ICMLPO Europe: Communiqué on the border "crisis" in Poland

Below is a November statement from the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations in Europe on the border/migration crisis involving three members of the EU, Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia, and Belarus.  The EU accuses Belarus of luring people from Iraq and elsewhere who seek to immigrate to the EU into the country and then pushing them across the border into EU member states, to retaliate against the EU for supporting the overthrow of the Belarusian government.  The migrants would probably prefer to settle in a country such as Germany rather than Poland.  Media such as the BBC talked about migrants being inhumanely or violently treated by Belarus and wandering in Polish border forests without adequate gear for the cold, food, or medical attention and later migrants were stuck in camps along the border, not being allowed to enter Poland or re-enter Belarus.  The EU talks about the rights of migrants, but supports its members in forcefully keeping migrants out and not allowing them to present their case for asylum.  On the other side of Europe there is a dispute between the UK and France over migration across the English Channel into the UK, often resulting in death as unseaworthy boats provided by smugglers sink, as also happens in the Mediterranean Sea as people try to reach EU members Italy and Greece [as well as the Republic of Malta, south of Sicily and also an EU member].  

It could be noted that the Biden administration recently reinstated the Trump policy requiring would be immigrants to wait in Mexico and it never ended other policies.  The US funnels undocumented immigrants into the desert and criminalizes the offer of aid, such as water or transportation, and any supplies found by the Border Patrol are destroyed, resulting in a large death toll.  EU countries have also tried to prevent humanitarian aid to migrants, including in Poland.  The US government under Obama and Biden supported the 2009 coup in Honduras and US meddling in Haiti and then they act surprised when corruption, violence, economic problems exascerbated by the US, and possibly climate change cause mass migration northward.  Despite the example of Honduras Biden is still trying to the overthrow the governments of Nicaragua, Cuba, and Venezuela and using economic warfare to make life difficult for the people.  Australia also has a history of using harsh measures against unauthorized migrants.  It could be asked what will be done if or when climate change causes millions to migrate within and between countries as the climate becomes intolerable and low-lying areas are inundated by the ocean?  [See also:   www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/03/let-them-drown-let-them-freeze-to-death-just-keep-them-out/ ]

This month another European border crisis is being created, as the EU and USA accuse Russia of threatening to attack Ukraine, which borders Russia and Belarus and had its government overthrown under Obama and Biden.  On the other hand the mainstream media says it is totally baseless to consider military manuevers by the US and its allies on the borders of DPR Korea, China, Russia, etc. as threatening or intimidating those countries.

The ICMLPO statement was originally posted in English:  cipoml.net/en/?p=302 and in Turkish at:  www.cipoml.net/tr/?p=474

ICMLPO Europe: Communiqué on the border "crisis" in Poland  

 

Stop using migrants as sacrificial pawns for the interests of the ruling class!  

The migration crisis on the border between Belarus and Poland is in the public spotlight.  

Workers and peoples are witnessing the dramatic conditions of thousands of migrants coming mainly from the Middle East, trapped in the cold, between a barbed wire fence and the armed forces on the same border of the two countries, while international tension grows.  

Poland and the EU are accusing Belarus of sending in an intentional and organized form migrants in retaliation for sanctions, while Belarus is denying such charges and is threatening to cut off Russian gas supplies to the EU countries.  

It is clear that immigrants are victims of the "geopolitical" disputes between Belarus and Russia, on the one hand, and Poland and the EU, on the other.  

No bourgeois power cares about the people fleeing their countries to achieve a better life, devastated by decades of imperialist policies, aggression, oppression and misery.  

Poland's government, after refusing for a year to redistribute immigrants arriving to Italy, Greece, Spain, etc., has fenced off its border, even though it is a member of the EU, "defender of freedom and democracy."  

The imperialist leaders of the EU are now expressing solidarity with Morawiecki [Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish Prime Minister from the Law and Justice Party], after having accused him for months of trampling on the "rule of law" in Poland and extending sanctions to Belarus.  

These hypocritical evildoers are the same ones who paid Erdogan to stop migration to Europe; who put pressure on countries in Africa and the Middle East to take similar measures; who did nothing to deal with a problem that had been known for months.  

The facts confirm that bourgeois freedoms and human rights are just words; that in practice all the principles touted by the ruling class are thrown overboard.  

This is also true for Belarus and Russia, which not only take into account their own bourgeois-state interests in rivalry and competition with the Western imperialist powers, but also against the workers and oppressed peoples.  

The European members of the ICMLPO:  

• Denounce the repressive actions of the Armed Forces and the violence of the State against migrants, which are acts of aggression against the workers and peoples of the world and increase the danger of war.  
• Call on the workers and peoples to raise their voices against the reactionary, provocative and warmongering policy of the bourgeoisie, and to stand in solidarity with the immigrants, who have the right to be assisted and accepted in the EU.  
• Condemn the imperialist and capitalist states as responsible for the drama on the border between Belarus and Poland, as well as in the Mediterranean Sea, in the Balkans and on other migratory routes.  

The cause of the problems affecting humanity is the capitalist-imperialist system, and the solution can only come from the revolutionary establishment of a new and superior social order: socialism!  

ICMLPO Europe