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Opinion: The Left Must Stop Buying the Right’s Lie That They’ve Won the Working Class

Aurelien Mondon

The idea that Trump and Brexit were working-class revolts is a dangerous myth, one the president's recent electoral defeat has done little to dispel, writes Aurelien Mondon.

Report: Deportation Flights to the EU Have Increased Threefold, As the UK Rushes to Return Asylum Seekers Before Brexit

Rivkah Brown

Exclusive: The UK has chartered as many deportation flights to the EU so far in 2020 as in the past three years combined, in a bid to accelerate the removal of asylum seekers before Brexit. Rivkah Brown reports.

Report: The UK is Rushing to Deport Asylum Seekers Before Brexit, New Data Shows

Rivkah Brown

Exclusive: The UK is rushing to return asylum seekers to the EU before Brexit makes it harder to do so. Data obtained by Novara Media shows the UK made up to 154% more transfer requests to Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Ireland and Denmark this year, an uptick lawyers say has resulted in a catalogue of harmful and unlawful failings. Rivkah Brown reports.

Long Read: The West is Dying – of Narcissism

Arun Kundnani

Conservatives often frame demographic change as western cultures 'committing suicide'. The left must challenge this, writes Arun Kundnani, because as individuals and as peoples, we can only grow through our encounters with others; in pursuing a purification of the west, conservatives foster the very cultural death they claim to fear.

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Opinion: Of Course the Right Fears Demographic Change – It’s Going to Deliver a Progressive Majority

Ash Sarkar

The ruling coalition of white property owners is ageing out of the electorate. A progressive majority, made up of young tenants and communities of colour, is set to replace it.

Opinion: Tory Lawyer-Bashing Is a Long-Held Tradition – With Dangerous Consequences

With an alleged far-right extremist recently charged with attempting to launch a terror attack at a solicitor’s firm in London, and Priti Patel’s condemnation of ‘activist lawyers’ appearing to have triggered it, solicitor Fahad Ansari argues that such troubling denigrations are part of a long and reckless Tory campaign against legal professionals in the UK.

Report: How We Won: The Activists and Lawyers Who Stopped Asylum Seekers Being Evicted in Glasgow

Lauren Gilmour

A coalition of activists and lawyers took on the Tories' anti-immigrant agenda in Glasgow, using direct action and legal challenges to stop a government-contracted company making hundreds of vulnerable people street homeless. Lauren Gilmour reports.

Report: Italy’s Migrants Are Being Attacked From Left and Right. They Aren’t Going to Take It Lying Down

Alice Figes

As regional elections approach later this month, and with a second wave of coronavirus expected, the Italian far right and centre are engaged in a race to the bottom on immigration. Alice Figes looks at the latest chapter in Italy's long history of xenophobia.

Ash Wednesday: Ash Sarkar Debunks Anti-Migrant Myths

While establishment media jumps at the chance to go on refugee safari in the Channel, Ash Sarkar debunks the myths behind anti-migrant sentiment.

Novara Live: Right Wing Migrant Freakout

Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani debunk the latest right-wing freakout about migration. Plus, Government corruption on PPE, submissions close for the Labour Leaks inquiry and why we all need Joe Biden to stop talking.

Report: Coronavirus Has Made Things Even Worse for Migrant Workers on Spain’s Fruit Farms

Nic Murray

Most strawberries sold in British supermarkets are grown in southern Spain, on fruit farms run by multinational companies that exploit migrant labour. Coronavirus has left fewer workers under pressure to meet high export targets, without PPE or cleaning products. Nic Murray reports.

Opinion: Labour is an Obstacle to the Anti-Racist Movement

David Wearing

Throughout its history, the Labour party has been structurally enmeshed in British racism. David Wearing argues that the burgeoning anti-racist movement faces obstacles on many fronts - and that Labour, sadly but predictably, will be one of them.

A Migrant With No Recourse to Public Funds on Being Made Homeless During a Pandemic

Mohammed, as told to Benjamin Morgan

Boris Johnson revealed on Wednesday that he had no idea that tens of thousands of people living in the UK are denied access to public funds, including basic welfare benefits. We spoke to a man made homeless by the no recourse to public funds policy.

Opinion: Filth: Coronavirus Has Shown That Cleaners Are Essential, but Labelling Them ‘Low-Skilled’ Legitimises Exploitation

Eleanor Penny

A crisis always reveals. While pandemic society has effortlessly withstood the temporary absence of hedge fund managers, cleaners have been billeted to the frontlines, their work suddenly and mysteriously ‘essential’. In part four of her series, Filth, Eleanor Penny explores how labelling work 'low-skilled' rubber-stamps a vicious cycle of low pay, precarious contracts and hyper-exploitation.

