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	International Communist Workers Party
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April 21, 2015--The deaths of nine hundred of our class brothers and sisters, drowned in the Mediterranean last weekend, the result of capitalism’s war, chaos, racism and exploitation, makes more urgent the need for communist revolution.
These workers and their families are fleeing countries whose boundaries were created and whose working classes were impoverished by European imperialism. The wars that many are fleeing are the result of capitalist crisis and intensified rivalry between the US and Chinese imperialists. Those who survive the journey will join the masses of super-exploited immigrants in a Europe impacted by capitalist crisis.
This mirrors the situation of immigrants from Mexico and Central America fleeing poverty and murderous violence from cops, gangs, and drug-lords. Many die on their journey in the desert or mountains, and many who survive end up in detention camps, pawns in a capitalist game.

We must mobilize the masses to destroy this murderous system.
As a working class, we must not see ourselves as victims. If we knew our history, we would know that workers from Senegal to Sudan, from Bangladesh to Syria, from Honduras to Guerrero have courageously organized to fight the oppression of capitalism and imperialism.
Those movements were defeated by the weaknesses of the old communist movement, which limited its fight to a losing battle for national liberation under local capitalist bosses. ICWP is an international party which fights directly for communism, and makes no compromises with racism or nationalism. We will build a world run by workers without wage slavery and without borders.

The Current Crisis in the Mediterranean
In the past, thousands of immigrants, mostly single men unable to find work in Central and West African countries ravaged by imperialism, traveled across the Sahara to Morocco to cross the Strait of Gibraltar to Spain, seeking asylum and work in the European Union. This dangerous crossing, often intercepted by Spanish police, caused the deaths of hundreds of migrants a year.
They also traveled to Libya, to find work in the oil fields. Today, the civil war in Libya has cut off that option. These Sub-Saharan Africans join migrants from as far away as Bangladesh and refugees from wars in East Africa and the Middle East.  More than a million refugees have fled these wars—350,000 Somalis in one refugee camp in northern Kenya alone.
The chaos created by US intervention in Libya has made the Libyan city of Tripoli the port of opportunity. Masses of workers have fled there, hoping to find passage to Europe. Murderously opportunist human smugglers take their last penny to send them to their deaths in the Mediterranean.
The dream of a better life in Europe is a cruel hope—the deaths of some  two thousand refugees in the Mediterranean already this year is evidence of the cynicism of European rulers. EU bosses are calling for a new colonial occupation of Libya to control the ports and keep refugees out of Europe. They are building a racist anti-immigrant movement which labels immigrants as terrorists while it relegates them to the worst jobs and the most run-down neighborhoods.
And are now they are trying to separate “refugees” fleeing war who they will warehouse in camps somewhere, from “migrants” fleeing hunger and unemployment who they plan to send back where they came from. 

Both “refugees” and “migrants” are workers trying to escape the devastation—exploitation, unemployment, chaos and war—which imperialism has caused.  In both cases, imperialism makes workers surplus and expendable. The capitalists only need workers if they can exploit them, and as the capitalist crisis of overproduction deepens, more and more workers are surplus for the capitalists.  During the Great Depression in the 1930’s the US bosses were slaughtering hogs while workers starved to death and dumping oranges and milk into the ocean. Now they’re dumping workers into the ocean!

Time to dump the bosses!
The current crisis makes it clear: we must get rid of those who created all this misery for the working class, the capitalists, who are truly expendable. In a communist world, no worker will be surplus. We will organize production for need, not for profit, and the contributions of everyone, from wherever they come, will be valued and welcome. As wars and crisis murder our class sisters and brothers around the world, it is more urgent than ever to mobilize the masses for communism. Join us!

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