Immigration

• International round-up
  • 07 July 2015
  • Yemen bombing | Crackdown in Egypt | Victory for German strike | Migrant deaths in Calais

• Migrant workers at Sotheby's suspended for standing up for their rights
  • 02 July 2015
  • Cleaners and porters who work at Sotheby’s were suspended today, Thursday, for taking part in a protest yesterday for sick pay and against victimisation.

• Tories send fence to Calais to shut more migrants out
  • 30 June 2015
  • Tory prime minister David Cameron pledged last week to make Britain a “less easy place for illegal migrants to come to and work in”.

• Refugees in Calais demand end of ‘jungle’ hell
  • 23 June 2015
  • Refugees in the French port of Calais refused to be swept out of sight last Saturday, with a protest more than 1,000 strong. 

• Tories' plan could see NHS staff deported
  • 23 June 2015
  • Migrant health workers from outside the European Union (EU) could be forced to leave Britain under new immigration rules, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has warned. 

• Europe's hidden shame - a system to criminalise refugees
  • 16 June 2015
  • The European Union’s leaders go to shocking lengths to get refugees out of sight, out of mind and out of Europe, migrants and activists told Dave Sewell and Ken Olende

• GMB conference delegates want better than capitulation to austerity from Labour
  • 09 June 2015
  • The Tories’ renewed assault on workers and Labour’s general election defeat dominated the GMB union’s annual conference in Dublin this week.

• Hundreds protest to say, 'Shut down Yarl's Wood'
  • 09 June 2015
  • Sections of the outer fence of Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre were torn down last Saturday, as some 700 people protested outside to demand its closure.

• Furious Filipino nurses take on the Daily Mail's racist smear
  • 02 June 2015
  • Up to 600 Filipino health workers and supporters rallied outside the Daily Mail’s west London offices last Saturday, to defiant chants of “End racism now”.

• Solidarity demonstration for detainees at Dungavel
  • 02 June 2015
  • Up to 400 people joined a demonstration outside Dungavel detention centre in Scotland last Saturday. The protest was called by the Scottish TUC (STUC).