Tag: asylum
Sunak scraps HS2 project and praises the Ukraine!
GIVING the closing speech at the Tory party conference in Manchester yesterday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was introduced by his billionairess wife, Akshata Murthy. Speaking...
Tory conference splits as preparations for an extra-parliamentary party emerge!
THE Tory Party annual conference opened on Monday and was immediately defined by ministers speaking to a near empty hall, as delegates couldn’t be...
Braverman condemned for rabid attack on the right to asylum!
TORY Home Secretary Braverman came under fire for her rabid attack on refugees and asylum seekers yesterday, with charity ActionAid UK calling her comments...
Vicious Tory Onslaught On Asylum Seekers Condemned
HOME Secretary Braverman issued a vicious onslaught against refugees yesterday, seeking to establish her ultra-right wing credentials ahead of the Tory Party Conference in...
Over 1,000 march for ‘Right to Food’ in Haringey
Haringey Right to Food, organised a Hunger March through Tottenham on Saturday, 23 September. A large crowd gathered outside the Spurs Football Stadium from 12...
Pro-Palestine activities in US & UK campuses facing restrictions!
CONCERNS are rising over restrictions to free speech, academic inquiry, and student activism related to Palestine at universities across the UK. This trend has been...
National Public Sector Strike Called In Greece
The Federation of Greek Public Sector Trade Unions (ADEDY), the Athens and Piraeus Trades Councils and dozens of trade unions have called a 24-hour...
‘Now listen you, you people of NATO. You’re bombing a wall...
AS EUROPE’S migrant crisis grows right across the continent, many in the Russian media are recalling the late Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi’s prophecy made...
400 under-18s disappear from the UK’s government-supervised hotels!
WHEN young Jay (name changed), an Iranian teenager, set foot on UK shores, a myriad of emotions swirled within him: relief, uncertainty, hope, and...
50 MILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN MODERN SLAVERY says the Arthur Svensson...
FIFTY million people live in modern slavery, says the Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights. Modern slavery is hidden in plain sight and...
Tories step up attacks on refugees & their lawyers
THE TORIES threatened refugees who refuse to board the Bibby Stockholm ‘death-trap barge’ with destitution yesterday, while Home Secretary Suella Braverman described their legal...
Tories, with the support of the Labour Party, begin forcing asylum...
THE TORIES kicked off their ‘stop the boats week’ yesterday with the announcement that the first 50 asylum seekers will be forced onto the...
Tories Transport Refugees To ‘Deathtrap Barge!’
REFUGEE charity Care4Calais reported yesterday that it had managed to stop 20 asylum seekers from being forced aboard the Bibby Stockholm ‘deathtrap barge’ anchored...
Labour will keep refugees on barges says Kinnock – while Braverman...
A LABOUR government would continue with the reactionary Tory policy of incarcerating refugees aboard barges moored offshore, according to shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock...
FBU condemns Tory hulk deathtrap for asylum seekers!
‘PRIOR to the Grenfell Tower fire, many concerns were being raised by many groups, including the Fire Brigades Union, about fires in high-rise buildings....
Israel ‘main source of instability in West Asia’
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has condemned the Israeli occupation regime as the main source of instability in West Asia, and warned that the...
More than 200 Palestinians killed by Israel this year!
ISRAELI forces have killed a young Palestinian man in the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus, only a day after they fatally shot...
ANTI-IMMIGRATION BILL DENOUNCED WORLDWIDE says former Syria ambassador Ford
THE passage of the British government’s anti-immigration bill shows that the authorities are desperate to show they have a strategy for limiting illegal migration...
TROUBLES BILL: ‘Provides a blueprint for letting state forces and other...
MPs WERE urged to reject the UK government’s ‘cruel and contemptuous’ Northern Ireland legacy bill as it returned to the House of Commons for...
560,000 have fled the sudan conflict
BORDERing countries must give people fleeing the Sudan conflict immediate access for asylum, says Amnesty International UK. More than 560,000 have fled the ongoing crisis...
Israel continues its terror raid on Jenin refugee camp
ISRAEL continued its terror operation against the Palestinian Jenin refugee camp yesterday, with drones, airstrikes and missiles killing 10 Palestinians and injuring over 100...
