One year in Erskine
Nathan Hennebry discusses the Erskine hotel demonstrations of the past year and how deprived communities can fight for their living standards.
Over seventy refugee children missing in Hove
According to Sussex police, in the last six months, seventy children have disappeared from hotel accommodations run by the Home Office across Hove.
37 refugees killed at Melilla border
37 African refugees have been killed at the hands of border guards after hundreds attempted to rush into the Spanish coastal enclave of Melilla, an autonomous city located on the northern border of Morocco, last Friday (24 June)
Tory Borders Bill passes in Commons, threatening rights of millions
The Tory government’s Nationality and Borders Bill has passed its third reading in the House of Commons
Tory policy on channel crossings will only lead to more deaths
Following the the deaths of 27 people in the English channel this week, the Conservative government have demonstrated nothing but a callous and dangerous attitude towards the plight of refugees.
World Federation of Democratic Youth: imperialism is responsible for more than 80 million refugees globally
The World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) issued a statement marking World Refugee Day 2021.
“This year we face World Refugee Day with the shocking fact that the threshold of 80 million refugees and forced migrants (82.4 million) has been overcome in 2021 …
Home Office undermines investigations into deaths in detention
Amid the renewed onslaught against asylum seekers and immigrants, new claims have emerged that suggest many potential key witnesses to deaths in detention have been deliberately deported, preventing them from giving evidence in inquests. Furthermore, the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has ignored the concerns from a coroner, voiced last year, that the actions of the Home Office could have impaired investigations.
Sharp increase in modern slavery during the pandemic
Amid the pandemic, reports of sexual and criminal exploitation have severely increased, as stated in new figures calculating the extent of modern slavery and trafficking in the UK. Compared with the preceding year, cases of sexual exploitation, which includes people held captive in brothels and those strong-armed into prostitution, increased by a quarter in 2020. Almost a quarter of cases concerned children.
Communist Party issues call for non-racist immigration and nationality laws
The Communist Party has issued a statement calling for new immigration laws to end decades of racist legislation and the Tories’ ‘hostile environment’, and, setting out the Party’s principles on immigration.
Home Office scheme to deport non-UK rough sleepers relaunched
A contentious program that employs councils and homelessness charities to glean personal data has been quietly reinstituted by the Home Office, potentially causing the deportation of non-UK rough sleepers. Since the relaunch six months ago, two charities and six councils have enrolled in the scheme, as reported by Liberty Investigates, a journalism group of the human rights organisation Liberty.