Tag: asylum
Forced labour for ex-Calais children
REFUGEE children sent from the demolished ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais are being used as forced labour in fruit farms, a charity has claimed. So far...
‘MAY MUST GO!’ say 15,000 students and lecturers
OVER 15,000 students, lecturers and supporters marched through central London on Saturday to demand free education for all. The largest education demonstration in years was...
‘IF TRUMP IS GOING TO FIGHT THE TERRORISTS – WE WILL...
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to RTP TV channel on 16 November 2016. Question 1: Mr. President, let’s start with Aleppo if you don’t...
Human Rights Civil Servants Are On Strike Today
CIVIL servants working for the government’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) are on strike today over crippling cuts to their service: a quarter...
‘Working class must follow example of October 1917’
A POWERFUL News Line 47th Anniversary and 76th Anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s Assassination Rally, with 200 workers, students and youth in attendance, was held...
Almost all Calais refugee children suffer post-traumatic stress
ALMOST all of the children who have spent time in the so-called ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais for refugees have a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),...
Refugees Are Welcome Here
‘HAVE a heart London,’ chanted a whole crowd of Refugees Welcome demonstrators waving red hearts on the Millennium Bridge over the River Thames yesterday. One...
France & UK halt child transfers
THE HOME Office announced yesterday that the transfer of refugee children from Calais to Britain has been halted while the destruction of the camp...
12,000 police plus troops ready to assault Calais ‘camp’
TENSIONS were high in the ‘Jungle’ Calais refugee camp yesterday as defiant occupants braced themselves for today’s scheduled closure. There were clashes with French...
Workers must welcome all refugees and fight alongside them to get...
THE FRENCH government is to raze the Calais refugee camp to the ground ‘within days’, forcibly removing every man, woman and child. After six months...
Women denied treatment
MIDWIVES, doctors and patients alike are up in arms over moves to deny pregnant women NHS treatment. St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south west...
Sixty-nine million more teachers needed by 2030 to educate every...
THIS year’s World Teachers’ Day, which takes place every October 5th, marked the 50th anniversary of the ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the status of teachers,...
World leaders spectacularly failing 21 million refugees says Amnesty
WORLD leaders are spectacularly failing refugees, says Amnesty International UK in its latest report Tackling Global World Refugee Crisis – from Shirking to Shared...
UK must take in 400 Calais camp children – urges UNICEF
UNICEF UK is appealing to the British government to speed up the transfer of unaccompanied child refugees from the ‘Jungle’ refugee camp in Calais. The...
US-UK air attack on Syrian army ‘definitely intentional’ says Assad
SANA, the Syrian state news agency, is showing an interview with President Assad by Associated Press and the current ceasefire crisis. We are very...
Barbaric massacre of hundreds of Palestinian refugees – 34 years since...
MARKING 34 years since the 1982 massacre of Palestinian civilians in Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon last Friday, Saeb Erekat, secretary...
2,500 refugees’ lifejackets placed outside parliament
OVER 2,500 lifejackets were placed on the lawn outside parliament, in Parliament Square yesterday, each representing the life of a refugee man, woman or...
French Workers & Youth Fighting Hollande’s Anti-Union Legislation
FIERCE battles broke out between French workers and police as over 170,000 workers, students and youth took to the streets in 110 cities across...
15,000 Greek Workers March Against Syriza Coalition!
OVER 15,000 workers and youth marched last Saturday in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on the opening of a trade fair, demanding an end to the...
Syria rejects rebel ‘peace plan!’
THE Syrian government has dismissed a peace proposal from the umbrella group representing Syria’s US and UK backed political and armed opposition. The opposition’s High...
5 Million Syrian Refugees Since 2011
MORE than 90,000 Syrian refugee children in Jordan weren’t able to attend school last year, along with hundreds of thousands in neighbouring refugee host...
Burston marchers call for a general strike!
LABOUR Party leader Jeremy Corbyn welcomed the contribution of refugees and overseas workers in the NHS when he addressed a 1,500-strong Burston Strike...
G20 talks dominated by world crisis, and the fear of world...
