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"I work in a factory of 500, almost all of them migrant workers like myself. When I started there were only about 30 or 40 people in the union, and no union recognition.

The Tories know that their austerity policies will hurt ordinary people and that this will make them unpopular.

Men, women and children are being forcibly deported by the Tories. This is the reality of the government’s propaganda about immigrants and family life

The Tories pose as the party of the family. But they are choosy about which families they defend.

A detained asylum seeker died after being denied medical attention following a heart attack, an inquest has heard.

An extradition hearing for Roma activist Toma Nikolaev was held at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday of this week.

A leading Roma activist based in Britain is facing extradition to Bulgaria—where his life will be in danger from racists.

Campaigners for refugees in Glasgow scored two successes last week. Angeline Pirira Mwafulirwa and her children were released from custody after being arrested in a dawn raid.

Up to 140 refugees in Glasgow face destitution as responsibility for housing vulnerable people passes to the multinational security firm Serco.

In this article from 1986, Duncan Hallas takes up the argument that the American working class has been historically immune to socialist ideas. One of the most important developments over the last year has been the revival of radical movements in the US. The uprising in Wisconsin, the Occupy movement, the Oakland shutdown and now the protests over the killing of Trayvon Martin (see Jonathan Neale in this issue of Socialist Review) all point to a new mood. American workers have long presented an enigma for socialists. Why has the most powerful working class in the world never been able to create even a mass Labour-type party (the Democratic Party has always been a purely capitalist party). Hallas explains how the conditions of American capitalism initially acted to prevent the emergence of stable working class organisation and to limit the influence of socialist ideas, but argues this no longer applies.

Amanpreet Kaur is an Indian lesbian whose application for asylum has been denied. She was due to be deported on Thursday of last week.