As internationalist communists, we recognise that the working class is a class of migrants whose home is not a single country but rather the entire world; we are wage-labourers with no fatherland to defend. Hence, we denounce the efforts made by the ruling class to control us – and keep wages down across the board – through sovereign borders and the whole system of nation-states.
We stand in solidarity with our fellow workers, who are told that there is no space for them in Australia, that they can’t be trusted to abide by the terms of their Visa (as is the case for many Palestinian refugees who were recently refused entry while trying to escape the slaughter back home, only to be told that SOME of them can finally enter the country a week later), or in the instance, they do make it over here, are soon imprisoned in places such as the Australian Government’s “offshore processing centres” on Nauru, Manus Island, and Port Moresby (a promise made and met by the PM himself for the 39 South Asian men found wandering Western Australia) – which were first opened under Howard’s Liberal Government in 2001 and were subsequently reopened by the Gillard Labor government in 2012. Even when these facilities are empty, the government is eager to spend a fortune to keep them open.
Thus, we see that there is no lesser evil and, moreover, that it will not be through making appeals to the bourgeois state, regardless of which party holds government, that we will put an end to the suffering of humankind, which too often is manifested in the imprisonment of those attempting to escape from the life-shattering impact of climate change, poverty and imperialist war, frequently sponsored, when they do not directly involve as warring sides, the same states who later imprison our class siblings.
Only through a complete reordering of society will we be able to do away with poverty and war definitively, and begin to heal the environment, putting an end to the destruction of our planet and the exploitation and oppression of all those in “refugee camps” and “processing centres” around the world, as well as every wage-labourer. The reordering that we advocate and fight for is one where production is for use and not profit; where land, resources, means of production and transportation are all held in common. This new order is called communism – it is a society that can only be achieved through the self-organisation of the working class and international proletarian revolution.
League of Internationalist Communists (Australia)
27 March 2024
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