Immigration Follow

Tens of thousands of migrants have been rounded up into detention camps across Greece since August last year. Conditions are horrific.

The skeletal ruins of the old Peiraiki-Patraiki textile factories dominate the landscape south of Patras, Greece’s third city.

Abdullah from Somalia spent six months in a detention camp in Greece. "You are hungry all the time in there," he told Socialist Worker. "At ten in the morning they give you milk that’s thin like water. Then there’s a really small meal at four and another at eight.

Walid from Homs, Syria, fled to Greece to escape war. "I wasn’t part of the uprising in Syria, I just stayed in my house," he told Socialist Worker.

Some 80 percent of the areas that saw local council elections on Thursday of last week have a Tory MP.

Ukip made gains partly by appealing to people who are angry at the mainstream parties.

 The Tories are promising a new onslaught against working class people. And politicians are using Ukip’s recent electoral success as an excuse to scapegoat immigrants.

The Tories are panicking a bit after Ukip took a bite out of their support in local elections on 2 May.

Two people who took part in the 2011 riots have successfully fought against deportation.

The Tories lost 335 councillors in last Thursday's local elections. It was a dismal showing.

Brian Richardson examines the battle lines being drawn around immigration. We also publish an extract from the updated pamphlet Immigration: The Myths Spread to Divide Us that puts the case for opposition to all immigration controls.

Bookmarks are updating and reprinting the pamphlet Immigration: The Myths Spread to Divide Us by Charlie Kimber. Here we reprint an extract: