Fleeing persecution, violence, and war, nearly 69 million refugees were forcibly displaced last year. Continuing a trend for the past five years, this number represents yet another record high. According to the United Nations High Command for Refugees, in 2017 there were over 25 million refugees, 40 million internally displaced people (who have been driven from their homes but remain in their native countries) and over 3 million asylum seekers. In response, the US and other European governments whose imperialist plundering and wars-for-profit have created this world-wide humanitarian disaster have imposed inhumane immigration policies that deny safe harbor to the millions of men, women, and children who have left their homes far behind, mainly in the Middle East and Africa. The extreme cruelty of these policies reflects the openly white supremacist character of an increasing number of US and European rulers.
Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite!