@StandWithUsCA A "peaceful event" called "combat on campus" and featuring speakers from an armed group implicated in atrocity crimes. Protests should be peaceful, but holding an event like this right now is wildly inappropriate, given the current circumstances in Gaza.
Must read post about a @UofT@UofTEngineering guest professor who took time away from campus to commit genocide with the infamous Golani Brigade and participate in the illegal invasion of Lebanon.
Apparently protesting genocide is punished but committing genocide is okay.
In much of the imperial core, slogans like “stand with immigrants” are common. The sentiment itself is admirable, but it rarely comes with the harder question: what forces people to abandon their homes, languages, and histories just to cross oceans and borders into the core?
The truth is that imperialism itself manufactures the conditions of exile. Through war, sanctions, economic plunder, and ecological devastation, it creates worlds that people can no longer survive in. From the Middle East to Latin America, from Africa to Southeast Asia, the destruction is not accidental but the direct outcome of global capitalist expansion. Even in countries such as Japan, where work culture is notoriously harsh and xenophobia runs deep, life remains more stable than in the devastated peripheries of the global South. The difference between migration within the imperial sphere and migration from the periphery to the core is structural: one is facilitated by privilege, the other is criminalized because the system needs an exploitable class of displaced labor.
Imperialism does not stop at draining wealth from the Global South; it also reproduces exploitation at home. The economies of the core depend on a disposable underclass of migrant workers, people stripped of full rights and legal protections so their labor can be hyper-exploited. Immigration enforcement, far from maintaining order, functions as a tool of discipline that keeps immigrant communities precarious and fearful. This fear ensures that they accept the lowest wages, the most dangerous jobs, and the most degrading living conditions. The bourgeois state enforces this hierarchy to maintain profitability and social control. As long as the contradictions of imperialism remain unresolved, the cycle of displacement and exploitation will continue to feed itself.
Reforms in immigration policy may bring temporary relief, but they do not dismantle the system that produces migration under duress. They can be reversed overnight precisely because they leave the core logic of imperialism intact. Real liberation cannot stop at the borders; it requires a struggle against the forces of imperial war, capitalist extraction, and class gap domination.