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The migrant crusade
Migrants must receive our full solidarity when they cross the Mexican-US border or the Mediterranean, writes PHIL HALL
Two Honduran men pose as a photographer, at left, takes their picture after the group climbed the border wall separating Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego

THE lessons of the Jarrow Crusade were that capitalism was unstable and went through periods of boom and bust that left workers poverty-stricken and starving.

When 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 more migrants from Central America are reaching the Tijuana-US border, what are the lessons we must learn from this new crusade?

Trump’s argument for closed borders relies strongly on erasing all historical memory of the relationship between migration and the US destabilisation and domination of the economies and governments of Central America up to the present.

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