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Some pieces on capitalism and immigration controls. Unfortunately, a lot of leftists in NZ still don’t support the right of workers to free movement. NZ nationalism is very strong on the left here and it is a major obstacle to a genuinely internationalist consciousness. NZ’s immigration controls – not in workers’ interests: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/new-zealand%E2%80%99s-immigration-controls-%E2%80%93-not-in-workers%E2%80%99-interests-%C2%A0/ Immigration controls necessarily imply the policing of them and inevitably stuff like dawn raids, deportations of people who belong to the ‘wrong’ class and have the ‘wrong’ skin colour. Here’s a piece on NZ immigration controls and the persecution of Samoans: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/depriving-samoans-of-immigration-and-citizenship-rights/ And on a more general/global theme, there’s Capitalism, Third World poverty and migration: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/capitalism-third-world-poverty-and-migration/ Phil _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
