The issue of migrants has been very important for the RCN. The RCN was central to getting the SSP to support the free movement of people and affiliating to ‘No One Is Illegal’.  After ceasing to be a platform in the SSP on June 22nd 2012 , the RCN continued placing emphasis on the importance of work in supporting migrants. It raised the issue of migrants in the Radical Independence Campaign, in the Brexit campaign, and our successor organisation, the Republican Communist Forum continues to do so in ‘the context of ‘Brexit Britain’ and the rise of the Hard and Far Right.

 

MIGRANTS AND MIGRANT RIGHTS

Jewish refugee groups condemn Illegal Immigration Bill and government language – Anita Mureithi, openDemocracy

Just when you thought that Britain couldn’t get any more racist, the Tories bring in the Illegal Migration Bill – Eliza Egret, The Canary

Berlin elections: racist campaign pushes city to the Right – Nathaniel Flakin, Left Voice (USA)

BBC News changed a headline to make Keir Starmer look slightly less racist – Stephen Topple, The Canary

Immigration: who benefits, who suffers? – Susan Rosenthal blog

From San Antonio to Palestine, from Melilla to the Polish border: united for a world without walls – Stop the Wall, Urgent Newsletter no. 3

Over 50 migrants found dead in Texas: Biden has blood on his hands – Robert Belano, Left Voice (USA)

The human cargo of voluntary departure – Mike Small, bella caledonia

Repression of migrants at the Poland/Belarus border, a humanitarian crisis caused by imperialism – Frank Levine, Left Voice (USA)

Glasgow protest against the Nationality and Borders bill – Maria Elena Carpentero Torreds-Quevedo, bella caledonia 

The aftermath of Kenmure Street challenges us all – Sean Bell, Source News

Further reflections on the battle of Kenmure Street – Smina Akhat, Glasgow University and Alistair Davidson, bella caledonia

Glasgow says “No Pasaran” to the Hostile Environment – Robina Qreshi , Director of Positive Housing

Edinburgh May Day Kill the Bill demo, Maria Elena Carpintero Torres-Quevedo, bella caledonia

No evictions network campaigning for asylum seeker’ housing rights – Maria Elena Carpintero Torres-Quevedo, bella caledonia

2020 was one of the deadliest years for migrants, and not just because of Covid – James Denis Hoff, Left Voice (USA)

End the hostile environment – Fred Laplat and Mike Picken (SR)

From Blairgowrie to the Black Sea: strawberries and Nutella – Sarah Glynn, bella caledonia

Eviction of migrants in Dublin during Covid-19 pandemic – Socialist Democracy (Ireland)

Glasgow and Reading killings raise major questions about treatment of asylum seekers – Mike Picken (RS) and Jim Cook (Weekly Worker)

Italian dockworkers show solidarity with migrants – Karel Ludendorff, imho journal

Indictment of violations with impunity of the human rights of migrants and refugee peoples – Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal

What’s wrong with the Immigration Bill – Global Justice Now

Corbyn, Labour and the Tories’ Immigration Bill: a dialogue – Allan Armstrong, Phil Vellender (The Chartist) Jeffrey Lever (SR), New Statesman, Sue Sparks (RSA)

Grassroots UNITE leadership candidate attacks McCluskey’s and Coyne’s capitulation to anti-migrant politics – Ian Allinson (rs21)

Workers, serfs and slaves: managed migration and employment rights – No One Is Illegal

The Refugee Crisis, An Outcome of Capitalist Barbarism – Socialist Democracy (Ireland)

Highland migrant workers – Bill Scott

Migrant workers at the heart of our fightback – the commune, no. 6

Marching in the footsteps of immigrant workers – Sharat G.Lin

It’s a Free World, Corinna Lotz reviews of Ken Loach’s film

Let Them In – Mary McGregor

 

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