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September 16—Tens of thousands across Europe have welcomed immigrants fleeing from the horrors of capitalism.  Many are marching for a world without borders. 
The rulers opened their doors briefly, but are now slamming them shut. Hundreds of thousands of migrants have to seek more dangerous routes.  More will die in leaky boats or crossing fields strewn with landmines left over from the Balkan wars of the 1980s.
Millions of Syrian refugees are stuck in camps in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey as rival imperialists use the crisis to intensify war plans. We must work tirelessly to win migrants and their supporters to fight for a communist world, with no money, no bosses, no borders, and no wars for profit.

Solidarity with Immigrants Shows Possibility of a World without Borders

The death of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi on a Turkish beach energized public opinion in Europe. Tens of thousands demanded that their governments welcome refugees.  Many are helping refugees directly.  Some are defying the Hungarian government.  Many applauded the German government’s temporary suspension of border controls. As our leaflet explains (see below) this shows that we can build a society based on human solidarity—not profits and money.
Angry migrants, massed on the Hungarian border, forced an emergency response. They can be an important force in organizing for communism.
Syria, Sudan, Iran and Iraq had mass communist parties in the twentieth century. Immigrants from Europe and the Caribbean led the first communist organizations in the US over a century ago.
Today immigrant workers, including janitors, truck drivers, construction and garment workers, are leading militant class struggle. Immigrant comrades play a major role in the International Communist Workers’ Party.
Immigrants in Europe will lose the dangerous illusion that it’s the Promised Land. Nineteenth-century Greek and Italian immigrants to the US also hoped to find the streets paved with gold.  They found lynch mobs and extreme exploitation instead. 
Recent immigrants from Latin America face intense racism, exploitation and police terror. Police attacks, neo-Nazi rallies and racist rhetoric in the US, Australia and Europe reveal the racist exploitation that awaits the current refugees. 

Only Communism Can End This Crisis

The civil war in Syria has displaced twelve million people. The vast majority have taken refuge elsewhere in Syria or in camps in neighboring countries. And this war in Syria is only one of the capitalist horrors which have driven millions from their homes.
Environmental disasters, racist attacks on ethnic minorities, gangs of narco-traffickers tied to state power, proxy wars between rival imperialists and the sharpening economic crisis have made survival nearly impossible in much of the world. 
The hypocritical legal distinction between “asylum-seekers fleeing war or persecution” and “illegal economic migrants” obscures this reality. (See letter from Qatar here ) This distinction has always been cynically political. 
During the Cold War and the civil wars in Central America, the US granted refugee status to Cubans, but never to those fleeing US-backed dictators in Guatemala and El Salvador.  Nor has the US granted refugee status to those who are fleeing the drug lords in Mexico today.
The politics of the current crisis are equally cynical. The bosses of Germany, Sweden and Austria are posing as humanitarian heroes while guaranteeing themselves a source of highly-skilled cheap labor. Only 3% of Syrian refugees, often young adults with middle-class education and economic resources, have made the journey to Europe. 

Using the Refugee Crisis to Promote War

Most cynical are the calls in the ruling-class media for increased military action in Syria supposedly to resolve this crisis at its source. The French government has threatened air-strikes.  The New York Times is trumpeting the increased Russian military aid to the Syrian government.
Obama has said “Assad must go.” But his administration has worked to calm tensions with Iran (which supports Assad) as part of the pivot to Asia. The Syrian refugee crisis provides support for those who want a more aggressive Middle-East policy. We can’t predict how this will work out in the short run. 
We do know that inter-imperialist rivalry leads to world war and the masses of workers will pay the price. But the masses, won to communist ideas and with guns in our hands, will put an end to this murderous system.
Millions are outraged at the suffering of our class brothers and sisters.  Tens of thousands are trying to help them.  We must take on more urgently the work of mobilizing them for communism. 
The deepening contradictions of global capitalism have created a crisis which can only be resolved by communist revolution. There are no national boundaries in the fight for a communist world, where we will work for human need and not for profit—where the international working class will be the human race.

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