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The Internationalist No. 52 May-June 2018 50¢ Drive I.C.E. Out! Shut the Detention Centers! Return the Kids! Let Refugees In! Set Them Free, Let Them Stay! For Workers Action to Stop Deportations Democrats, Republicans – Enemies of Immigrants Build a Revolutionary Workers Party! After a tidal wave of outrage, on June Soon inter-agency squabbles broke out in 20 Donald Trump was forced to make the White House with officials saying they an about-face on his grotesque policy of didn’t have the resources to handle the im- stealing immigrant children from their migrants being arrested in droves under parents. Instead, he issued an executive Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy. order to hold entire families in cages in So five days later, the administration abandoned warehouses and on army bases. backed down again, as the top border con- This only served to intensify the protests. trol official announced that the agency had temporarily stopped handing over immi- grants with children for prosecution. But this didn’t stop the xenophobic president Internationalist photo from once more going on the rampage, threatening to simply throw immigrants out of the country in blatant violation of their right to due process. Meanwhile, the stolen children have not been returned, Internationalist photo thousands of youths are still being jailed, and toddlers are being ordered into court alone for deportation hearings. There must be no illusions that the immigrant-bashing president and his child- snatching Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) have been FULL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS FOR ALL IMMIGRANTS! Internationalist Group stopped. Nor should anyone think that elect- and Revolutionary Internationalist Youth demonstrate outside I.C.E. jail in ing Democrats in November will bring relief New York City, June 21. to the more than 15 million undocumented was built for him by Democrat Obama, who together with black, Latino and other op- June 26 NYC demonstration against immigrants living in fear in the United States, threw a record 8+ million people out of the pressed sectors to mobilize our power Supreme Court decision upholding or to the desperate refugees camped out U.S. during his administration. to wage a class war against the war on Trump ban on immigrants from seven along the border. The monstrous deportation Both capitalist parties are enemies of immigrants. The Internationalist Group predominantly Muslim countries. machine being used by Republican Trump immigrants. It is up to the working class continued on page 3 Defend Syria and Iran Against Imperialist Attack! Regional War Looms in Middle East JUNE 28 – As illusions of “peace” spread and militias that fuel destructive conflicts diately, and within two over the Korean peninsula as a result of a across the greater Middle East.” hours of the announce- vague agreement reached by U.S. presi- Three weeks earlier, on April 14, the ment of the bombing, Internationalist photo dent Donald Trump and North Korean U.S. and its NATO partners Britain and held a protest outside leader Kim Jong Un at a June 12 summit France launched a missile attack on Syria, Trump Tower in Man- in Singapore, tensions are building on the targeting two empty warehouses and Syria’s hattan. other side of Asia. The stage is being set Pharmaceutical and Chemical Industries Re- Then on May 14, for regional war in the Middle East. On search Institute, which produced cancer drugs the U.S. State Depart- May 8, Donald Trump withdrew from the in short supply because of imperialist sanc- ment officially relocat- so-called Iran nuclear deal, making good tions. The attack was billed as a response to ed its embassy in Israel on one of his chief campaign promises an alleged chemical weapons attack on April from Tel Aviv to Jeru- and cementing an alliance with the Zionist 7 by the Syrian government against civilians salem. The process militarists and Saudi war hawks. The hard- in Douma, a suburb of Damascus which was began last December line anti-Iran policy outlined in the U.S. on the verge of being taken back from the as the Trump admin- National Security Strategy (18 December arch-jihadist Jaysh al Islam (Army of Islam). istration recognized 2017) was spelled out at the February 2018 Phony allegations of chemical weapons use Jerusalem as the capi- Munich Security Conference, where U.S. by the regime of Bashar al Assad are cooked tal of Israel, a brazen National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster up by the U.S./NATO imperialists and their provocation against declared that “now is…the time to…coun- proxies in Syria whenever the Assad govern- the Palestinian people, ter Iran’s destabilizing activities, including ment is on the cusp of a significant advance, who also claim Jeru- its development and proliferation of mis- and these recent allegations were