the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Jul 22, 2024
Green Border, a 2023 movie by Polish filmmaker Agnieska Holland, follows a family of Syrian refugees as they try to make their way across Europe to a relative in Sweden.
We meet them on a plane from Turkey to Belarus. From there, they are thrust into a nightmare. They spend much of the film trekking across the swampy no-man’s-land at the border between Belarus and Poland, with each country’s border guards violently expelling them to the other country. Holland follows first the family, then a Polish border guard, then a group of Polish immigrant rights activists.
We hear much about the “migrant crisis” in this country—but the issue is worldwide. This film lets us see it in a different perspective.