The fight against slavery relied on the fight for decent pay and conditions for every worker. As long as there remain categories of persons who may receive lesser wages and conditions than others the conditions for slavery and conflict are present.
The workers of Australia and Canada are being subjected to unprecedented numbers of imported labour and they are worried. Yet protest is difficult because of the constant propaganda put out to persuade them that they have no right to democratic representation on this issue which will push down wages and push up the cost of living. (The cost of living goes up when the demand for land -for housing, agriculture) and resources (wood, coal, uranium, water etc- goes up.)
People are reluctant to complain about blatant importing of labour and of consumers of housing and vital resources when the increase in those newcomers is obvious because of a different appearance - be this due to their clothing or their physique - because Canadians and Australians know that this can rebound on those people personally.
Yet it is only through such obvious differences that numbers of immigrants become apparent to locals who would otherwise have no idea.
Citizens are entitled to expect that their government should not put them in such an invidious position.
They should denounce the organizations which market propaganda to suppress political discussion and expressions of protest against mass movements of labour. The fact is that multicultural propaganda, for all its good intentions, has been financed by government and by private enterprise, and can be shown to benefit government and private enterprise by discouraging the expression of important industrial relations concerns. As well as this it prevents open protest against the impact on the environment and in the cost of living which arise from the augmentation of demand through population increase well beyond that which would occur naturally.
The same economic and environment problems occur through the importation of large numbers of ethnically similar labour and consumers. It is not easy to complain about them either because of the tendency for ANY complaint about immigration numbers to be reflected back by a complicit media as if it were a complaint about ethnically different labour.
In other words, industry and a complicit government are not going to make it easy for workers and citizens to protect what they have. That is because they want to take it from them and they can use a pretended defense of multiculturalism as the first step to disarming protest.
For multiculturalism to save the good it once perhaps set out to do, it needs to come out against the harm that has been done in its name. It should get behind local workers to protect their rights so that employers may not legally skimp on the conditions and wages of foreign workers. It should militate for education and training of citizens so that lack of trained workers may not be used as an excuse for importing labour. It should also get behind home-buyers and renters by demanding public land development to keep the cost of land for housing low so that private property developers cannot easily make money by successfully lobbying for high immigration. It should endorse taxes on the unearned increases in land prices which coincide with population pressure. Multiculturalism should maintain demonstrable financial independence from industries which derive a financial edge through population boosting.
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Dave (not verified)
Thu, 2007-10-18 16:34
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The slippery slope and the Australian left
James Sinnamon
Fri, 2007-10-19 02:08
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I scratch my head trying to think of any enduring benefit
Dave (not verified)
Fri, 2007-10-19 15:47
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Left sects and multiculturalism
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