After more than a decade of a systemic undermining of the public services, the people are organising massively in the public sphere. To counterattack these movements, the Government has proposed to threaten our freedom with the ‘Public Order Bill’. These are uncertain times.
Struggles
Immigrants: voices of the detainees
What happens when a worker is detained by immigration as retaliation for having made a claim for justice in the work place? What are their rights? These are the two primary questions that arose on the 14th May, 2011 during a meeting organised by the Latin American Workers Association (LAWAS) at Southbank University in Elephant and Castle.
Detainees II – Becky: “We can’t accept everything that is done to us”
Poor healthcare, detainees abused by the guards and a system that “breaks your heart” are part of the things this Cameroonian woman lived while being detained in the UK. “It’s people who have been tortured, who are gang raped in their countries”, she explains.
Global solidarity and movement building
Facing the climate crisis, the global pandemic and the wars requires a global movement. For Selma James, the international solidarity is organically born from cooperation with others. According to Selma James, “people must organise 24 hours a day so that people can be active in their own defence”. Juanjo […]
All struggles must be united as we are all oppressed
This is the thinking of Selma James, who advocates the union between feminism, anti-racism and the environmental movements, and for whom a Care Income is an instrument to end poverty, reduce inequalities and protect the planet.