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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 them (...)
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 (...)
UK research finds levels of discrimination unchanged since late 1960s
Black Britons and those of south Asian origin face “shocking” discrimination in the labour market at levels unchanged since the late 1960s, research has found.
A study by experts based at the Centre for Social Investigation (...)
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 (...)
Showing solidarity with Palestinians brings condemnation, while complicity in the Israeli occupation is seen as acceptable
In November 2004, Britain’s foreign secretary Jack Straw laid a wreath at the grave of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. How might this have been framed with the current Labour leader? Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon saw Arafat as a “Jew murderer”. According to the Israeli minister of parliamentary affairs at the time, Danny Naveh, Arafat was “personally (...)
Briton Tom Dupré leaves Generation Identity camp in France after being told by Observer of member linked to racist attacks
Supporters and members of Generation Identity at a rally in London last month. Photograph: Alamy
A clandestine meeting of Europe’s “hipster far right” was plunged into (...)
Union’s chief says party is ‘knocking lumps out of each other’ when it should be exploiting Tory divisions
The leader of one of the UK’s largest trade unions has urged Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party to finally adopt an international antisemitism definition and end infighting.
Tim Roache, general secretary of the GMB union, said the party was “knocking lumps out of each other” when it should be exploiting divisions in the Tory party.
“Antisemitism is a problem in the Labour party. I’ve been (...)
National executive committee only considered a minority of cases before disputes panel because of time constraints
Leaked Labour disciplinary papers have laid bare the scale of the challenge the party’s governing body faces in tackling antisemitism.
The paperwork, seen by the Guardian, was (...)
There is plenty of evidence that caste-based discrimination exists within Indian diasporic communities. Recognising and engaging with this discrimination is crucial instead of attempting to sweep it under the carpet.
On 24 July, the National Commission of Hindu Temples (NCHT), UK asserted that (...)
I knew I recognised the name when I saw the headlines.
Like many socialists, I knew of Hajo Meyer long before he was being disinterred and turned into a hideous scarecrow to frighten people with.
I had read his words long before I heard the weasel words about his words. It’s horrifying to see (...)
The List, part of Liverpool Biennial, disappeared from hoardings in the city
An artwork featuring a list of the 34,361 refugees and migrants who have lost their lives trying to reach Europe has been destroyed in Liverpool.
The list, which the Guardian published as a special supplement in (...)
Pro-Corbyn group says activist’s remarks about Jewish ‘Trump fanatics’ were ‘deeply insensitive and inappropriate’
Momentum has dropped Peter Willsman from its slate for the elections to Labour’s ruling body after he suggested Jewish “Trump fanatics” were behind accusations of antisemitism in the (...)
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