THE initial stages of the G20 talks in China were yesterday dominated by the world crisis of capitalism, the sharpening antagonisms that this crisis...
Obama-Erdogan To Meet Over Syria At G20
THE Turkish government warned on Monday that it would carry out more strikes on the previously US-backed Kurdish militia in Syria if it fails...
Capitalist leaders have lost confidence in the system and are preparing...
THESE are fearful times for the leaders of EU capitalism. The fear factor is not just present in Brussels. Admiral Alan West, who...
Child refugees in squalid conditions in Calais refugee camp
CHILD refugees languishing in squalid conditions in camps in Calais without their parents or any family member to look after them urgently need...
Armed Greek riot police raid refugee centres
GREEK armed riot police squads raided in the early morning of last Wednesday three buildings in the northern city of Thessaloniki where refugees were...
Syria’s victory over the imperialist powers will transform Middle East
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad confirmed yesterday that his government will pardon all ‘militants’ who turn in their weapons, stressing that the policy has been...
US union wins right to boycott Israel
THE UNITED Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) earlier this summer won a major battle in the courts that recognises the UE’s...
Let child refugees in to UK! – Demands damning MPs committee...
‘SIGNIFICANT numbers’ of child refugees must be ‘promptly taken in by the UK and cared for’ a Parliamentary committee has demanded. The UK’s European Union...
Richest countries not helping refugees
‘IT is shameful that, as one of the richest economies, the UK has provided shelter for less than one per cent of refugees,’...
‘A Gift from God’ Erdogan describes coup attempt!
TURKEY’S President Erdogan has called the just concluded coup attempt that saw parliament bombed and 250 people killed ‘a gift from God... because this...
Violence Against Refugees On The Hungary-Serbia Border!
UN REFUGEE Agency UNHCR is concerned about Hungary’s new restrictive law, amid increased reports of violence, and a deterioration of the situation at border...
Two Years Since Israel’s Invasion Of Gaza!
SOME 900 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to require medical attention as a result of permanent disabilities they sustained during Israel’s devastating 51-day...
‘Opposition must be Syrian opposition,’ says Assad
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has given an extensive interview with Australian TV channel SBS. In the interview, he covered such topics as Brexit, the hypocrisy...
Greek dockers fight privatisation
DOCKWORKERS of the two main Greek ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki have completed one month of strike action against privatisation and consequent dramatic change...
Vote ‘Leave’ – Bring Down Cameron – Forward To Socialist United...
THE mass of the working class and the majority of the middle class must vote to ‘Leave’ the EU today to strike a body...
Turkey and Israel are set to announce ‘normalisation’
TURKEY and Israel are to announce an agreement on the normalisation of bilateral ties, ending six years of a freeze in relations, after a...
250-strong Calais convoy halted by UK police and the French government!
‘WITH our aid, let us through! Refugees are human too!’ hundreds of angry protesters demanded after their 250-vehicle strong Convoy to Calais was blocked...
Fortress Israel, armed by the USA, brings in new anti-Palestinian laws...
THE US and Israel have been engaged in intense negotiations for many months to outline America’s military aid to Israel for the next decade. Washington...
Palestinian gagged after winning the ‘Speak Out’ Challenge!
A PALESTINIAN-British schoolgirl Leanne Mohamad, who was crowned regional finalist in the ‘Speak Out’ Challenge has been barred from progressing further in the competition...
‘We demand a Palestinian state’ says President Abbas
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas announced during a meeting in Cairo on Saturday that the focus of the Paris International Peace Conference would be centred...
Greek Dockers Strike Against Privatisation
GREEK dockworkers at the two main Greek ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki began 48-hour ‘rolling’ strikes on Thursday against the privatisation of the ports. Athens...
Royal Navy warship sent to the Med to force refugee boats...
YESTERDAY, David Cameron formally announced that the Tory government would be sending a Royal Navy warship to the coast of Libya as part of...
Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe
THE EU IS IN DESPERATE CRISIS with the established political order breaking apart in country after country, from Ireland and the UK to Austria, Greece...