The notion that immigration is putting workers' wages under pressure is widely accepted even among some on the left. Yet this argument is both dangerous and wrong.
Movement Against Xenophobia is set to host a conference to resist the Tory attacks on migrants. Speakers include Jeremy Corbyn MP.
Day tickets £10 (£20 solidarity price, £2 for low waged/unwaged).
Saturday 15 March, 10am, SOAS Vernon Square Campus, Penton Rise, London WC1X 9EW.
The Tories are continuing to bash migrants with nasty new measures restricting access to benefits. But people are getting organised to say no to scapegoating, says Ken Olende
Migrant workers at a central London university are getting ready to strike for the right to sick pay, holidays and pensions. They told Raymie Kiernan how long hours and tough conditions haven’t stopped them fighting back
Over 200,000 people have signed a petition started by Bristol school student Fahma Mohamed demanding government action over Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
Unite against Fascism (UAF) supporters protested in Manchester against the Nazis and Ukip during the Wythenshawe and Sale East by-election on Thursday of last week.
The government and UK Border Agency’s treatment of asylum seekers is appalling—but campaigns give people confidence. Refugee Manjeet Kaur explains why to Ken Olende
Armed police and locals with machetes, pipes, sticks and stones have attacked asylum seekers in Australia’s offshore detention centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (PNG).
Ken Olende demolishes the new arguments put forward by liberal commentators about the "dangers" of immigration, and the intellectual cover they give to right wing ideas over race.
MPs passed the third reading of the government’s draconian Immigration Bill in parliament last week. The media has focused on a number of Tory amendments that tried to drag it even further to the right.
