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Many asylum applications are rejected on grounds that dismiss the dire situations in applicants’ countries of origin.
After yet another tragedy in the Channel, there is no doubt that something needs to be done to improve the processes overseeing asylum seekers coming to the UK, through whatever (...)
Dave Kellaway on Starmer’s cyncism.
Leader of the Opposition’s offices, mid-morning, November 22… Two special advisors are on their feet, high-fiving and screaming ‘Yessh’. They have that day’s Daily Telegraph in their hands. The headline reads; ‘Starmer: UK must wean itself off migrant labour’. One (...)
Exclusive: Charities say Homes for Ukraine scheme endangers refugees, adds to trauma and needs overhaul
The UK home secretary, Priti Patel, is facing mass legal action over delays that have left thousands of Ukrainians at risk of trauma and Russian bombs, or in limbo in eastern Europe.
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The prime minster promised a response to match this terrible crisis. So far his words have rung hollow
It is difficult to forget the images of people desperately clinging on to the wings of military aircraft as they set off from the besieged Kabul airport last August.
The UK government (...)
The protest-criminalising Police Bill is just one element of the Tories’ push towards a vicious authoritarian state. Just behind it in the parliamentary queue of measures to assault the rights of people living in, working in or trying to come to the United Kingdom, the Nationality and Borders (...)
Neil Faulkner comments on the latest Channel atrocity.
Labour deputy Angela Rayner is regarded by some as an authentic working-class voice on the opposition front bench; in contrast, as it were, to the dull, conformist, middle-class lawyer beside her. Anyone who believed this should have been (...)
Dave Kellaway reports on the recent tragedy in the channel and why the Tories ’hostile environment’ will probably lead to more needless deaths.
Watching the news and listening to the politicians you would think that the 27 people who drowned horribly in an icy Channel were part of a ‘human (...)
Call to speed up compensation for people wrongly detained and deported by government.
Survivors of the Windrush scandal have delivered a petition to Downing Street signed by 130,000 people calling on the government to speed up compensation payments and implement all the recommendations in the (...)
A global revolt from below against racism and police violence has transformed world politics during the last three weeks.
This revolt, led by young activists from racially oppressed minorities and rooted in working-class communities, is a direct challenge to the neoliberal order.
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Unite General Secretary Len McCluskey is attempting to undermine the free movement policy agreed at Labour conference. Unite activist Ian Allinson argues for the right of working-class people to live and work where we want and explains why unions and the Labour Party are so ambivalent.
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Policy passed at 2019 Labour Party conference creates an opening for all on the left to argue for open borders, even as the leadership seeks to undermine it, writes Pete Gillard.
In September 2019, Labour Party Conference passed, almost unanimously, an unprecedented policy in defence of (...)
Study finds children in England and Scotland experiencing rising prejudice since Brexit vote
Eastern European pupils in schools in England and Scotland have experienced increased levels of racism and xenophobia since the Brexit vote, with some accusing their teachers of failing to protect (...)
British passport holders say they are routinely pressed by council officers to leave the UK
British passport holders from the Chagos Islands are being systematically targeted in a “shameful” attempt to have them removed from the UK, the Observer can reveal.
The revelations expose a fresh (...)
Addressed to the Home Secretary Sajid Javid
The APPG on British Muslims’ definition of Islamophobia has now been adopted by the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats Federal board, Plaid Cymru and the Mayor of London, as well as several local councils. All of this is occurring before the Home (...)
On both the left and the right, people pit migrants’ rights against workers’ rights. That attitude only serves the interests of the powerful. In this article, Amardeep Dhillon explores the work of migrant-focused trade unions and solidarity groups in London and other parts of Great Britain, and (...)
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Why, if the government is so weak, is the Tory vote still solid?
Despite the shock inflicted on Theresa May in June 2017, her party still polled over forty per cent of the vote. That was higher than the Tories had polled in any general election for twenty-five years. May lost seats while (...)
A group of 15 activists who prevented a deportation charter flight from leaving Stansted airport by locking themselves together around the aeroplane have been found guilty of a terrorist offence.
The so-called Stansted 15 spent nine weeks on trial charged with an offence that has never been (...)
Where is the Left’s argument on migration? For the last two years or so, it’s been buried in the centrist-led campaign to Remain within the European Union. The politics of that campaign are not pro-migrant. Not even covertly.
The argument of the People’s Vote campaign is that it is perfectly (...)
Sivamohan Valluvan and Eleanor Penny unpack neoliberal attitudes to migration and ’low-value’ humans.
Presiding over an otherwise vacuous Conservative conference characterized by empty ‘techno-utopian babble’, Sajid Javid and Theresa May did announce one big policy intended to rally its base, the (...)
Original founders of Anti-Nazi League and Rock Against Racism outline steps to defend multiracial and diverse society
All of us who are committed to a tolerant, multiracial and multicultural society face a growing and serious challenge from the racist and fascist right in the UK, encouraged by (...)
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