LET
US DRIVE BACK BY FIGHTING THIS FURTHER ACT
OF
INTIMIDATION AGAINST IMMIGRANT WORKERS
In
the morning of last 18th September at 6:45, in Rome, officers
of “carabinieri” and “guardia di finanza” have heavily searched at
Dhumcatu’s head office for 4 hours. The pretext was that of
investigating on “international terrorism”. In the meantime, the
policemen also searched at the residences of many members of Dhumcatu. The
policemen took away from Dhumcatu’s head office some computer hard disks
and all the paper files regarding stay-permit demands and work trials of
hundreds of immigrants. The office was turned upside down. A case
containing clothes was broken with a sledgehammer.
Dhumcatu
is one of the most important and fighting associations of immigrant
workers in Rome. Its members are people from Bangladesh, Pakistan, India
and other countries. Dhumcatu has contributed to found the “Committee of
migrants to Italy”. It has been fighting for years to defend
immigrants’ rights, first against the Turco-Napolitano law, and than
against the Bossi-Fini law. Dhumcatu is fighting against the wars of
robbery and oppression that western countries wage against the peoples of
the South of the World. Dhumcatu also fights side by side with Italian
workers to defend the “articolo 18”.
The
action against Dhumcatu should be seen in the framework of a more general
campaign of hate and racism, both institutional and extra-institutional,
which has been rising for years in Italy and in all the Western countries.
This racist campaign is directed mainly against Islamic immigrants and
keeps pace with the Western aggression against the masses of the “Third
World”.
These
actions and this policy aim to:
- Frighten
the mass of immigrant workers in order to prevent them from fighting
and self-organising;
- Prevent
immigrants from openly siding with the peoples of the South of the
World, every day attacked by “our” countries and governments;
- Sow fear and suspicion among Italian workers, in order to prevent them from joining the struggle of immigrant workers, so as the weaken both these two sectors of proletarians.
A
strong reaction against all that and against this further act of
intimidation is necessary! Let us loudly say that the real danger for
Italian workers does not come from immigration, but from capitalism with
is rules and its insatiable thirst for profit and money!
- Against
the racist Bossi-Fini law! For the unity among Italian and immigrant
workers!
- Let
us support with no conditions immigrant workers’ struggle and
organization!
- Let
us support with no conditions the struggle and resistance of the
exploited masses of the South of the World!
- Western and Italian troops, go out of Iraq, Afghanistan and of all the South of the World!
19 settembre 2003
Organizzazione Comunista Internazionalista
