Calais

Calais

• There's no refugee crisis in Britain, only a hostile environment and racist scapegoating

  

  The current Tory-manufactured “refugee crisis” is part of the same hostile environment that this government has created for its own citizens, argues Cathy Augustine

• Extreme Podiatry: the situation for refugees in Calais and Dunkirk

  

  The Jungle camp may have been demolished a year ago but refugees are still arriving in Calais and Dunkirk and suffering in intolerable conditions reports David Bailey

• Threads: From the Refugee Crisis - review

  

  Threads is the story of the Calais refugees, and the growing crisis that the world ignores to humanity’s peril, writes Ellen Graubart

• Voices from the 'Jungle': Stories from the Calais Refugee Camp - review

  

  The stories of the Calais refugees reveal their struggles and solidarity, as well as their experiences of racism and oppression, finds Tom Griffiths

• Calais: Europe's shame

  

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

• Calais: the British government's abject failure

  

  The government is not just being bureaucratic, it’s deliberately shirking its responsibilities, argues Shabbir Lakha

• Message from London to UN summit: Refugees welcome here

  

  As world leaders prepare for the UN summit on refugees and protesters mobilise in London, Shabbir Lakha looks at some of the issues involved

• A beacon of hope in dark times

  

  Shabbir Lakha reports on the Convoy to Calais, which the French police shamefully turned back at the border

• 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

• All roads lead to Calais

  

  We need working class solidarity in support of the refugees - John Westmoreland reports on building the convoy in Doncaster

• Why you should be on the Convoy to Calais

  

  Major mass movements in Britain are collecitvely organising a Convoy to Calais. Now is the time for solidarity with refugees 

• Getting the Convoy to Calais rolling in Doncaster

  

  Things are changing quickly, and activists who want to shape events need to keep up, writes John Westmoreland

• At the borders of humanity

  

  Shadia Edwards-Dashti reports on a delegation from England and Scotland to the refugee camp near Calais on Saturday

• 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