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Alexandria Library Workers of the world, unite!

After reading the harsh conditions they are forced to deal with Asian and sub-Saharan immigrants in the ship "Marine I" after more than two-month voyage, I want to do a personal reflection about the world in which we live, this period of world history we commonly call "Globalization."

few days ago I saw a family of sub-Saharan immigrants, and at nightfall, searching through the remains of expired food or bad that a supermarket chain had put in a huge trash bins by the back door. I can not imagine how hard it must be scavenging for food, but less than I could imagine the dehumanization of the people until I heard a woman walking in front of me stopped short to say: Let them go to your fucking country! Slag!.

I've always seen immigrants as workers fleeing poverty in their countries of origin to survive more or less success, in the geopolitical space called "first world", a term paradigm because it is not a unitary category, as that under the umbrella of "first world" from the wealthiest families are economical to the highest poverty situations extreme. Only one fact: the last works of Timothy Smeeding indicate that 20% of the U.S. population living below the absolute poverty threshold.

Globalization is bringing global processes that separate vertical polarization increasingly political-economic elites, together with the transnational business enterprise, population working. Globalization accentuates the processes of social inequality by expanding the dynamics of "wild capitalism" to all regions of the world, so only a structural change could turn the situation.

should stop seeing immigrants as a threat that jeopardizes the work in first world countries and see them for what they are, workers fleeing a situation of social injustice. Just being able to see that immigrants suffer some exploitative labor situations similar to those in other measures, have first-world workers can overcome their differences. Therefore, and for different forms of exploitation disguised affecting workers around the world, looking to reclaim the banner of Marx:

WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!