It is my opinion that, as the economy is now global; any 'Workers Revolution' would have to start in the Third World. After all, on a global scale, we (meaning the Western Society we live in) ARE the 'bourgeoisie' of the planet that has to be overcome.
The Banking/Capitalist Elite have pulled off a masterstroke (even if it was unintentional), by moving all the major industrial processes to the Third World, where the major abundance of natural resources reside. In doing this the Corporate Elite have distanced themselves from the problematic industrial workers. They use the power of unlimited credit, vast consumerism and Government handouts, combined with a persistent media dumbing down our western society, to subdue the workers of the West from open revolt. They have effectively pacified the ones in position to threaten their power.
So, how does the constant influx of illegals into the U.S and Europe help the cause of true Socialism/Anarchism? In my opinion it doesn't, in fact it does serious harm.
LET ME EXPLAIN.
It plays into the hands of the Corporations by providing cheap Labour that will drive wages down.
Instead of helping the cause of the left, it gives the native working class a ready made scapegoat, somebody to blame their woes upon, instead of focusing on the working classes REAL enemy, the Banking/Corporist elite. Thus it drives the working classes increasingly towards right wing Fascism.
Finally, aren't the people coming to the West just trying to climb the Capitalist ladder, instead of helping fight the 'Socialist' cause in their own countries?
AN EXAMPLE
The Social Healthcare of the Phillippines is being torn apart by State trained nurses leaving the country. The poor help pay for this training through their hard earned taxes, only to see these nurses betray the 'Socialist' cause by heading to the Capitalist West for better pay from Corporate companies.
They arrive in the U.S/Europe fully qualified and willing to work for less than the normal rates of pay, driving down wages in a supposed skilled trade and making somebody unemployed. Thus the public AGAIN pick up the tab by having to pay unemployment benefits
How does this scenario help global Socialism/Anarchism? The only people gaining out of this scenario are the Neo-Liberals who dream of one global community, with no national boundaries and workers having to travel the globe in search of work.
The costs of this migration are being felt in this poor country that needs its best health professionals but spends thousands of dollars training each nurse - only to have them serve the needs of countries like Britain, the United States, Saudi Arabia and Ireland."Sadly, this is no longer brain drain, but more appropriately, brain haemorrhage of our nurses," said Dr Jaime Galvez Tan, vice chancellor for research at the University of the Philippines in Manila, and executive director of the National Institutes of Health Philippines. "Very soon, the Philippines will be bled dry of nurses."
Rose Gonzalez is a nursing graduate turned public relations practitioner for seven years, but who is now again a nurse, is leaving soon to work at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Maryland in the United States.
She is among the Filipino nurses who find their profession the sure ticket to a better-paying job abroad --and the shortest route to obtaining immigrant status elsewhere.
Government figures report that 2,908 Filipino nurses left for 21 countries in the first quarter of 2002. In the previous year, 13,536 nurses left for 31 countries.
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), which processes the departure of migrant workers, said only 304 nurses left for the United States in 2001. This figure, however, is said to be grossly underreported. The agency also does not handle nurses who leave on immigrant visas.
The Philippines is such a rich recruitment ground for nurses - and increasingly, caregivers too - that U.S.-based hospitals hold nursing job fairs in the country. The International Union of Nurses says close to 10,000 nurses were directly hired in this manner in 2001.
Tan says the annual outflow of Filipino nurses is now three times greater than the annual production of licensed nurses of 6,500 to 7,000 year.
http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=18202
So, can anybody explain how immigration aids the cause of Anarchism?
I heard the IWW in the US opposed immigration for labour market reasons. Immigration and left-wing politics are not inextricably linked.