Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 14:18:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chris <red-AT-iww.org>
Subject: AUT: [ezln on migration] Third Piece (Fwd)


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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 09:43:22 -0700
From: JAQUELINE PEREZ <perez-AT-total.net>
To: cinqfm <cinqfm-AT-generation.net>
Cc: zapatismo <zapatismo-AT-mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu>,
    reseau <reseau-AT-lists.nothingness.org>, jacques <grabuge-AT-odyssee.net>
Subject: MIGRATION, THE ERRANT NIGTHTMARE (EZLN)

Subject: Third Piece
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 18:47:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Cecilia Rodriguez <moonlight-AT-igc.apc.org>
To: ncdm-gc-AT-igc.org, chiapas-l-AT-profmexis.sar.net, reg.mexico-AT-conf.igc.org

[Translator's note: In June of 1997 the following document appeared in a
European publication. It is an analysis of neoliberalism by Subcomandante
Insurgente Marcos of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.  We will
be sending you the rest of the 7 pieces as the days progress. Cecilia
Rodriguez of the NCDLJ]

THE THIRD PIECE MIGRATION, THE ERRANT NIGHTMARE.
The third figure is constructed by drawing a circle.

We spoke beforehand of the existence of new territories, at the end of the
Third World War, which awaited conquest (the old socialist countries), and
of others which should have been re-conquered by the "new world order". In
order to achieve it, the financial centers carried out a criminal and
brutal third strategy; the proliferation of "regional wars" and "internal
conflicts", which mobilized great masses of workers and allowed capital to
follow routes of atypical accumulation.

The results of this world war of conquest was a great ring of millions of
migrants in all the world "Foreigners" in the world "without borders"
which the victors of the Third World War promised.  Millions of people
suffered xenophobic persecution, precarious labor conditions, loss of
cultural
identity, police repression, hunger, prison, death.

"From the American Rio Grande to the "European" Schengen space, a double
contradictory tendency is confirmed. On one side the borders are closed
officially to the migration of labor, on the other side entire branches of
the economy oscillate between instability and flexibility, which are the
most secure means of attracting a foreign labor force" (Alain Morice, Op.
Cit.).

With different names, under a judicial differentiation, sharing an
equality of misery, the migrants or refugees or displaced of all the world
are "foreigners" who are tolerated or rejected.  The nightmare of
migration, whatever its causes, continues to roll and grow over the
planet's surface. The number of people who are accounted for in the
statistics of the UN High Commission on Refugees has grown
disproportionately from some 2 million in 1975 to 27 million in 1995.

With national borders destroyed ( for merchandise) the globalized market
organizes the global economy: research and design of goods and services,
as well as their circulation and consumption are thought of in
intercontinental terms. For each part of the capitalist process the "new
world order"
organizes the flow of the labor force, specialized or not, up to where it
is necessary.  Far from subjecting itself to the "free flow" so
clucked-over by neoliberalism, the employment markets are each day
determined more by migratory flows.  Where skilled workers are concerned,
whose numbers are not significance in the context of global migration, the
"crossing of brains" represents a great deal in terms of economic power
and knowledge.  Nevertheless, whether skilled labor, or unskilled labor,
the mi gratory politics of neoliberalism is oriented more towards
destabilizing
the global labor market than towards stopping immigration.

The Fourth World War, with its process of destruction/depopulation and
reconstruction/reorganization provokes the displacement of millions of
people.  Their destiny is to continue to wander, with the nightmare at
their side, and to offer to employed workers in different nations a threat
to their employment stability, an enemy to hide the image of the boss, and
a pretext for giving meaning to the r acist nonsense promoted by
neoliberalism.

This is the symbol of the errant nightmare of global migration, a ring of
terror which roams all over the world.



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