No One Is Illegal

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Какой бы ценной ни была последняя апология ведущей роли Британии в работорговле из уст Тони Блэра, она всё же звучала бы менее лицемерно, если бы его правительство не участвовало в развитии современной системы рабства и внедрении низкооплачиваемого труда через реформирование иммиграционного контроля.
Механизмы иммиграционного контроля изменяются. Иммиграционный контроль сегодня перемещается на […]

Whatever the merits of Tony Blair’s recent retrospective apology for Britain’s leading role in the slave trade it would be less hypocritical if his government was not developing a modern system of slavery and the reintroduction of sweated labour through the reshaping of immigration controls.
The mechanisms of immigration control are changing. They are locating themselves […]

WORKERS’ CONTROL NOT IMMIGRATION CONTROLS
A TRADE UNION PROGRAMME OF OPPOSITION TO IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS
PROPOSED BY NO ONE IS ILLEGAL
NO IMMIGRATION CONTROLS IN THE WORKPLACE!
The well known phrase “workers of the world unite” does not mean “only workers with the correct immigration status” unite. It means all workers both here and internationally. The function of immigration controls […]

CAMPAIGN AGAINST IMMIGRATION SLAVERY
APPEAL TO TRADE UNIONS, LOCAL AUTHORITIES, AND VOLUNTARY
SECTOR/COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS AGAINST IMMIGRATION SLAVE LABOUR
Section 10 of Asylum and Immigration Act 2004 makes “hard case support” conditional on performance of community work.
This leaflet explains why trade unions, voluntary sector groups and local authorities need to make a statement denouncing this clause and refusing to […]

The two main parties are demonstrating, yet again, that immigration controls are explicable only by racism.
The Conservatives say they intend to adopt quotas on immigrants, including asylum seekers. When Blair promised to halve the number of asylum applications, this amounted to much the same thing. The difference is that Labour hopes to deter and physically […]

Mansoor Hassan and Family Defence Campaign
Supported by the National Union of Journalists
FIGHT FOR ASYLUM FOR MANSOOR HASSAN AND HIS FAMILY!
SUPPORT FREEDOM OF JOURNALISM ! PROTECT THE JOURNALIST!
SOLIDARITY NOT PITY!
The background Mansoor Hassan , his wife, Aqila and four children are from Pakistan. Mansoor is an investigative journalist. As a result of his exposures of […]

Rethinking campaigns against deportation
Whose reality is it anyway?
“If a young person tells me they were raped, I say good! Tell me the details. The more sordid the better”
This quotation is not from a predatory male. It is from a feminist lawyer who has devoted two decades to fighting racism and preventing her clients […]

Article by Teresa Hayter.
Note: Much of the detailed material in this article is taken from the British case. This is because this is where the author’s knowledge mainly lies. It is not intended to mean that the British treatment of migrants and refugees is particularly worse than other countries’. All of the countries to which […]

Neither Closed Door Nor Open Door But Revolving Door
The 2004 Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants etc) Act.
“We came here to seek asylum, but we are being reduced to non-people…The Home Secretary has announced he is changing the rules about who can claim asylum…Does the Home Office prefer us to disappear into the underbelly of […]