Racism, migration and refugees

Imperialism justifies its plunder of whole continents by racism ? the warped concept that the ?white race? is biologically superior to the populations of Africa, India and the Asia-Pacific region.

During the time of colonialism the plundering of whole continents were justified with race biology, which claimed the white race's biological supremacy over the peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin Americas.

The racism of today instead focuses on cultural differences. It constantly tries to prove how patriarchal, undemocratic and superstitious other cultures are, at the same time as they promote the superiority of "the western culture". Despite its different faces, racism has always been a weapon in the hands of the capitalists.

Racism is used today to justify the continued economic dependence of the third world, to erect a barricade around the most developed countries and prevent workers from Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe gaining access to work and housing in the west. Racism is also used to excuse lower pay and conditions for black workers than whites and as a way to divide the working class along racial and national lines.

REVOLUTION fights for:

The abolition of all immigration controls.

Close down all detention camps for asylum seekers and refugees.

Equal rights of citizenship for all, regardless of race, nationality or country of origin.

Scrapping of all racist laws.

Equal pay and conditions for all workers.

Black people and racial minorities' right to self-defence against racist attacks.

Direct action by the working class to disperse fascist and racist terror movements.

Confronting every sign of racism in education, media, the workplace and public services.

The right of racial minorities to organise within the working class movement to identify and confront racism and discrimination.

A multiracial, international movement of the workers and oppressed against global capitalism.

The right of racial minorities to caucus in working class organisations.