigrants … //

… Uprooted people must ultimately choose to remain and fight over flight. They must engage in resistance to imperial occupations in their homelands instead of choosing abject submission and indignities abroad. The role of citizens in the West is to support these struggles by opposing the militarists among their own political leaders.

There are no easy answers for mass migration but there are clear causes and proposals for the future.

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  • Cheat, Lie & Steal, Michael Hudson on the Capitalist Way, 25.31 min, March 28, 2017 … we’re living in a time of economic babble, where politicians and economists throw out words like “reform,” “privatize,” and “austerity” to prop up corrupt capitalist opportunists. So says our guest this week, Trotskyist economist Michael Hudson, author of J is for Junk Economics … (full tex);
  • Aaron Tanaka: What can we do leveraging power? 1.49 min, Jan 29, 2017 … Aaron Tanaka, director of the Center for Economic Democracy on what we can do to leverage our people power, local power, economic, and governance power (on YouTube: go local);

Marine LE PEN invitée au JT 20h France2(28/03/17) très agacée par les questions de D.PUJADAS, 34.49 min, mise en ligne par L’info à l’envers III, le 28 mars 2017;

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