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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 20:01:52 -0600 (CST)
From: Edgar Abarca Rojano <sestrada-AT-fiscom.fcfm.buap.mx>
Subject: M-NEWS: E;Marcos;7 Pieces, Third Piece, June 1997 (fwd)






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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 11:49:39 -0500 (CDT)
From: Chiapas95 <owner-chiapas95-AT-mundo.eco.utexas.edu>
To: chiapas95-AT-mundo.eco.utexas.edu
Subject: E;Marcos;7 Pieces, Third Piece, June 1997

This posting has been forwarded to you as a service of 
Accion Zapatista de Austin.

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

[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 subject ing 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 migratory
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 racist 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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