NAR for the Communist Liberation // Communist Liberation youth // Greece
Parti Ouvrier Independent// France
Partido Obrero Socialista Internacionalista// Spain
Kοινή Διακήρυξη του ΝΑΡ και της νΚΑ με τις οργανώσεις Parti Ouvrier Independent (Γαλλία) και Partido Obrero Socialist Internacionalista (Ισπανία)
The Mediterranean will not become a sea of death! Against Fortress Europe!
A year has passed since the massacre of refugees at the fence in Melilla and the recent shipwrecks in Pylos and the Canary Islands fill us with anger again. We are shocked but also outraged by the new crimes of the European Union, the Greek and Spanish authorities against refugees and immigrants from Africa and Asia. A year ago, dozens of activists signed a petition condemning the politics of racism and Fortress Europe while demonstrating against the NATO summit in Madrid. The deadly shipwrecks in the Mediterranean and the Canary islands shows the whole world that the policy that begins with imperialist interventions, the exploitation of the peoples of Africa and Asia by the European and U.S capital and the powerful states of the world ends with the murders and drowning of the poor and desperate people at European land and sea borders.
It is a murderous and exploitative policy that dates back many centuries ago but is being carried out nowadays by the modern capitalist states which pretend to be the guardians of humanism and democracy. The dominance of the powerful states of Europe and the rest of the world is based on the appropriation of the resources of the poor states of Africa and Asia. For oil, diamonds, precious metals and rare earths there are no borders. Borders do exist exclusively for the poor, the victims of capitalist exploitation and wars.
The anti-immigration policy of the European Union, the bilateral agreements of the E.U. with Turkey, Libya, Morocco which create prison camps for refugees, the policy of push-backs and building fences, in short the policy of “Fortress Europe” is responsible for thousands of drownings, deaths, rapes and tortures every year. This is a murderous policy. The workers, the young people, the great social majority of the European peoples must fight against murderous capitalism, the criminal and racist European Union and the respective governments of the member states and of those states that cooperate in the implementation of these policies.
We stand in solidarity with refugees and immigrants. We demand open borders and free movement for refugees and the poor, for the working class. Down with the Common European Asylum Policy. We demand asylum and papers for all refugees!
Let’s fight for an end to capitalist wars and interventions by the powerful states
Let the Mediterranean become a sea of friendship and solidarity. The people living in the Mediterranean basin have nothing to separate.
Down with the fences in Melilla, Ceuta and Evros river!
Let’s fight for the common interests of the working class and the oppressed. Joint struggles of locals – refugees/immigrants! Solidarity is our weapon!
