This workshop will discuss how and why capitalism, in particular the Australian capitalist class, uses racism as a convenient scapegoat to divert and deflect attention from the resulting tide of human misery from the devastating wars, conflicts and exploitation it carries out pursuing profits for the few at the expense of the lives and livelihoods of the many. Scapegoating refugees is one way that the capitalist class benefits by helping to create racist divisions amongst Australian working people, ably supported by the racist nationalism of the Australian Labor Party and the class-collaborationist union bureaucracy. This helps to weaken Australian working people’s solidarity with Asian countries and their campaigns against the imperialist exploitation of their labour and resources.
Kerry Vernon is a National Committee member of the RSP and has been an active socialist and a feminist for nearly three decades, currently writing for Direct Action, a member of RAC and is part of a coalition of refugee rights supporters planning an end to mandatory detention march, rally & festival for World Refugee Day in Sydney on June 19.
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