Britain’s Made-Up Migrant Crisis
Political fearmongering about the effects of immigration on the British economy doesn’t track with reality.
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“Every industrial and commercial center in England now possesses a working class divided into two hostile camps, English proletarians and Irish proletarians. The ordinary English worker hates the Irish worker as a competitor who lowers his standard of life. In relation to the Irish worker, he regards himself as a member of the ruling nation, and consequently he becomes a tool of the English aristocrats and capitalists against Ireland, thus strengthening their domination over himself.”
“The BJP’s weaponization of Aadhaar is a canary in the coal mine for the state violence that biometric ID systems can unleash the world over.”
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“My struggle is tied to the American fight for equality and for justice and democracy.”
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“As the spaghetti western developed, the subgenre became more explicitly political as well as more stylistically fraught.”
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“Blouin remained convinced to the end that ‘the future belonged to the unity of free, sovereign peoples.’”
“In the long run, we’d all be better off in the sort of egalitarian, transnational human community envisioned in optimistic sci‑fi fare like Star Trek.”
“The supposedly unrepentant and desperate Wobblies were on their way to New York City to be shipped off to Europe.”
