gizmo wrote:I thought from your original post you were anti-foreign labour. I hadn't realised it was the fascist BNP who were stirring this up.
It's not really a question of anti-foreign labour, rather one of anti-cheap labour, this serves only to increase profit and undercut hard fought terms and conditions, by Brit Workers. The BNP will use the foreign element of the problem - to exploit race hatred.
Capitalism is neither in the interest of any worker - regardless of their native origin. The principal objective of the Capital Class, is to make money by profiteering on the backs of poor workers. Look back to the 19th century - where the Scottish miners had organised themselves into forming early trade unions - they where on strike ( for some ridiculously low amount ).
The pit owners exploited the starving Irish immigrants - who where desperate to find some means of feeding their families.
As a result - Irish discrimination, which included catholic discrimination, took hold in Scotland. This tragedy could have been avoided - if these unions had not misappropriated blame, against the Irish - when the real culprits, where the mine owners.
This inherent contradiction in capitalism, can never be resolved to benefit the worker. It reduces the workers bargaining power, to little more than begging ( I will do it for less ).
If it's good enough for the worker to compete - in this undignified scrabble for work - then equally the same said conditions should be applied to MSP's in the Scottish Parliament. If it's all about maximising profit by reducing costs. Perhaps we could find 300 talented Italians, to run our parliament - afteral whats good for the goose should be good for the gander.
