15.03.2025
Defend Refugee & Immigrant Rights: Stop Deportation & Detention, By Any Means Necessary
To defeat Racism & Fascism we must fight for Free Movement & Open Borders
Keir Starmer is the Agent of Imperialism – he must Resign or be Removed
Capitalism is in its Death Throes and Destroying the World – A new party of action must end its rule and establish a Socialist Society & Economy
Victory to the Palestinian Struggle
LABOUR MPs who are alarmed by Starmer’s policies must recognise that their public silence allows him to normalize fascism, genocide and cut aid & welfare to fund warfare. They must speak out, demand his resignation, vote against his policies, and organise resistance in their constituencies and local parties.
MASS MIGRATION is an international rebellion against the impact of Imperialism: Mass Poverty, Super-Exploitation, Escalating Wars, Despotism, the Effects of Global Heating & Environmental Destruction, and Oppression & Persecution based on Sex, Sexuality, Ethnic Identity and Religion.
OPEN THE BORDERS: Freedom of Movement is a Basic Human Right – Opening the Borders is what refugees are doing every day, in order to resolve real, material problems in their lives and find safety and freedom. Starmer knows what they are escaping from. He detains & deports them because he is an imperialist, and imperialism needs to maintain that poverty, exploitation and tyranny.
The Trump Effect
Donald Trump is imposing a fascist regime on America, the world’s richest economy with the most powerful armed forces. It is the most significant victory for fascism since the end of World War Two. Trump still has to consolidate his power, however, and he faces growing resistance, mainly from youth and immigrant communities. MFJ’s sister organisation in America (BAMN) is playing a leading role in building that resistance.
However, we are already seeing the international impacts of the fascist takeover of American government: Trump has created panic in the governments and ruling classes of the western imperialist powers and the Arab World. Britain and the major countries of the European Union (EU) are trying in vain to persuade Trump to maintain America’s longstanding role as leader of the western imperialist powers in NATO. All they are achieving is the normalisation of fascism.
‘Democratic’ politicians normalise fascism: the case of Israel
Israel today is a fascist state, it is based on ethnic nationalism and the forced exclusion, removal and genocide of the Palestinian people, and has a political system intertwined with the military. The education system, the media and even the army function as systems of indoctrination. And the Settler Movement in the West Bank provides the Zionist state with a free-lance terrorist force whose atrocities are not directly attributable to the government.
That is the system fascism aims for. It is the system Trump intends to establish in America. Yet supposedly democratic governments in the West have been funding and arming Israeli fascism for years and decades. They have driven Israel towards fascism to serve their imperialist need for a dependable, heavily armed, white ally to serve their interests in the Middle East. When the Zionists go ‘too far’ and provoke international outrage, those ‘civilised’ western imperialists feed Israel’s need for more weapons – and arrest, beat and imprison protesters.
Imperialism in crisis & war
Imperialism is the domination and exploitation of the world by the giant capitalist corporations and banks, based in a small number of powerful countries. From the end of World War Two until the 1990s, the US was the dominant power in a small group of imperialist countries in Western Europe plus Japan & Canada. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the restoration of capitalism from eastern Europe all the way to China led to the emergence of two new imperialist capitalist powers, China & Russia. Western Imperialism’s biggest victory – a totally capitalist world – became a disaster: a new age of inter-imperialist conflict. The period from the early 1990s has been an age of ‘forever’ wars, proxy-wars, civil wars, ethnic cleansing and genocide. Even before this period, the global capitalist economy had lurched from crisis to crisis. The ‘golden age’ of relative prosperity from the late 1940s to the late 1960s has never returned. Instead, the imperialists and capitalists have attacked the rights and living standards of poor people and poor countries, in largely unsuccessful attempts to increase growth and profits. More and more wealth is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.
The turn to Fascism
That situation is creating greater resistance by the poor, oppressed and exploited – and more extreme attempts at oppression by the ruling classes. That is the story – the heroic story – of the Palestinian resistance and the international anti-war movement in solidarity with Palestine, against our own governments.
This, and other broadly similar conflicts, foster the growth of fascism, in two ways. Firstly, the imperialists turn to authoritarianism & dictatorship to defeat the resistance. Secondly, the economic situation leaves an ‘in-between’ section of the population that is demoralised and believes it is losing its former status. Fascism uses their grievances and prejudices to mobilise them in elections or on the streets.
Last summer’s race riots took place north of England towns that lost their industries. They were mobilised by fascist networks – and by Starmer’s anti-immigrant Labour election campaign a few weeks earlier. Nigel Farage used the grievances & prejudices of elderly white people, many of them retirees or invalids, to win in a former seaside resort in Essex that had seen better days.
The Labour government celebrates immigrant bashing
Earlier this year the Labour Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, announced a further racist, inhuman attack on refugees who entered Britain without a visa (i.e. those who were so desperate and so determined that they risked their lives to cross the Channel in small, overcrowded boats). Even if they overcome all the obstacles put in their way and make successful claims for asylum in Britain, they will never be able to apply for British citizenship.
The week beginning Monday 10th February was national immigrant-bashing week for Starmer & Cooper. The Home Office flooded the media with photos & videos of its raids on nail bars, garages etc and the arrests of undocumented workers – not as a rescue operation for people trapped in super-exploitation and slavery, but as a fast-track to deportation on a charter flight. The deportations were filmed and widely displayed by the government.
The Labour government has taken the ‘hostile environment’ policy to new extremes. In less than eight months following the general election there were 38% more raids on workplaces than the Tories had done in the twelve months before the election. The number of immigration arrests in January was 75% higher than in January last year – from 352 to 609 – and 16,400 people were deported between the July election and February this year.
These policies are normalising fascism. Our movement must defend refugees and immigrants and stop detention and deportations by any means necessary.
The way ahead
Our principal reason for hope is the strength of our mass movements and the connections between them. A secondary reason is that public opinion still appears to be more liberal or progressive than the politicians, and on many issues it is further to their Left.
However, we have to reckon with the speed with which the Labour government is moving to the right, with a worsening economic situation, and a world-wide growth of fascism.
That is why the Movement for Justice is pressing for the creation of a new party of action. The obvious basis for such a party lies in the current mass movements and such new ones as are created in response to government attacks. Not just a supportive relationship between a number of campaigns on separate issues, but a single organisation uniting all the issues and struggles, that builds action on all fronts and fights by any means necessary.
It definitely cannot be an attempt to recreate the ‘good old Labour Party’ that never was: that would be even more absurd than dreams of bringing back the Mammoth or the Dodo; at least they did exist once, the Labour Party and every Labour government have always defended imperialism.
We are not in the age of Parliamentary Democracy anymore. It is simply not democratic anymore and it is not working for the majority of working class, poor, oppressed and struggling middle class people. Most of us did not vote in the last election because we did not see the point. We have to build the sort of party all of us can turn to and rely on because it actually leads the fights for equality and democracy.
To conclude. The party we propose can score many victories against imperialism if we really fight to win, but capitalism is incurable. It is destroying far more than it creates; it has proved its inability to solve a single one of the plague of destructive problems it has created. Humanity can’t afford to run this experiment any longer.
Our central objective has to be putting an end to imperialism and capitalism. It has to be replaced by a socialist society and socialist economy, with public ownership of the means of production and distribution that will be organised to meet the needs of humanity, not to amass profit for a few.
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