If “the problem” the left has to face up to is the concerns of working people about immigration, a good start would be to stop talking about migrants like they’re some sort of inert gas that capitalists pump into the economy to asphyxiate workers’ rights. Migrants are, in fact, human beings who are just as capable as anyone else as getting pissed off at bad pay and crappy conditions and fighting to change them. While the TUC leadership seems capable mainly of organising symbolic marches, and Labour MPs give navel-gazing speeches about how to placate racists, migrants are fighting the battles that are defining the British workplace.
Migrants are not a threat to British workers, but they are a threat to the government. They’re also showing British workers’ useless representatives up. They don’t deserve to be sold out by the left. If anything, an ungrateful left doesn’t deserve immigrants.
i’m going to reblog this every time one of the shitmunchers in the labour party / soft ‘left’ talks shit about immigration.
British workers should check the most succesful Dutch strikes of the last decade, particularily the Cleaners Strike. Workers rights were won specifically by organizing with migrant workers, putting migrants in leadership positions in the strike, recruiting a LOT of translaters, printing all material in multiple languages, etc. Organizing together is how you fucking win.
How Immigrants Are Leading the Fight for British Workers’ Rights and Pay | VICE | United Kingdom
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