Immigration Follow

Dave Sewell looks at how racist scapegoating and migrant deaths are bound up with the bosses’ European Union—and argues the alternative lies in workers’ solidarity

Workers have no interest in maintaining controls on migration—they exist to protect the powerful and should be scrapped

European leaders pledged more money to patrol the Mediterranean Sea after the deaths of 1,300 refugees in just one week last month.

Protesters gathered across Europe in solidarity with migrants last week. In London hundreds protested outside European Union (EU) commission near parliament in central London last Saturday.

Nigel Farage has said he will step down as Ukip leader “within ten minutes” if he is not elected MP in the general election.

Politicians let 1,300 people die in just one week rather than look ‘soft’ on immigration, reports Ken Olende

The deaths of more than 1,300 people in only one week in the Mediterranean Sea has been called a tragedy. It is. But it is not a natural or inevitable one. 

Over 200 demonstrators gathered outside Harmondsworth Immigration Detention Centre, near Heathrow airport last Saturday to demand the closure of all detention centres

A detainee who took part in protests at the Verne immigration detention centre in Dorset last month is being held in segregation.

Detainees in Dungavel Detention Centre in Lanarkshire took to its grounds last week to join a solidarity demonstration taking place outside.

Several party leaders marked the start of the official general election campaign by droning on about immigration.

As protests spread inside the brutal centres where refugees are locked up, current and former detainees tell Ken Olende the hell needs to end.