WFDY has come to know with shock and indignation that the French President (Nicolas Sarkozy) has proposed several xenophobic and racist measures, as part of the strategy that will lead the country to a “national war”.The several measures announced, such as the loss of French nationality for the French “with foreign origins” if they have ever attacked a policeman and destruction of half of the Rom illegal camps within 3 months, are terrifying and establish a clear link with the darker period of this country the Collaborator and fascist government of 1939-1945.

Roms who are not in a regular situation are hunted, being them many of them have expelled to Romania by charters or “invited to leave” in exchange of a compensation. The presidential will of quick expulsions is fulfilling.

WFDY draws attention to the fact that, alongside with these measures, Sarkozy’s administration is taking ahead counter-reforms that clearly aim to destroy the rights of workers and youth, in line with the general measures followed by the European Union members’ Governments, and that are being rejected massive demonstrations of the French people.

As proof of our anti-imperialist thesis, that racism is nothing but a tool of the system to divide the workers to better rule and exploit them, these measures are being justified by the French Government as an initiative to eradicate the source of the problems of the French people: the foreigners.

These racist measures don’t acknowledge the vital contribution of the immigrants to the development of France and don’t recognize that the origin of the problems with the immigrants have a social origin, thereby being the state’s responsibility to solve them by eradicating poverty, exploitation and human trafficking.
WFDY is sure that the cause for the problems of the peoples, in France as everywhere else in the world, is the imperialist domination of the world and that the only measures that can ever answer to the needs and problems of mankind are those taken in a framework of the overthrown of imperialism, as part of an economic, social and political system in favor of the youth and peoples.

We call upon all our member and friend organizations to support MJCF and the whole progressive movement of France in the struggle against the attacks of the French youth and people, calling your attention to the important demonstration of September 04, as well as to continue the struggle against imperialism in their own countries.

No human being is illegal!

The day of March 21 was declared as the International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination by the UN after the racist murder of tens demonstrators in South Africa in the year 1960.

Today, after 49 years, the world still lives many cases of racism and discrimination although many achievements occurred during the past decades. The Apartheid regime of discrimination collapsed under the big struggles of the people of South Africa and the international solidarity with them. Hundreds of millions of people got the right to vote after deprivation of this basic right due to color or religious or ethnic discriminations.

But we still see nowadays other forms of discrimination and a developing trend of xenophobia and hatred against foreigners in many regions of the world. Especially in Europe, the right wing forces are spreading the ideas of hatred and separation against foreigners and against progressive ideas. They are pushing the workers and the youth to blame the foreign workers for losing their jobs instead of revealing the responsibility of capitalism and national governments for economic problems and unemployment in their countries.

At the same time, in the same countries immigrants are not granted visas or work permits, becoming an easy target for human traffic and intense exploitation (and even slavery at times). It is remarkable that these workers, many of them youngsters, are indeed a crucial labor force in for most of the hosting countries and, if they were legal, its contribution for the public systems of Social Insurance would be more than enough to make most of these systems economically viable.

However, imperialism prefers to treat these people as slaves, with no rights, having high profits and excuses to increase the fear and division atmosphere among the youth and workers of many countries.

After 9/11 more hatred against Arabs and Islam spread in the United States and many regions in Europe, known as “Islamophobia” in a new form of separation between people and to create an illusive enemy to keep wars igniting around the world and feeding big-armed industries.

Also the wall of separation in Palestine and the Zionist policies of ethnic cleansing and settlement expansion form a big threat for the lives of millions of people whose only crime is that they are Palestinians.

Today, the world is once again called to struggle against all forms of racial, ethnic and religious division that are used as tools for separation and wars, and for more exploitation.

In this significant day, WFDY calls upon all its member and friend organizations to work for the elimination of discrimination and express international solidarity that crosses all borders of separation to be united in our struggles for our rights, against imperialism.