The wretched of the sea [an African point of view regarding refugees fleeing to Europe]

Click here to access article by Hamza Hamouchene from Pambazuka News (Africa).

Despite the chaos and mayhem caused by the NATO intervention in Libya, the country is still a key transit point for illegal migration from to Europe. A significant number of the black Africans living and working in Libya find themselves forced to escape to Europe because of the deep instability as well as the vicious racism they face.

But the author also is very critical of Algeria which is also the source of many refugees along with other countries in which capitalist exploitation forces people to flee.

People in Algeria and elsewhere in the global south immigrate because their countries’ economies are failing them, due to the ongoing capitalist exploitation and western imperialist domination that go hand in hand with repressive and corrupt regimes.