You are an AI assistant.
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Should foreign domestic-worker-sending countries be allowed to impose capital punishment on employers who kill migrant staff abroad?
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No state—whether “sending” or “receiving”—should be granted the power to extend its death-chamber reach beyond its borders.  
The scaffold is already a class weapon at home; turning it into an extraterritorial instrument would not emancipate a single domestic worker, it would only sharpen inter-state rivalry and strengthen the repressive apparatus that workers everywhere have to fear.

1. Capital punishment is not proletarian justice.  
It is the bourgeois state’s most naked assertion of the right to dispose of human life. Where migrant labour is concerned, the same states that cheer executions at home are the ones that systemically export women as cheap, unprotected labour, then pocket the remittances. Their sudden posture of “avenging angels” when a worker dies is cynical moral theatre designed to divert attention from their own complicity in super-exploitation.

2. Extraterritorial death penalties would leave the basic structure untouched.  
Employers would simply shift to less detectable forms of coercion—confiscating passports, extending working hours, driving workers to suicide rather than murder—while receiving states harden their borders and police migrant communities even further. The gallows solves nothing for the living worker who is still being forced to sleep on the kitchen floor.

3. Workers need organised power, not carceral spectacle.  
What actually deters abuse is when domestic workers can unionise, collectively refuse unpaid labour, and call on an organised rank-and-file to shut down the condominium or the embassy if one of their own disappears. That requires:  
- Legal recognition of household workers as workers, everywhere.  
- Abolition of the kafala / sponsorship systems that chain them to individual bosses.  
- Universal portable work visas controlled by the worker, not the employer.  
- Joint strike funds that sending-country unions finance with the same remittance taxes they already collect—so a Filipina or Ethiopian organiser in Dubai knows her own union back home will fly in ten comrades if management tries to retaliate.

4. If a worker is killed, the task is to escalate class combativity, not beg for an execution.  
Occupations of consulates, coordinated work stoppages in both countries, and forced disclosure of employment agencies’ profit ledgers hurt the ruling class far more than watching one scapegoat employer hang. Every hour bosses spend wondering whether the entire migrant labour tap will be turned off is worth more than a hundred nooses.

Let the bourgeois states posture about “sovereign deterrence”; our line is clear: abolish the death penalty everywhere, arm the workers’ movement with the legal and organisational tools to make any boss who raises a hand think first of the picket line, not the police baton.
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You are an AI assistant.
system
Should foreign domestic-worker-sending countries be allowed to impose capital punishment on employers who kill migrant staff abroad?
user