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Report: ‘We’d Prefer to Die in the UK Than Go Back’: The Refugees on Hunger Strike Against Deportation

by Laith Saad

22 refugees at notorious immigration removal centre Brook House have gone on hunger strike in protest of their imminent deportations. Laith Saad reports.

Could a Corbyn Government Change UK Foreign Policy in Bahrain?

by Phil Miller

While we all know about Jeremy Corbyn’s support for the Palestinian struggle, his progressive foreign policy positions do not end there. Many oppressed peoples are looking at Corbyn’s record of supporting their struggles and daring to dream about what could happen if he became UK Prime Minister. Corbyn gave us a taste at last year’s […]

Hunger For Freedom: Campaigning Against Detention From Inside and Outside Yarl’s Wood

by Irene Renny and Tom Kemp

The success of the last Yarl's Wood hunger strike shows that listening to and collaborating with people in detention is an imperative part of building a successful anti-detention movement. What else can the protest teach us about organising against detention and showing solidarity with those inside?

With University Staff Forced to Act like Border Guards, Striking Lecturers Must Show Solidarity with Yarl’s Wood

by Dan Davison

UCU picketers must act in solidarity with hunger strikers in Yarl's Wood because their struggles are intrinsically linked. The inhumane border control system that makes international students fear failing to meet their visa requirements and puts the unwanted duty of immigration policing on to university staff, also creates detention centres.

Yarl’s Wood Hunger Strike: 120 Detainees Refuse Food in Protest Against Home Office

by Charlotte England

Demands include an end to indefinite detention and charter flights, an amnesty for people who have been in the country for more than ten years and for those who arrived as children, decent food, better access to healthcare, and that LGBT asylum-seekers are believed and treated with respect.

Unity and Hope: The Story of Palestine’s Hunger Strikers

by Anonymous

Could mobilisations around the hunger striking prisoners signify a new dawn of Palestinian politics?