INGEN ER ILLEGAL! Sydafrikas venstrefløj mobilise

Icon_article Udgivet: Tuesday 27 May 2008 16:39 af Autonom Info Service

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Phansi Xenophobia! Phansi! Anti-racistiske slogans og de gamle anti-apartheidsange fyldte Johannesburgs gader, da omkring 5000 mennesker demonstrerede for soldaritet med immigranterne, som i de sidste uger har været mål for racistiske overgreb i ghettoerne. Her kom det til voldsomme konflikter, hvor fattige sydafrikanere angreb fattige arbejdere fra Mocambique, Angola, etc. i konkurrencekampen om prekære jobs...

Demonstrationen blev organiseret af Anti-privatiseringsforum – APF samt af forskellige venstrefløjsgrupper, fagforeninger og immigrantorganisationer. Ifølge APF opfordrede visse kredse i regeringspartiet ANC til at undlade at deltage i de ”venstreradikales” demonstration. På trods af denne holdning deltog ministeren for offentlig service, som er medlem af ANC, i demonstrationen. Nogle busser med demonstrationsdeltagere fra forskellige townships blev af racister stoppet på vejen ud af ghettoerne og kunne derfor ikke deltage i demonstrationen. På vejen gennem Johannesburgs immigrantkvartér blev demonstrationen hilst af beboerne. En del sluttede op om demonstrationen. Udbredt racisme Ifølge Southern Africa Migration Project (SAMP) findes der idag blandt alle samfundslag i Sydafrika et massivt racistisk had mod fattige immigranter. Mest synligt udleves dette had i de fattiges bykvartérer. Den væsentligste grund er den vedvarende sociale krise, som forårsager en uhyrlig konkurrence om lønarbejde og boliger. Konfliktens rødder må søges i såvel den tidligere apartheidpolitik og i den aktuelle neoliberalistiske politik, som føres af ANC-regeringen. Svækket venstrefløj For tiden findes der ingen venstrefløjskraft i Sydafrika, som er istand til at vende den racistiske voldsbølge til en fælles anti-kapitalistisk modstand mod de politiske og økonomiske magthavere. Venstrefløjen har heller ikke den nødvendige mobiliseringskraft til at kunne organisere forsvarsstrukturer mod de racistiske voldsorgier i ghettoerne. Den anti-racistiske demonstration i Johannesburg er det første konkrete forsøg på aktivt at blande sig i begivenhederne. Sydafrikas sociale bevægelser De fattiges sociale bevægelse fra den sydafrikanske havneby Durban ”Abahlali baseMjondolo” (ABM) forsøger i en analyse om den aktuelle racistiske vold at påvise statens, politiets og myndighedernes medansvar herfor. ABM er i de sidste år vokset til en vigtig socialrevolutionær bevægelse i Durban. Idag har de fleste storbyer sådanne selvorganiserede, autonome bevægelser. De kan mobilisere flere tusinde mennesker mod f.eks. bolignød og mod myndighedernes tvangsudsættelser af folk fra deres boliger pga. manglende huslejebetaling. Flere af disse bevægelser har en politisk venstreradikal baggrund. ABM: Statement on the Xenophobic Attacks in Johannesburg http://www.abahlali.org/node/3582 Southern Africa Migration Project (SAMP) http://www.queensu.ca/samp/ Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF) http://www.zabalaza.net/leaflets&talks/soli_cosatu_zim_xeno.htm Common Statement from different left wing organisations http://www.tac.org.za/community/files/StatementOnXenophobicAttacksByCTGroups.pdf _________________________________________ MARCH AGAINST XENOPHOBIA AND HATE By Social Movements Indaba, 21. May 2008 The SMI is mobilising social movements, immigrant communities, NGOs, unions, concerned residents from poor areas around the province for a march this Saturday, 24th of May. The march will gather at Marks Park (Empire and Hospital Road) from 9a.m., proceed through Hillbrow and stop at the Departments of Home Affairs and Housing before ending at the Library Gardens. The message marchers will be conveying is that our struggle is common and knows no borders. Everyone who wants to make their voices heard should join us – our struggle knows no borders. The Social Movements Indaba (SMI) – a co-ordinating national body of social movements, civil society and activist organisations – is organising with its affiliated organisations and immigrant communities to roll back the groundswell of xenophobia. In the years since its formation in 2002, the SMI has linked organisations of the poor in struggle for basic services, international solidarity and against police repression. At its last national meeting in December in Cape Town, the SMI identified xenophobia as a pervasive problem in communities and undertook to campaign against hatred of foreigners. Now that the crisis of hate crime is no longer foreboding and is terrifyingly HERE, there is no time to stall and wish we were better prepared. We are without hesitation committed to the struggles for social justice, internationalism and solidarity with all repressed people. While the police have been deployed to try keep a lid on the pressure that has boiled over, this is no solution to the safety and security of all. As a xenophobic force in Johannesburg pre-existing the outbreak of violence, the police cannot be trusted to be more than the brute barrier between perpetrators and their targeted victims. The South African Police Services and Johannesburg Metro Police harass immigrants to solicit bribes as a matter of practice. Calling on the police to 'do their work' as president Thabo Mbeki and his government have done does not, therefore, address the issues of safety and security amongst immigrant communities. The refugee communities do not trust the police as impartial arbiters of the conflict. The police conducted a brutal raid on the Central Methodist Church on the 31st of January 2008 under the pretext of crime prevention. Criminalisation of immigrants is a smokescreen for deportation and bribery that the police has not cleared. Long-lasting safety and security for all does not include deportation of foreign nationals, whether voluntary or not. Xenophobia's origins lie within the conditions of poverty in which the majority of South Africans live. Immigrants have been targeted for their ethnic difference and for their very similarity with their persecutors. Seen as competitors for scarce jobs and housing, south Africans have misdirected their anger at conditions of poverty that are unchanging. Their fellow brothers and sisters who are enduring the same cannot be responsible for what the economic and political system has created. While we struggle for a change to the neo-liberal capitalist system that has created this reality, rearguard struggles for safety and security of immigrants in the country must continue. The SMI gives thanks for those humanitarian organisations, emergency services and churches that are trying to stem the tide of bloodletting and forced removals. We will organize against the creation of refugee camps and work towards the reintegration of immigrants in our communities. In working to recover our common humanity and restore calm, delegations from the SMI are meeting with community-based organisations in Alex and the inner city, and as the programme of action to roll-back the hate unfolds, the SMI will be going further afield to speak to affected communities. — No one is illegal —

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