Refugees & Asylum Seekers

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

KD Tait  ·  03 November 2024

Defend refugees against the far right

Labour's policy towards asylum seekers is little different to the Tories.

Millie Collins  ·  10 September 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

Racist riots spread to Belfast

Northern Ireland's sectarian culture has proven fertile ground for the spread of racist bigotry towards Muslims

Bernie McAdam  ·  07 August 2024

Pakistan: Stop the racist war on Afghan refugees!

On October 1, the Pakistani government gave an ultimatum to an estimated 1.7 million Afghan refugees.

Minerwa Tahir  ·  15 November 2023

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

Appeal Court grants stay of execution for Rwanda refugees

THE TORIES’ plan to deport migrants who arrive on small boats to Rwanda has been ruled illegal by the Court of Appeal. First announced in April 2022, the government has already given Rwanda £140 million, without managing to deport a single refugee under the scheme. The latest appeal was brought by the United Nations refugee […]

Workers Power  ·  10 July 2023

Defend refugee rights!

The Tories are making it illegal to claim asylum.

George Banks  ·  28 March 2023

Far right target migrants and oppressed

By Dave Stockton FAR RIGHT populist and fascist groups are mounting a widespread offensive across the UK and in the Republic of Ireland, using anti-immigrant racism and anti-trans bigotry as their calling cards. The decision of governments to admit Ukrainian refugees while at the same time, in Britain’s case at least, demonising those who cross […]

Rob Schofield  ·  21 March 2023

End neglect and abuse of asylum seekers

By R. Banks THE GOVERNMENT’S mistreatment of asylum seekers has come into public focus in recent weeks through a series of scandals, highlighting serious safeguarding failures and violations of basic human rights. It began with the Manston processing centre, a former military base in Kent. The site was intended to process 1,000 to 1,600 people […]

George Banks  ·  07 February 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

Political bulletin: No-one is illegal – open borders

Political bulletin for 26 November 2021

Workers Power  ·  26 November 2021

Western powers must accept refugees and provide aid for Afghanistan

By Dave Stockton AFTER 40 years of war Afghanistan momentarily seemed to be at peace after the Taliban took power for the second time in mid-August. But the Taliban have taken over a devastated country. Famine About one-third of the country’s population of 38 million is facing ‘emergency’ or ‘crisis’ levels of food insecurity, according […]

Dave Stockton  ·  30 October 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

Political bulletin: Stop the Borders’ Bill

Political bulletin for 15 October 2021

Workers Power  ·  15 October 2021

Fighting Priti Patel’s war on migrants

Despite its talk of helping Afghan refugees, the government is passing new laws to harass migrants

Millie Collins  ·  27 August 2021

Glasgow shows we need a mass movement to resist the “hostile environment”

When a Home Office van appeared on Kenmure Street in Glasgow southside early in the morning of 13 May and bundled two men out of their homes, the community responded immediately.

Urte March  ·  03 June 2021

Lesbos: The migrant crisis is a humanitarian crisis

Refugees still stranded on Lesbos.

George Banks  ·  10 November 2020

Work, housing and equality for all refugees

We must resist the Tories' demonisation and violent victimisation of some of the most vulnerable people on earth.

Workers Power  ·  09 November 2020

End Britain’s colonisation of the Chagos Islands

Return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

Chris Clough  ·  01 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

Why socialists oppose the Tories’ new immigration system

Trade unions and Labour MPs should oppose this attack on workers and fight for the progressive policy passed at conference

Dave Brody  ·  01 March 2020

Tories turn on child refugees

Boris Johnson’s Tory government published legislation in December announcing their intention to scrap the Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement Scheme (VCRS). This would enshrine in law the Tories’ hostility to child refugees

Olivia Nightingale  ·  04 January 2020

Labour: the fight for free movement starts now

At Labour Party conference in Brighton, the internationalist Left scored a significant victory on conference floor with the passage of a motion on immigration which, in principle, commits Labour to maintaining and extending freedom of movement; a radical break from Labour’s previous enthusiasm for immigration controls. The motion also mandates Labour to reject any points-based […]

Urte March  ·  08 October 2019

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