no different. salem as their capital, Internationalist contingent at April 15 NYC rally against siles – and its support for terrorist proxies The Internationalist Group mobilized imme- continued on page 2 U.S. /NATO imperialist bombing of Syria. For an Arab/Hebrew Palestinian Workers State in a Socialist Federation of the Middle East to achieve that goal. The very few armed Middle East War... groups that were not jihadists were just continued from page 1 criminal gangs. The so-called “rebels” have and a gift to hard-line Zionist expansionists Reuters no compunctions about committing atroci- who vow to cement Israeli control of Arab ties against any ethnic or religious group East Jerusalem which Israel has occupied deemed “infidels” or “apostates.” But the since the 1967 war that seized the West Bank. social-democratic ISO has a long history of Meanwhile, as Prime Minister Benjamin Ne- supporting imperialist-backed Islamic reac- tanyahu, along with Trump daughter Ivanka tion going back to the mujahedeen fighting and son-in-law Jared Kushner celebrated the the Soviet army in Afghanistan – all in the embassy dedication ceremony in Jerusalem, name of anti-communism. Israeli Army snipers were picking off peace- The ISO and other assorted “State De- ful protesters inside Gaza, who had been partment socialists” have repeatedly lament- gathered near the border for a protest cam- ed that the U.S. has not been doing enough paign commemorating the Naqba (Arabic to help the Islamist gangs in Syria, even as for “catastrophe”), the 80th anniversary of they condemn so-called “Russian imperial- the 1948 expulsion of hundreds of thousands ism.” (These political heirs of Tony Cliff, of Palestinian Arabs from what is now Israel. who claimed that the Soviet bureaucrati- At least 129 Palestinians were killed cally degenerated workers state was “state in this latest case of Zionist mass murder, capitalist,” previously denounced “Soviet and thousands were wounded, many of Peaceful Palestinian demonstrators flee murderous Zionist sniper fire. imperialism.”) We have refuted the claim them children. With North Korea on the out and on May 21 the camp was declared response, the U.S. local commander, Lt.- that post-Soviet Russia, a regional capitalist backburner (for now), the U.S. and NATO fully under government control. The regime Gen. Paul Funk, warned “you hit us, we power, is “imperialist” in “The Bugbear of imperialists have their gunsights trained on is now making advances in Daraa, the last will respond aggressively,” to which the ‘Russian Imperialism’” (The International- Iran, and things are moving rapidly. The re- rebel enclave in southwest Syria, on the bor- Turkish strong man blustered that Funk had ist No. 40, Summer 2015). But behind their cent withdrawal of the U.S. from the United der of Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan “clearly never got the Ottoman slap.” In vituperation, the social-democratic cheer- Nations Human Rights council, under the Heights. In exchange for Israeli acquiescence early March, tough guy Erdoğan threatened leaders for the fake “Syrian Revolution” pretext of “bias against Israel,” is a signal to Assad’s offensive, Russia brokered a deal a full-scale invasion of Kurdish-controlled have more sinister goals. Following the lead that any humanitarian pretenses will be excluding Iranian-backed forces from the territory: “Today we are in Afrin, tomorrow of Democratic Party war hawk Hillary Clin- dropped if the U.S. and its allies Israel and Daraa operations. This pact, however, can we will be in Manbij, the day after we will ton, they want to provoke an imperialist at- Saudi Arabia decide to attack Iran directly break down at any moment, as Israel has al- be east of the Euphrates to clean up all ter- tack on Russian forces that could trigger a while hitting Iranian-led militias in Syria. ready fired U.S.-supplied Patriot missiles at rorists all the way to the border of Iraq.” It full-scale regional or even world war: Recalling the messy Balkan Wars (between Syrian government drones in the area. appeared that Washington was faced with “Although claiming to oppose U.S. competing nationalists against the Austro- Meanwhile Turkey has consolidated the choice of either backing their most reli- imperial aims, the ISO repeats Syrian Hungarian and Ottoman empires) that trig- its position in northwest Syria, after its anti- able foot soldiers against Islamic State (the ‘rebel’ complaints that ‘promised military gered World War I, the imperialist powers Kurdish “Operation Olive Branch” launched Kurdish YPG), or facing off against NATO aid from U.S. and European governments believe they have everything under control. in January and completed in late March. Tur- ally Turkey. But as we warned in 2014, at has never included the kind of heavy But one wrong move, one misfired bullet, key’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who the outset of U.S.