#title Statement in support of Irish national day of action against racism and deportations
#author Workers’ Solidarity Federation
#SORTtopics Ireland, anti-racism, letter
#date 25 April 1998
#source Retrieved on 29<sup>th</sup> October 2021 from [[http://struggle.ws/africa/wsfother/irish_demo.html][struggle.ws]]
#lang en
#pubdate 2021-10-29T10:22:56



To Minister John O’Donogue

On behalf of the Workers Solidarity Federation of South Africa I would like to convey our organisation’s anger at the attempts of Irish government to scapegoat harrass and deport asylum seekers.

I would further like to express our organisation’s solidarity with the day of action called for the 25 April in opposition to these government policies.

Asylum seekers are fleeing economic social and political oppression. To visit further persecution upon them is unjust. To deport them back to the horrors from which they are seeking to escape is unjustifiable. That almost all deportees are drawn from working and poor social groups further underlines the bias in such actions.

All people should have equal rights — of free movement of access to social and economic goods of employment — and not simply the wealthy or the middle and upper classes.

Discrminatory asylum policies are not only wrong but they are against the interests of all working and poor people.

 - In solidarity with the asylum seekers

 - In soidarity with the victims of capitalism and greed

 - In solidarity with the vicims of power and oppression

 - In solidarity with the working class and poor of all nations

<em>National Secretariat<br>Workers Soldarity Federation<br>South Africa<br>Suite no. 36<br>Private Bag X42<br>Braamfontein<br>2017<br>South Africa</em>