It is about organising wherever there are migrant, precarious, low-paid or marginalised workers willing to unite. It is about fighting outsourcing and structural race discrimination, disregard for workers’ rights and mainstream media bias on anti-exploitation struggles. It is about inspiring young people and making trade union history part of British education.
Migrants
Stop strategies of racism and xenophobia
In Brexit Britain, Rishi Sunak still feels the urge to pursue his bizarre plan to address asylum and immigration via his flagship “Stop the Boats” programme. This, in spite of Sunak’s admission in 2022 that he thought the Rwanda plan would be ineffective. Peter Cook* He continues […]
Immigrants at sea in a precarious labour market (1)
In London there are workers of more than 100 nationalities, including native Britons, in precarious conditions. Migrants are always the hardest hit by exploitative working conditions. Lack of interest by Government and some trade unions led to the formation of two independent bilingual trade unions by Latin American workers.
Refugees tried to set themselves on fire in a UK immigration detention camp
The Helen Bamber Foundation (HBF) and Humans for Rights Network (HFRN) have gathered first-hand evidence that the government’s use of RAF Wethersfield airfield as a large ‘open-prison camp’ for refugee men seeking asylum for the last five months has already caused irreparable and profound harm to the residents. The Canary* Some people […]
The growing migration to Panama
The diverse flow of immigrants that enter the Central American country through the border with Colombia tends to continue and grow. Nils Castro “Despite the harshness and lethal nature of the trails that penetrate the Panamanian territory through the jungle, it is expected that the size, morbidity, harmful […]