Editing Old Left (section)

===Immigration===
The Old Left sometimes took a stance hostile to immigration, promoting policies that would preserve the ethnic homogeneity of the country. Australian Prime Minister [[John Curtin]], who was part of the [[Australian Labor Party]], reinforced the White Australia Policy and said the following in his defense: "This country shall remain forever the home of the descendants of those people who came here in peace in order to establish in the South Seas an outpost of the British race."<ref>"Fact sheet – Abolition of the 'White Australia' Policy". Australian Government Department of Home Affairs. Archived from the original on 12 January 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2018.</ref> [[Arthur Calwell]], another Old Leftist who led the Australian Labor Party in the 1960s, strongly defended the [[White Australia policy|White Australia Policy]] and said the following: "I am proud of my white skin, just as a Chinese is proud of his yellow skin, a Japanese of his brown skin, and the Indians of their various hues from black to coffee-coloured. Anybody who is not proud of his race is not a man at all. And any man who tries to stigmatize the Australian community as racist because they want to preserve this country for the white race is doing our nation great harm&nbsp;... I reject, in conscience, the idea that Australia should or ever can become a multi-racial society and survive."<ref>Calwell, ''Be Just and Fear Not'', 117</ref> Left-wing Labor members perceived unrestricted immigration as a ploy by owners to drive down wages, resulting in the leadership of labor unions often being skeptical of expanded immigration.

As late as 2015, [[Bernie Sanders]] criticized open borders a "[[Koch brothers]] proposal", although he later switched to the more New Left position welcoming to immigration.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vox.com/2015/7/29/9048401/bernie-sanders-open-borders 
|title=Bernie Sanders's fear of immigrant labor is ugly – and wrongheaded |first=Dylan |last=Matthews |work=Vox |date=July 29, 2015 |access-date=2 January 2023}}</ref>