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Immigrant Workers and Class Struggles in Advanced Capitalism: the Western European Experience Manuel Castells Since the great social upheaval of May 1968 in France, class struggles in Western Europe seem to have re-entered a period of progressive development, both through a strengthening of trade-union and traditional and the of new issues and the political practices through appearance mobilization of new social strata around these issues. Thus the ’old mole’ was far from dormant and its underground workings lead sometimes to explosions of mass rage, and sometimes to the consolidation of new bases ofprotest and opposition to the system. Among these new developments, the issue of immigration and the mobilization of migrants are particularly prominent. As the major trump card in capitalist expansion, and as the bogy scapegoat of the bourgeoisie always ready to feed the fires of xenophobia and racism, as a pretext for a reluctantly renewed charity, as a myth in mobilizing the European left and as a source of confusion for trade-unions and left-wing parties, immigrant workers constitute both in the reality of their daily oppression and in their potential for social revolt, one of the most important and least known stakes in the newly-emerging class struggles of advance capitalism. In view of the complexity of the subject, the mass of fragmentary in- formation and the scarcity of adequate economic and statistical data, any analysis of immigrant workers must start out from carefully defined ob- jectives. The problematic we take as a starting-point conditions all our ef- forts at and a framework which our interpretation, provides organizes