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Call for an International Day of Mobilization

Thursday 12 May 2016

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YES TO THE UNCONDITIONAL RECEPTION OF MIGRANTS NO TO THEIR DEPORTATION TO THE ERDOGAN ’S FASCIST TURKEY

CALL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL DAY OF MOBILIZATION ON SATURDAY MAY 21 ST

After handing over the migrants to smugglers’ business and making Greece a trap for refugees, by stubbornly refusing to let them in to its territory through legal routes and by ratifying the sealing of the route across the Balkans, the European Union gets involved today into a true shameful barter.

The agreement signed between the EU and Turkey means the return in masse to Turkey of all the migrants who have landed in the Greek Islands in the worst conditions and at the risk of their lives through the Aegean route and who, as a result of a botched inquiry, are denied the asylum right protection.

Is Turkey a "safe country" ? It’s highly questionable, for Turkey is devoid of a system of protection for refugees, which means that they can’ t rely on any guarantee not to be sent back to a third persecution practicing country, as were hundreds of Syrians expelled towards war areas these last weeks.

Moreover, the selection between good and bad migrants is something shameful : not only because the regions " at risk " are changing and get determined according to the interests of Europe, but also because it seems to us unfair to oppose " areas of conflicts " and areas of poverty, generated by the economic wars conducted by imperialist powers, which acknowledge and support dictatorships securing their markets and interests.

And besides spectacular expulsions, more insidious tools are available to carry out that selection according to the labour needs and to urge the migrants to leave on their own. The policies consisting in keeping them held again and again, during several months or even several years in the " hot spots " at the borders of Europe or in closed reception centers inside the country, in which they have to suffer violence, torture, permanent humiliations and lack of access to healthcare, are as many elements of the militarization of our societies and of the tightening up of the Police State. And the crowds of permanent irregular migrants thus generated are easy preys to all kinds of business (labour and sex exploitation, mafias, and so on...).

In that flight forward of xenophobic selfishness, a second reason of shame stands out : in order to achieve its ends, Europe agrees to deal with a country, that openly flouts the most fundamental individual and collective liberties, is at war against its own peoples , and to entrust it with the fate of refugees.

Meanwhile EU is about to pay billions of euros to Turkey as the price of the selection and internment in camps of the refugees, it covers the violent acts perpetrated onto the opponents while keeping a guilty silence about the atrocities of the Turkish regime. Everyone knows the bombings and slaughters endured by the Kurds. Everyone is aware now that the press of opposition is absolutely gagged and that the purge of the universities and of the judicial authorities is under way.

And EU gives 6 billions of euros to a state known for arming the djihadists, whereas it is going on diffusing everywhere the nauseous assimilation between terrorism and migrations ? They dangerously take the piss out of us when upholding that universal xenophobia.

Supposed to dissuade the migrants from heading to Greece, that agreement has already provoked the death of several hundreds of migrants near the Egyptian coasts, crossing still more dangerous to avoid Turkey. But the leaders of the "western democracies" prefer gather corpses than welcome the exile. Another way of making the selection ?

THE LIFE OF A MIGRANT OR A KURDISH OPPONENT DOESN’T WEIGH A LOT IN THAT FILTHY HAGGLING…

LET US BREAK THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE RACIST POLICE-STATES ! SELF-DETERMINATION OF PEOPLE AND INDIVIDUALS ! FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT AND FREE SETTLEMENT !