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No Borders is playing into the hands of the far right / BNP

durruti02 | 22.07.2009 20:59 | Migration | Workers' Movements | World

No Borders campaigns are playing into the hands of the far right / BNP



No Borders and the Calais campaign activists are prioritising the rights of people who don't live here, while people who do live here, of many different backgrounds, are struggling.

If these activists were people who had created strong communities where they live, people who looked after their neighbours instead of regarding them as racists, people who had stopped bad housing, cheap labour and all the rest, then maybe supporting migrants in calais and elsewhere might make sense. But they have not, so all this meaningless support, and pride of place on the IndymediaUK features column, just plays into the hands of the BNP.

If you/we have no power where you/we live and work how the hell do you think you/we can help those who are also powerless?

D02


durruti02

Comments

Display the following 28 comments

  1. Anyone... — Fuck the border
  2. response — person
  3. erm... — (A) Sab
  4. Here here! — Ruby
  5. No Borders and the movement — AL
  6. Believing in borders doesn't make me a racist — Not a nationalist or an anarchist
  7. Where do you draw the line with borders (pun unintentional)? — anon
  8. >Believing in borders doesn't make me a racist — Danny
  9. Economic migration was jolly good for blighty after the war — realist
  10. No Borders — Ms Anne Thropy
  11. More emmigrants than immigrants — Danny
  12. Not a nationalist or an anarchist — Harold Hamlet
  13. I support no border actions, but I cringe at the title when the environmentalist — Green syndicalist
  14. Open Borders avoid cheap labour — Unreformed Capitalist Running Dog
  15. "Let's all lobby.." — anon
  16. I support no border actions, but I cringe at the title when the environmentalist — Green syndicalist
  17. Missed the point — Durruti02
  18. What solidarity — durruti02
  19. A sab — Durruti02
  20. Al — Durruti02
  21. Instead of demanding change, be the change you wish to see in the world — realist
  22. just back from calais — just back from calais
  23. "Just got back from Calais", so how did you rush back from Calais by Plane? — realist
  24. last response — just back from calais - a simple description to fill this space
  25. it's incredible... — no nations
  26. universal — Occam
  27. durruti02 is playing into the hands of the far right / BNP — veg@n
  28. Agree with Veg@n — @