Despite being made to feel the full force of the UK's hostile environment, many undocumented people are still eager to devote their time and skills to helping the country fight coronavirus. The government, however, is not allowing them to help, writes Jessie Williams.

Opinion: Undocumented Migrants Must Be Given Access to Healthcare and Welfare

Benjamin Morgan

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, healthcare and welfare provision must be made available to everyone, regardless of their immigration status, argues Benjamin Morgan.

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Opinion: The Left Must Stop Buying the Right’s Lie That They’ve Won the Working Class

Aurelien Mondon

Report: Deportation Flights to the EU Have Increased Threefold, As the UK Rushes to Return Asylum Seekers Before Brexit

Rivkah Brown

Report: The UK is Rushing to Deport Asylum Seekers Before Brexit, New Data Shows

Rivkah Brown

Long Read: The West is Dying – of Narcissism

Arun Kundnani

Opinion: Of Course the Right Fears Demographic Change – It’s Going to Deliver a Progressive Majority

Ash Sarkar

Opinion: Tory Lawyer-Bashing Is a Long-Held Tradition – With Dangerous Consequences

Fahad Ansari

Report: How We Won: The Activists and Lawyers Who Stopped Asylum Seekers Being Evicted in Glasgow

Lauren Gilmour

Report: Italy’s Migrants Are Being Attacked From Left and Right. They Aren’t Going to Take It Lying Down

Alice Figes

Ash Wednesday: Ash Sarkar Debunks Anti-Migrant Myths

Novara Live: Right Wing Migrant Freakout

Report: Coronavirus Has Made Things Even Worse for Migrant Workers on Spain’s Fruit Farms

Nic Murray

Opinion: Labour is an Obstacle to the Anti-Racist Movement

David Wearing

A Migrant With No Recourse to Public Funds on Being Made Homeless During a Pandemic

Mohammed, as told to Benjamin Morgan

Opinion: Filth: Coronavirus Has Shown That Cleaners Are Essential, but Labelling Them ‘Low-Skilled’ Legitimises Exploitation

Eleanor Penny

Novara Live: Johnson in Retreat

‘It’s more difficult than ever’: A Volunteer on the Situation in Calais Under Coronavirus

Shona Walne

Migrants Want to Volunteer for the NHS, but the Government Isn’t Letting Them

Jessie Williams

Opinion: Undocumented Migrants Must Be Given Access to Healthcare and Welfare

Benjamin Morgan

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Tag: immigration

Opinion: The Left Must Stop Buying the Right’s Lie That They’ve Won the Working Class

Aurelien Mondon

Report: Deportation Flights to the EU Have Increased Threefold, As the UK Rushes to Return Asylum Seekers Before Brexit

Rivkah Brown

Report: The UK is Rushing to Deport Asylum Seekers Before Brexit, New Data Shows

Rivkah Brown

Long Read: The West is Dying – of Narcissism

Arun Kundnani

Opinion: Of Course the Right Fears Demographic Change – It’s Going to Deliver a Progressive Majority

Ash Sarkar

Opinion: Tory Lawyer-Bashing Is a Long-Held Tradition – With Dangerous Consequences

Fahad Ansari

Report: How We Won: The Activists and Lawyers Who Stopped Asylum Seekers Being Evicted in Glasgow

Lauren Gilmour

Report: Italy’s Migrants Are Being Attacked From Left and Right. They Aren’t Going to Take It Lying Down

Alice Figes

Ash Wednesday: Ash Sarkar Debunks Anti-Migrant Myths

Novara Live: Right Wing Migrant Freakout

Report: Coronavirus Has Made Things Even Worse for Migrant Workers on Spain’s Fruit Farms

Nic Murray

Opinion: Labour is an Obstacle to the Anti-Racist Movement

David Wearing

A Migrant With No Recourse to Public Funds on Being Made Homeless During a Pandemic

Mohammed, as told to Benjamin Morgan

Opinion: Filth: Coronavirus Has Shown That Cleaners Are Essential, but Labelling Them ‘Low-Skilled’ Legitimises Exploitation

Eleanor Penny

Novara Live: Johnson in Retreat

‘It’s more difficult than ever’: A Volunteer on the Situation in Calais Under Coronavirus

Shona Walne

Migrants Want to Volunteer for the NHS, but the Government Isn’t Letting Them

Jessie Williams

Opinion: Undocumented Migrants Must Be Given Access to Healthcare and Welfare

Benjamin Morgan

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