WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, UCL AL #337 - International, State Racism: Murderous Security Policies (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr) [machine translation]

 Despite the number of dead migrants in the Mediterranean, the far-right Italian

government is sticking to its racist and isolationist positions. First assessment
of the exercise of fascist power. ---- On Sunday February 26, 2023, a migrant
ship was shipwrecked on the Italian coast, causing at least 69 deaths of Afghan,
Syrian, Pakistani, Tunisian or Palestinian origin, fleeing war, dictatorship,
imperialism or environmental disasters. Frontex, Italy, the European Union : all
the actors who police the gates of Europe pass the buck while accusing the
smugglers. ---- However, the Italian fascist power has never made a secret of
having as a priority to reduce access to national soil by all possible security
means: lawsuit against the mayors of the south of the country who welcome
migrants, ban on landing in Italian ports for humanitarian ships and since
January 2, decree obliging the latter to carry out only one rescue at a time,
regardless of the urgency of the situation.

Giorgia Meloni's facade of compassion should not hide the reality of a racist,
isolationist and murderous policy that is at the heart of the political project
of the far right. After all, what are the lives of dozens of people worth in the
face of a security discourse that allowed the ruling alliance to win the two most
important regions of the country in by-elections?

The other European states, France in the lead, were indignant at this migration
crisis. Not to defend the dead and the dead, but because Italy refuses to apply
the Dublin directives which require them to take care of asylum seekers arriving
in the EU via its territory. Here again, no compassion, but a desire of the
countries of northern Europe to discharge their role of reception for the benefit
of the Mediterranean countries. The United Kingdom has just announced a bill
along the same lines, while in France the Darmanin law strengthens chosen
immigration and announces a new boom in detention centres.

Laws are getting tougher everywhere else in Europe
Faced with the theories promoted by the extreme right of the "Great Replacement"
and a "migratory invasion", the closure of the country and the death of
foreigners and foreigners appears as a justified protective measure. According to
the Meloni government, which promotes the Italian birth rate (to the detriment of
women's rights) as an alternative to immigration to respond to the country's
structural economic crisis, these deaths would be a message sent to proletarians
around the world to encourage them not to not try to come and settle in Italy.

Complaining about the effects without addressing the real causes of migration,
which are capitalism and imperialism, erecting walls to hide misery and death,
this is the murderous recipe of the far right in power. This is why we must fight
relentlessly, against the Darmanin law, against fascism and for international
solidarity!

Hugo (UCL Montreuil)

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Racisme-d-Etat-Des-politiques-securitaires-meurtrieres
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S  N E W S  S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
Send news reports to A-infos-en mailing list
A-infos-en@ainfos.ca