Immigration Follow

Operation Centurion has targeted many migrants working without papers. But it has not been the big success the Tories had planned.

Bruno Dos Santos, a stateless asylum seeker, died in Verne prison on the island of Portland in Dorset last week.

The shock results for Ukip are dragging mainstream politics further to the right, including the Labour Party. Mark L Thomas argues that this can only give a further boost to the racists.

The Tories’ latest racist ­crackdown on undocumented workers, Operation Centurion, began on Monday of this week. Raids were taking place as Socialist Worker went to press.

Many Labour Party politicians have used every opportunity since Ukip’s success in the May elections to declare their anti-immigrant credentials.

Trade union general secretaries have joined Labour MP Diane Abbott and anti-racist activists to officially launch Stand Up to Ukip. 

Asylum seekers marched the 50 miles from Bristol to Cardiff last week to protest against government attacks on migrants.

Noluvuyo is a migrant worker who worked illegally in Britain after fleeing domestic violence in South Africa. She’s just one of thousands of migrant workers who has lived the reality behind politicians’ racist rhetoric.

The government’s planned crackdown on undocumented workers is set to go ahead from Monday morning of next week. Operation Centurion was exclusively revealed in this week’s Socialist Worker.

We can exclusively reveal a secret government plan to unleash a torrent of raids on hundreds of workplaces across Britain. Named Operation Centurion it is a major two-week crackdown on immigrants without papers set to be launched on Monday 2 June. 

More than 21,000 people have signed a petition in support of a teenager with Down’s Syndrome held by police in a cell for nine hours and then cautioned. 

Mainstream parties are happy to let racist attacks on migrants go unchallenged, writes Ken Olende