"The Socialist Equality Party (US) appeals to US citizen workers: Defend your immigrant brothers and sisters from state violence! Don’t drink the nationalist poison—the migrant caravan’s slogan “we are international workers” is your slogan, too! "
This is the centuries old position of HUMANITY going back to the Great French Revolution of 1789 : " Liberty , Equality , Fraternity ! "
But what CONCRETE demands can socialist parties and organizations make here while they lack effective political power ?
Is it really naïve to raise the United Nations banner here ?
It seems that the nation state would have to be abolished FIRST before OPEN BORDERS can become a reality .
It is indeed patriotic rubbish to think that the United States as a super power is on a higher moral level ( so EXCEPTIONAL ) than its growing lists of enemies .
Remember how WE stole land from Mexico in a war that outraged President Abraham Lincoln. Sacred national borders ? Since when ?
[ " Unlike Lincoln, President Polk supported going to war with Mexico. One of the spoils of this 22-month conflict was the American acquisition of land that eventually became the states of California, Nevada, and Utah. The U.S. also acquired portions of what would later become Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming. This land acquisition through war became known as Manifest Destiny. The U.S. became swept up in it, the president was very popular, and generals Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor– who became the twelfth president of the United States in 1848– became celebrated war heroes. "]
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[ " Unlike Lincoln, President Polk supported going to war with Mexico. One of the spoils of this 22-month conflict was the American acquisition of land that eventually became the states of California, Nevada, and Utah. The U.S. also acquired portions of what would later become Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming. This land acquisition through war became known as Manifest Destiny. The U.S. became swept up in it, the president was very popular, and generals Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor– who became the twelfth president of the United States in 1848– became celebrated war heroes. "]