Migrants

Migrants

• US Shutdown: Trump’s racism hits the wall

  

  As the shutdown becomes the longest in US history, Sean Ledwith reports on the consequences of Trump's racist antics

• Rage at the Home Office - solidarity with the Stansted 15

  

  The courage of the Stansted 15 in stopping this cruel deportation flight is an inspiration, not a crime, argues Ellen Graubart, reporting on the protest outside the Home Office

• Trump's teargas and racist brutality at the US-Mexico border

  

  As the Migrant Caravan arrived at the US border, they were met with heavy tear gas and rubber bullets in a show of inhumane violence, John Clarke reports

• Migrant Caravan: Trump sends 5000 troops to stop refugees

  

  Thousands of troops have been sent to the US border as Trump vows to stop the Migrant Caravan, reports John Clarke

• Cleaners go on strike and win an early victory

  

  Cleaners have begun three days of coordinated strike action for a living wage and sick pay, and have won one victory already reports Jonathan Maunders

• Failed: what two decades of the refugee crisis could not teach Europe

  

  Europe's failure to deal with the refugee crisis is resulting in more deaths in the Mediterranean and the growth of the far right argues Eleftheria Kousta

• After Windrush: this racist government must go - Counterfire Freesheet May 2018

  

  Windrush, May 68, Palestine, UCU strike, Marx and more - Counterfire freesheet edition 025, May 2018

• Rudd down, May to go

  

  Amber Rudd resigning because of popular pressure is a victory and a reminder that what the left does can make a decisive difference argues Chris Nineham

• Farming and free movement: a socialist approach to the crisis 


  

  The Left should reject calls by the farmers’ industry body to continue the system of low pay and unsustainability

• Sound system solidarity: Bristol marches against ‘Muslim Ban’

  

  On Saturday Bristolians marched against Trump's 'Muslim Ban' and 'Theresa the Appeaser'. Owen Lloyd-Jones reports on the sound system powered demonstration

• A defence of the free movement of labour

  

  Low wages are not caused by immigration, but by a profoundly anti-working class economic approach, writes Richard Allday

• Why we demand free movement of people

  

  We cannot give ground to the racists but must defend free movement of people as one of the most basic of rights

• Free movement: taking the arguments forward

  

  Internationalism is the key to striking back against the bosses’ Brexit, asserts Cameron Panting

• Calais: Europe's shame

  

  The closure of the Calais camp is an act of barbarity, but solidarity with refugees remains strong, argues Shabbir Lakha  

• Brexit strategy: power, class and a government adrift

  

  The insights of the great Italian revolutionary Antonio Gramsci come into immediate focus as Chris Bambery reflects upon the present predicaments of our ruling class

• The immigration issue: how should the left respond?

  

  The left must be uncompromising in asserting some fundamental arguments against immigration controls, racism and austerity, argues Kevin Ovenden

• The Orlando massacre was a homophobic act

  

  We cannot let the massacre in Orlando be used to stoke up homophobia and Islamophobia, argues Lindsey German

• The EU vote: this is what a social crisis looks like

  

  Tail-ending the Cameron Remain campaign is hemorrhaging working class support for Labour and the left, argues John Rees

• Fortress Europe: Inside the War Against Immigration

  

  Matthew Carr’s Fortress Europe is a powerful indictment of the inhumanity of the EU’s policies towards refugees, argues Tom Griffiths

• Government to blame for nurse shortage

  

  Student nurse Anthony Johnson responds to the Migrant Advisory Committee's advice on migrant nurses in the UK

• Unite across borders against racism and Fascism

  

  We must use every opportunity to build a united movement against racism

• Migration and the edge of international law

  

  Elliot Murphy argues that Britain leaving the EU means a break with Fortress Europe and allows the possibility of a coherent migration policy

• Brexit: In or Out? Podcast

  

  Lindsey German and Marina Prentoulis join James Butler and Aaron Bastani to discuss Britain's forthcoming referendum on EU membership

• The end of liberal Europe

  

  In so far as it was ever a reality, the era of a liberalising Europe with diminished national tensions and ethnic conflict is over, writes Kevin Ovenden

• Refugees, solidarity and anti-racism

  

  Tens of thousands of refugees have organised and triggered a wave of social solidarity which in some countries is unprecedented writes Kevin Ovenden

• Western wars and the new generation of refugees

  

  The West's wars have played a central part in the refugee crisis, says Lindsey German

• 'Marauding migrants': demonising the victims of western wars

  

  The migrant crisis is not a threat to Britain but a human catastrophe for those fleeing for their lives, often as a result of Western intervention

• Migrants, war and the European Union

  

  Chris Nineham goes beyond the sensationalist newspaper front pages to explain the real issues around migration and what is driving it

• Migrants welcome here

  

  With the focus of hatred aimed at migrants the elite culprits of society's problems hide behind racism

• The EU declares war on migrants

  

  We must end a foreign policy that is causing mayhem and misery across vast swathes of the globe

• Katie Hopkins' comments about migrants drowning are hate speech we can't ignore

  

  Rather than being ignored, Hopkins should be sacked as a columnist and the Sun should be hauled before the authorities for providing a platform for explicitly racist speech