Tory plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda illegal!
A COURT RULING that the UK government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful has been welcomed by the charity that challenged...
UNACCEPTABLE! Over 170,000 waiting for asylum claims decision
‘It’s unacceptable that there are now over 170,000 people stuck in limbo as they wait for a decision on their asylum claims – with...
Powerful start to month-long St Mungo strike!
Workers at the homelessness charity St Mungo’s began four weeks of strike action on Tuesday May 30, fighting to win a backdated pay rise...
French Riot Police Tear Gas Climate Demonstrators
French police have fired tear gas to disperse climate demonstrators gathered in Paris to raise their voices against an annual general meeting of oil...
Tory policy is to drive the sick back to work to...
THE drive by the Tories and their media supporters to demonise workers and the sick, as the root cause of the crisis that is...
‘Macron has destroyed our social services’ say French protesters
FOR the first time since massive regular protests began in January, the French government has held discussions with union leaders regarding the two year...
UN to cut aid to Rohingya in the world’s largest refugee...
n a development that has sparked widespread concern, the United Nations has announced plans to reduce the food supplies it provides to the Rohingya...
25,000 held in US customs on Mexican border
DESPITE the end of the United States Title 42 border restrictions, obstacles and the lack of legal options to reach the US will continue to have a serious...
RCN delegates strongly back Cullen’s YES vote call
DELEGATES at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Annual Congress at the Brighton Conference Centre cheered and gave General Secretary Pat Cullen a standing...
Powerful May Day March Calls Kick The Tories Out! Forward To...
THERE was a powerful May Day March from Clarkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square yesterday with more than 10,000 trade unionists, workers, youth and students...
Tory Asylum Bill will see refugee children locked up!
THE TORY government’s new asylum bill will allow thousands of refugee children who are separated from their parents to be locked up, according to...
With their anti-migrants and anti-trade union laws the Tories are the...
On Monday, over 180 UK health professionals and representatives from leading medical bodies sent a letter to Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak denouncing the...
150,000 public sector workers strike – manning 250 picket lines across...
WITH 250 picket lines across the country, 155,000 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada – who have been without a contract for...
‘Horrific damage done to the Windrush Generation compounded!’ – Tory-run compensation...
THE UK’s ‘hostile environment’ means that its compensation scheme is failing Windrush victims, says a Human Rights Watch report published on Monday. HWR said: The...
Tory threat to national NHS pay structure is ‘of huge concern’...
UNISON has reaffirmed its commitment to the One Team campaign for the health service, in the face of the government’s ‘divisive’ actions during the...
‘SAFE PASSAGE TO THE UK!’ – demand 30 top trade union...
REFUGEE support campaign group Care4Calais published an open letter yesterday, signed by 30 top trade union leaders, demanding Safe Passage to the UK. Tory plans...
TUC stands idly by watching the Tories bringing in anti-union laws...
PRIME Minister Rishi Sunak met Benjamin Netanyahu at Downing Street yesterday, just as the Israeli leader faces a huge crisis at home after he...
Big Workers Protest As Netanyahu & Tories Meet
ON FRIDAY, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside Downing Street in central London to protest the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was...
Putin Defies The Imperialists Diktat And Visits Mariupol Promising To Rapidly...
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has visited Mariupol and vowed that new comfortable residential quarters for the people will continue being constructed in Mariupol in...
Solidarity action over Lineker sacking causes Tories to crumble – now...
BOTH the BBC and the Tories were in a state of meltdown over the weekend following the decision of the BBC bosses, urged on...
‘The only way forward is a general strike’ – insists Newcastle...
MORE than 10,000 NHS workers, other trade unionists and members of the public marched from UCLH hospital in Euston, central London, to a mass...
The trade unions must defend Lineker and take action to sack...
AN unrepentant Gary Lineker insisted yesterday that he stood fully with his tweets condemning the Tory ‘Illegal Migrants Bill’ and that he has no...
UN condemns Tories
THE United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has condemned the Tory government for illegally ‘extinguishing the right to seek refugee protection in the UK’. The UNHC...
Defend right to asylum – defend right to strike – general...
YESTERDAY the Tories unveiled their ‘Illegal Migration Bill’ along with the admission that the bill itself is illegal under international law, not that this...