Brazil – AND: Ceuta Exposes the Crimes by Imperialism Linked to Mass Migration
Featured image: Immigrants return to Morocco after crossing the border from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, on July 31, 2026. Source: Antonio Sempere/AP/Reproduction.
We have been reporting on the mass murder of migrants in Ceuta. The recent interview in A Propósito between Adriano Pistorelo, a specialist in Migration Law, and Wender, representative of the International Anti-Imperialist League (AIL) – Brazil Section also touched on this topic.
In the discussion on the conditions that lead to mass migration Wender linked them to the current crisis of imperialism, which the AIL representative describes as “ a crisis of relative overproduction without historical precedent, which manifests itself in the economic, political, and moral spheres,” also adding that the response of the imperialist nations to the crisis is to expand the exploitation of the labor and wealth of oppressed nations. He brings up the imperialist struggle for repartition that transforms oppressed nations into battlegrounds for wars of aggression, interventions of all kinds, and struggles for control of markets, raw materials, and strategic positions, which leads to destruction of the means of existence and forced abandonment of their land. “It is this economic, political, cultural, and military domination that produces migration,” Wender summarized.
A Nova Democracia (AND) notes, in an article about the broadcast, that Ceuta concentrated to a few days a situation that occurs on a global scale. By the end of 2025, the largest number of forced displacement (117.8 million people) was recorded in the period after the Second World War. They highlight, that while most are displaced inside their own or neighboring countries, many of those who strive to reach Europe lose their lives crossing the Sahara, the Atlantic Ocean, and the western and central Mediterranean regions.
Citing that in 2024, approximately 304 million people lived outside the country where they were born, a number that has almost doubled since the 90’s, they analyze how the migrant workers are often forced into the lowest-paying jobs with the worst conditions, that go hand in hand with the chauvinistic agitation that portrays them as “invaders.” They face lower wages and a documentation system used to increase their super-exploitation. “While these economies need immigrant labor, they promote repression and deportations,” Wender stated about the case of the imperialist economies.
AND also talks about these migrant workers resisting in the belly of the beast, citing Wender as: “The working class needs to organize itself independently of national origin” and “The AIL advocates that immigrants organize themselves as an active part of the working class in the countries where they live.”
In the broadcast the current mass migration is analyzed as one of the concrete manifestations of the general crisis of imperialist decay. The immigrant proletariat expelled from oppressed nations, become largely integrated into the proletariat of the imperialist nations, bringing the struggle against national exploitation and oppression to their own strongholds, AND writes.
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