Immigration Follow

The GMB union held a protest outside Next’s warehouse in South Elmsall, west Yorkshire on Friday of last week. The protest coincided with a national tour calling on Next to pay workers the Living Wage. 

David Cameron’s speech on immigration last week talked about the need for “firm control”, but represented a change in tack for the Tories.

The Daily Mirror newspaper ran a divisive front page last week blaming migrants for unemployment.

Up to 100 detainees at the Campsfield immigration detention centre near Oxford protested last weekend against the beating of a fellow inmate.

Newly-elected ukip MP Mark Reckless let the cat out of the bag last week when he revealed Ukip policy to repatriate migrants.

Now there is no doubt. We have to take the threat of Ukip very seriously and the left has to get its act together. We need more resistance to Ukip and austerity, and a united left.

A new report has exposed how ‘facts’ about immigration have been twisted to paint migrants as a burden

The trial for manslaughter of three guards who restrained Jimmy Mubenga during his forced deportation has begun at the Old Bailey in London.

Anti-racists are organising against Ukip in the run-up to the Rochester and Strood by-election on 20 November.

Ukip immobilised the government in parliament last week, when the Tories created an unnecessary row over a vote they could easily have won.

European government ministers’ calls to end patrols in the Mediterranean to rescue migrants stranded at sea is just business as usual, argues Annette Mackin

Some argue that discrimination against eastern Europeans is not racist because they are white. But, as Ken Olende explains, racism goes beyond colour prejudices