Immigration

Undercover: Exposing the Far Right review

Hope Not Hate go undercover to expose the changing dynamics of the international far right mixing racism, violence and conspiracy theories

Workers Power  ·  03 November 2024

Far right quelled by anti-racist mobilisations – but no room for complacency

Antiracist demonstrations show working class solidarity is the way to stop fascist terror.

KD Tait  ·  09 August 2024

Resisting the new far right in Ireland

The recent riot in Dublin dramatically shone a new light on the activities of Ireland’s emerging far right.

Bernie McAdam  ·  16 January 2024

Tories take aim at migrant workers as Brexit drives immigration to record high

Keir Starmer and Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper are desperate not to be viewed as ‘soft on migrants’.

George Banks  ·  14 January 2024

Oppose France’s new racist laws

On 19 December the French parliament adopted yet another immigration law.

Marc Lasalle  ·  14 January 2024

Resist the Tories’ carnival of reaction

It’s time for them to go.

George Banks  ·  13 October 2023

Refugee prison hulk plumbs new depths of mistreatment

The government wants to ‘house’ asylum seekers on the 220-bed accommodation barge.

Millie Collins  ·  16 September 2023

The Rwanda deportations: a ‘world leading’ attack on refugee rights

The arbitrary denial of rights to asylum seekers who arrive by irregular routes threatens the principle of universal democratic and human rights

Workers Power  ·  28 June 2022

The Rwanda refugee deal is racist and inhumane

A disgusting, racist plan.

Alex Rutherford  ·  27 April 2022

Aid for Ukrainian refugees must be extended to all

Despite the many inadequacies of the UK government’s scheme, its effects in terms of the relatively large number of refugees already allowed in under it cannot be denied.

George Banks  ·  14 April 2022

Escalating anti-migrant aggression in Eastern Europe exposes EU hypocrisy

Horrific scenes of families starving and freezing on the Belarusian border represent a new low for human rights in the recent history of Europe.

Urte March  ·  08 December 2021

Halt the tragedies in the Channel – let the refugees in

UK racist border controls are killing people

Workers Power  ·  25 November 2021

Refugees victimised in EU-Belarus ‘hybrid war’

By Urte March ON THE border between Belarus and its EU neighbours— Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania—refugees from the global south are once again being used as pawns in a vicious inter-state power struggle. Embattled Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko has been accused by the EU of manufacturing a migrant ‘crisis’ for the EU in retaliation for […]

Urte March  ·  29 October 2021

We need a united front to stop Priti Patel’s racist Borders Bill

By Joe Crathorne BETWEEN 600,000 and 1.2 million undocumented migrants and asylum seekers live in Britain, around 50,000 of whom are each year rounded up and sent to detention centres to be processed and, usually, deported. At any one time up to 3,500 are held indefinitely in prison-like detention centres. These workers, whose only crime […]

Joe Crathorne  ·  26 October 2021

Labour shortages result of attacks on migrant workers

By Dave Stockton THE CONFEDERATION of British Industries (CBI), representing 190,000 companies, warned on 18 October that ‘acute’ labour shortages will spread across more and more industries, from construction and distribution to retail and healthcare. And this crisis could last as long as two years. Though hospitality trades have enjoyed a strong bounce-back, this sector […]

Dave Stockton  ·  25 October 2021

Kids in Cages: Biden’s immigration policy is a return to the status quo

Kids in cages are kids in cages, no matter which party puts them there.

Rebecca Anderson  ·  13 April 2021

Brexit talks hang in the balance

Deal or no deal, the working class loses.

Tim Nailsea  ·  13 November 2020

Lesbos: The migrant crisis is a humanitarian crisis

Refugees still stranded on Lesbos.

George Banks  ·  10 November 2020

Refugees in the Aegean or the Channel – let them come to Britain!

Fires have destroyed the Moria “camp”.

Dave Stockton  ·  10 September 2020

End the senseless slaughter, send aid not warships to migrants in the Channel!

Open the borders to refugees, economic migrants, asylum seekers.

Rob Schofield  ·  18 August 2020

Immigration and the Trade Unions

The recent election of a Conservative government, with one of the most openly racist Prime Ministers and Cabinet in living memory, the victory of an openly xenophobic and anti-immigrant Leave campaign in the 2016 referendum, and the rise of racist and xenophobic movements in Britain and throughout the world, have all raised questions as to how the working class movement should respond to what appears to be growing support within the working class for restrictions on immigration

Tim Nailsea  ·  31 March 2020

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