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Not content with demonising refugees, Tory home secretary Theresa May has gone on the offensive against all migrants.

At least 400 refugees died last week because governments refuse to let them into Europe.

Many politicians would have us believe that working class people are racist. They say they talk about immigration so much to address people’s “real concerns”.

Thousands of refugees forced open the border between Greece and Macedonia last Saturday. 

Refugees are arriving every night on the Greek island Samos. Most are from Syria, others are from Iraq and Afghanistan. And for the first time last week I met Yemeni refugees. 

Refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war are facing new dangers as they approach Greece’s islands from Turkey.

People in Britain are organising solidarity with the Calais refugees in response to the politicians’ and media’s racist attacks. 

The Tories’ attempts to scapegoat refugees reached a new low this week when millionaire foreign secretary Philip Hammond complained about African migrants “marauding” around Calais.

Weyman Bennett, joint national secretary of the Stand Up to Racism campaign, joined migrants on a solidarity protest in Calais last Saturday. He spoke to Socialist Worker

When the Tories say they want to charge people not born in Britain for NHS care we know this can be the first step towards bringing in charging everyone.

A series of bloody conflicts right across the world lie at the roots of the current refugee crisis.

Queues of lorries choke the streets of Dover in Kent. They tail back from the port town, through Kent’s roads and onto the M20 motorway.