refugees welcome
Scuppered—Katie Hopkins and the nautical Nazi people smugglers
01 August 2017A gaggle of far right fools have managed to make a mess of “Defending Europe”.
Lebanese socialist activists targeted after call for solidarity with Syrian refugees
17 July 2017Activists from the Socialist Forum in Lebanon are facing a campaign of threats and intimidation after they called for a protest in solidarity with Syrian refugees.
Let the refugees in
20 June 2017As many as 600 refugees again face homelessness and repression at Calais because they have nowhere else to go
The death toll of the border grows
06 June 2017Days before the election Britain’s border controls killed again. Kim, a Vietnamese refugee, killed himself in a French hospital last Wednesday.
The Other Side Of Hope puts refugees’ struggles in a cold context
06 June 2017Well over a million people have been shoved through Europe’s “reception centres” since the refugee crisis began in 2015. Yet it’s remarkable how little impact this has had on the big screen.
Mobilise against racism after new refugee deaths
06 June 2017After a new refugee tragedy underlined the urgent need to challenge racist immigration laws, anti-racists are preparing to protest straight after the general election on Thursday.
Massacres made by the West
30 May 2017Two massacres of civilians, including children, each on a greater scale than the Manchester bombing took place last week—and the West was directly involved in both.
Refugees clash with police after Grande-Synthe fire leaves hundreds homeless
18 April 2017Clashes with police erupted after the Grande-Synthe refugee camp was burnt down, and the EU has been blasted for turning a blind eye to refugees
Solidarity with refugees after Dunkirk fire
11 April 2017A refugee camp near Dunkirk in northern France burned down on Monday. Some 1,500 people are now in desperate conditions and fearing deportation.
Western powers cynically use massacre in Syria to further their own interests
04 April 2017The world’s imperialist powers are arguing about how to turn a massacre in Syria with poison gas to their advantage—and make the lot of Syrians even worse.
Croydon race hate attack fuelled by Tory lies
04 April 2017A vicious racist attack in Croydon, south London, has left a young refugee with a fractured skull, a fractured spine and a blood clot on his brain.
‘Going back isn’t possible’ —refugee slams new rules
14 March 2017The Home Office quietly pulled the rug out from under thousands of refugees with new rules last week.
Tories under pressure over migrants and refugees
07 March 2017As the Tories come under increasing pressure to stop using European Union (EU) migrants as bargaining chips, activists across Britain are building for anti-racist demonstrations.
Welcome refugees—not Donald Trump
14 February 2017A tide of hatred for US president Donald Trump has isolated Theresa May in her insistence on bringing the bigot-in-chief to Britain.
Lord Dubs slams Tory decision to shut out child refugees
09 February 2017The same Tory government that’s opening the door to bigot-in-chief Donald Trump slammed it in the face of lone child refugees this week.
Big anti-racist demos welcome refugee children into Greek schools
03 February 2017Big demonstrations welcomed around 500 refugee children to school in the port city of Piraeus, near Athens in Greece, last Tuesday.
Tories’ immigration system is a racist hell for refugees
31 January 2017If people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria or Yemen arrive in Britain without the right visa they risk deportation or detention.
EU abandons refugees to freeze to death
10 January 2017Refugees on the Greek island of Lesvos had their thin summer tents covered in snow this week, as a deadly cold spell swept across Europe.
Chopper close shave shows why offshore workers' fight for safety is needed
10 January 2017A helicopter shuttling workers between the Elgin and West Franklin platforms ran into difficulties resulting in the chopper coming inches away from falling into the sea, an offshore worker writes
Fight to open the borders as refugee dies in France
03 January 2017A 17 year old Congolese refugee died at the French port of Dunkirk on Christmas Eve in the 17th known death at Britain’s border in 2016.
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