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Migrant workers take their fight for fair visas to parliament
3+ hour, 37+ min ago (775+ words) Migrants workers and members of Unison lobby parliament for fair visas Hundreds of migrant workers travelled from across Britain to push back against the Labour government's cruel crackdown on health and social care workers. Labour wants to triple the time…...
After BBC attack on asylum seekers, LGBT+ campaigners speak out
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1766+ words) On a LGBT+ pride march" The BBC could have decided to expose the real scandal of how asylum seekers are disbelieved, criminalised and mistreated. Instead, it chose to investigate claims that lawyers are coaching asylum seekers to falsely claim to…...
Letters: Workers can stand up to Labour's racist visa plans
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (709+ words) The crisis in social care is nothing new. The introduction of a wait of ten to 15 years for indefinite leave to remain for migrant carers, who are deemed to be low skilled, will exacerbate the crisis. Migrant workers are critical…...
How the British government let refugees drown in the Channel
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (863+ words) Neither the British nor the French coastguards made a serious attempt to save those on the boat At least 27 refugees died on 24 November 2021 in the worst mass drowning in the English Channel on record. An inquiry found this week that…...
Manchester migrants NHS workers fight deportation threat
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (879+ words) Health workers made it into the NHS board meeting (Picture: Socialist Worker) "63 is the difference between Anna staying in the country or being forced to leave in two weeks. She is a healthcare assistant (HCA) at Manchester Foundation Trust (MFT),…...
DOJ activists defy Palestine Action ban outside Ministry of Justice
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (524+ words) Police arrest a DOJ activist in London "Wherever law ends, tyranny begins" is written on the side of the Ministry of Justice in central London. But the law was tyranny as police arrested 50 people outside the ministry on Thursday for…...
The racist Danish policies Labour wants to copy
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (698+ words) The Home Office will be able to confiscate jewellery or other valuables from asylum seekers to cover the costs of processing asylum cases under Labour's new reforms. It is just one of the many ideas borrowed from Denmark's hardline and…...
Refugee speaks out: "Labour's reforms do not create fairness, they create fear'
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (735+ words) Illegal migration is tearing our country apart." These could easily be the words of a far right Reform UK MP. But they are the words of Labour home secretary Shabana Mahmood as she announced a crackdown on immigration on Monday....
Blow to British state as it loses bid to block challenge to Palestine Action ban
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (485+ words) The Home Office has lost its attempt to block the judicial review over the ban of Palestine Action. It's a blow to the British state's despotic clampdown on the Palestine movement. Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori appealed for a judicial…...
Labour has blood on its hands as three refugees die crossing the Channel
9+ mon, 1+ day ago (419+ words) At least two children and an adult died on Wednesday night as they tried to make it to safety in Britain, across the English Channel. They were found off the coast of Sangatte, near Calais. They were probably crushed to…...