21 of March: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Mobilization is the only way to stop the racists and expose the cynics.
For a world without borders, with full democratic and social rights for everyone.
International Socialist League
He 21 March is recognized as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. It was proclaimed as such by the General Assembly of the United Nations. The date remembers an event that occurred in 1960 in the southern Transvaal: the Sharpeville Massacre perpetrated against demonstrators protesting the application of Apartheid in South Africa. That day, Police opened fire on peaceful anti-government demonstration, murdering 69 black people, among whom were women and children. a few days later, The police repression was followed by the government's declaration of a state of emergency with the arrest of 11.727 people and the banning of anti-racist organizations.
As with other notable dates, like himInternational Migrant Day, the UN displays them with a cynical formality. Publish statements and launch hashtags to reproduce on social networks, with the supposed purpose of“foster a global culture of tolerance, equality, anti-discrimination, against racial prejudice, intolerant attitudes and for equal rights”. beyond words, These are the attitudes that allow, promoted and/or endorsed by the leaders of the international organization, of the countries that comprise it and the"Advanced democracies".
With youth and women on the front line, are the mobilizations, demonstrations, It is the protests and actions for equal rights that fill the demands against discrimination and racism with content.. Themurders and police violence in the United States They provoked gigantic mobilizations and coined a phrase that garnered active solidarity throughout the world.: “Black Lives Matter”.
The people are those who reject the cynicism of their rulers. The senior officials of the European Union and the officials who are members of the Club fill their mouths with speeches against racial discrimination, while their decisions provokedeath of thousands of people in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, which will be deepened with the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum. After plundering the wealth of African countries for centuries, They militarily shield their borders so that those who escape wars, of political persecutions, of hunger and extreme misery, They cannot seek a better life in the Old Continent. Those who achieve it by risking their lives, They are immediately deported to their countries of origin, that is to say, to the horror from which they escape or are locked up in improvised refuge camps until their subsequent deportation.
People who still manage to remain in a country are institutionally persecuted for not having papers and discriminated against because of the color of their skin., while they look for food in the containers of big cities. Yes they get some work, They are immersed in job and social precariousness. in the field, Migrant women suffer abuse and aggression that they cannot even report. Temporary workers endure conditions ofsemiesclavitud while cases of abandoned people are repeated when they become ill or havework accidents and they die. In different regions, precariousness is growing“chabolas” O“emergency villages” in which poor people from different countries are forced to live while being super-exploited. According to humanitarian NGOs, only in Andalusia there is 119 settlements, 40 in the province of Huelva and 79 in Almeria, in those who live around 13.000 people.
Far-right political expressions are openly xenophobic. Take Donald Trump in the United States as an example., Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Vox in the Spanish State, Golden Dawn in Greece, the fachos of Poland, Hungary, Italy and other countries. It is impossible not to mention the discrimination and abuses suffered by the oppressed peoples of theOccidental Sahara and Palestine, at the hands of regimes that violate human rights - with the complicity of the UN -, such as those that exist in the Kingdom of Morocco and in the Zionist State of Israel or the one thatSyrian refugees suffer with the regimes of Greece and Türkiye as executioners.
Social democratic organizations, Center-left and reformists regularly express themselves against racism, but they do it from a formal position and in many cases electoral since, They do not promote street mobilization against this scourge and the measures they adopt are of limited usefulness or directly discriminatory., although they are always camouflaged behind speechesthe arc of investiture partners began to turn their backs on some important issues and discontent increases, how he does it"Progressive coalition government" PSOE-Unidas Podemos in the Spanish State. Immigration laws, The institutions of confinement and the security forces provide bourgeois governments with the legal and repressive infrastructure necessary for their actions that violate the most basic human rights..
With the pandemic and the crisis of the capitalist economy, displays of hatred have spread, violence and discriminationthe most vulnerable, mostly poor people of different nationalities from Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. Against this, There are also massive popular mobilizations, solidarity and fight against the manifestations that the monster of discrimination acquires wherever it rears its head, where it seeks to prevent the recognition of basic democratic and social rights, of legality, living place, education, job, gender, political expression or freedom.
The nonsense and mechanisms of imperialist capitalism reach the point of doing everything in their power to pit poor against poor.. They act on the working class and the middle sectors to instill in them that the origin of all their suffering is in the“different ones that come from outside”. This is how Mexicans also point out and discriminate, Venezuelans, Hondurans, Bolivians or any other nationality who in any region of the world want a better life for themselves and their families.
From SOL and the International Socialist League we say: No person is illegal: papers for everyone, annulment of discriminatory laws, active combat against racism and racial discrimination, equal human rights, democratic and social for everyone, and immediate closure of all Foreigners Internment Centers. Because, It is 21 March we are in solidarity with the anti-discriminatory and anti-racist actions that are carried out in different countries. It is a reactionary utopia to believe that capitalism can be reformed, when the only thing it does is worsen the living conditions of the great popular majority, That is why we must organize to defeat this unjust system that has discrimination and racism as a registered trademark of origin.. We fight for a world without borders, without discrimination racial, social or gender, knowing that it can only be achieved in its entirety with a completely different model: socialism with democracy.
