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Report: Protesters Block Coach Moving Asylum Seekers, As Resistance to Rwanda Plan Mounts

Charlotte England

Dozens of people blocked a coach in south London to stop it from taking asylum seekers to the Bibby Stockholm against their will, amid a week of direct action against deportations.

Report: Home Office Faces Legal Challenges Over New Detention Centre

Tommy Greene

Derwentside Removal Centre’s alleged failure to provide in-person legal advice has led both a charity and a current detainee to take legal action against it. Tommy Greene reports.

Priti Patel stands beside a number of French border guards in Calais, all wearing face masks.

Report: Under ‘Extreme’ New Immigration Rules, Britain Can Deport Asylum Seekers to Any Country That Will Take Them

Rivkah Brown

Rule changes snuck in by the Home Office in December theoretically allow the department to send asylum applicants anywhere in the world. In practice, more people will be forced into inhumane and indefinite immigration detention. Rivkah Brown reports.

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

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.

Long Read: Detained Migrants Are Workers. They Belong in the Trade Union Movement

Isaac Ricca-Richardson and Franck Magennis

With detained migrants encouraged to work for slave wages, rather than treating them as victims devoid of agency, trade unions must instead bring them into the movement, write Isaac Ricca-Richardson and Franck Magennis.

Radical Compassion? Why the West Midlands Needs to Know About Liam Byrne’s Record on Immigration

Charles Garry

Liam Byrne's campaign to become Labour's mayoral candidate in the West Midlands pledges 'radical compassion', but his record on immigration and asylum suggests otherwise, writes Charles Garry.

15 Things the Stansted 15 Did Right

Sam Walton

On 6 February, the Stansted 15 - a group of activists who stopped a deportation flight - were sentenced after being found guilty of terror-related offences. In the face of a judge who wanted to find them guilty from the moment they stepped into court, avoiding imprisonment was a real achievement. Here are 15 things the Stansted 15 did right.

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

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?

These Five Victories in the Fight for Migrants’ Rights Show We Can Win

Charlotte England

The government backtracked on its demand that schools collect data on pupils’ nationality and country of birth this month, presenting a sudden and startling victory to campaigners opposing the hostile environment. Here are five other key wins in the fight for migrants’ rights in Britain.

Outsourcing Incarceration: Privitisation in Britain’s Immigration Detention Estate

Rudy Schulkind

The private companies that run Britain's detention centres have repeatedly failed to protect the rights, dignity and safety of the people they imprison. But the Home Office has created a system in which it is incredibly difficult to hold them to account.

Long Read: The Stansted 15 Follow a Long Tradition of Direct Action in the UK – But They Also Go Beyond It

Ewa Jasiewicz

On Monday 15 people will face trial on terror-related charges for blockading a deportation charter flight last year. Ewa Jasiewicz reflects on the history of radical direct action-orientated solidarity in the UK and how this action was the first of its kind.

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

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.

Surround Yarl’s Wood: We Must Keep On Demanding an End to Immigration Detention

Charlotte England

We went to the 12th surround Yarl's Wood demonstration outside the immigration removal centre in Bedfordshire. But despite a recent abuse scandal, an increase in detention deaths, and a charter flight the day before, the turnout was small and the mood different to past protests.

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Report: Protesters Block Coach Moving Asylum Seekers, As Resistance to Rwanda Plan Mounts

Charlotte England

Report: Home Office Faces Legal Challenges Over New Detention Centre

Tommy Greene

Report: Under ‘Extreme’ New Immigration Rules, Britain Can Deport Asylum Seekers to Any Country That Will Take Them

Rivkah Brown

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

Laith Saad

Long Read: Detained Migrants Are Workers. They Belong in the Trade Union Movement

Isaac Ricca-Richardson and Franck Magennis

Radical Compassion? Why the West Midlands Needs to Know About Liam Byrne’s Record on Immigration

Charles Garry

15 Things the Stansted 15 Did Right

Sam Walton

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

Irene Renny and Tom Kemp

These Five Victories in the Fight for Migrants’ Rights Show We Can Win

Charlotte England

Outsourcing Incarceration: Privitisation in Britain’s Immigration Detention Estate

Rudy Schulkind

Long Read: The Stansted 15 Follow a Long Tradition of Direct Action in the UK – But They Also Go Beyond It

Ewa Jasiewicz

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

Charlotte England

Surround Yarl’s Wood: We Must Keep On Demanding an End to Immigration Detention

Charlotte England

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Tag: Immigration detention

Report: Protesters Block Coach Moving Asylum Seekers, As Resistance to Rwanda Plan Mounts

Charlotte England

Report: Home Office Faces Legal Challenges Over New Detention Centre

Tommy Greene

Report: Under ‘Extreme’ New Immigration Rules, Britain Can Deport Asylum Seekers to Any Country That Will Take Them

Rivkah Brown

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

Laith Saad

Long Read: Detained Migrants Are Workers. They Belong in the Trade Union Movement

Isaac Ricca-Richardson and Franck Magennis

Radical Compassion? Why the West Midlands Needs to Know About Liam Byrne’s Record on Immigration

Charles Garry

15 Things the Stansted 15 Did Right

Sam Walton

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

Irene Renny and Tom Kemp

These Five Victories in the Fight for Migrants’ Rights Show We Can Win

Charlotte England

Outsourcing Incarceration: Privitisation in Britain’s Immigration Detention Estate

Rudy Schulkind

Long Read: The Stansted 15 Follow a Long Tradition of Direct Action in the UK – But They Also Go Beyond It

Ewa Jasiewicz

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

Charlotte England

Surround Yarl’s Wood: We Must Keep On Demanding an End to Immigration Detention

Charlotte England

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