Long Read: Mining for Red Gold
Campagne in Lotta
Workers in Italy's tomato industry are organising against exploitation that local government has continually failed to tackle.
Tag: immigration
4 Reasons to Resist the New Immigration Duty in the School Census
Against Borders for Children
Schools are now being used to investigate 'education tourism' as part of the government's campaign to create a hostile environment for migrants. Against Borders for Children believes we can work together to resist the plans.
Novara Docs: Back on the Line: Remembering Grunwick 40 Years On
40 years later, workers, writers and politicians remember the historic 2 year strike led primarily by South-Asian film processing workers at the Grunwick Lab in Dollis Hill, North-west London. How did Grunwick pave the way for further suppression of trade unions and independent worker organisation?
Treat, Don’t Police! Fighting the Immigration Act in the NHS
Docs Not Cops
The Byron raids highlighted the extent to which companies are complicit in immigration enforcement, but the government's pursuit of a 'hostile environment' for undocumented migrants is asking NHS workers to police patients.
The Byron Raids Show the Complicity of an Industry Built on Migrant Labour
Sarah Taylor
The hospitality sector is built on both migrant labour and the precise management of staff and resources. A closer look at the sector reveals the level of planning that must have gone into the Byron immigration raids.
Interview: Brexit, Labour, Immigration & Trident – Paul Mason in conversation
Aaron Bastani talks to journalist and filmmaker Paul Mason on immigration caps, keeping trident and why he ditched mainstream TV journalism to rally behind Labour under Jeremy Corbyn.
OMFG Sarkar: The Unbearable Whiteness of Brexit
Two weeks on from the referendum Ash Sarkar visits Barking, which voted 62% leave, and looks at the way class and race shape inequality and political disenfranchisement.
EU Citizen? Check Your Immigration Status
Anne Achilles and Marijam Didzgalvyte
The UK's vote to leave the EU has left many EU migrants unsure of their rights and status both before and after Britain makes its exit. Here's a useful guide.
The Two Pillars of Corbynism: The Only Way for Labour to Respond to Brexit
Tom Cutterham
Jeremy Corbyn's politics are comprised of two central pillars - the combination of which offers the only decent parliamentary response to Brexit.
Warnings About the Consequences of Brexit Are Falling on Deaf Ears – Here’s Why
Luke Ilott
The Remain camp's reliance on people heeding the advice of this or that economic expert misunderstands the defiance many Leavers feel they're exercising in voting to 'take back control'.
Referendum Fatigue: 5 Thoughts on the Inadequacies of Both Leave and Remain
Alex Fusco
The EU referendum seems to have dragged on for an age, yet many people feel no more enlightened now than when campaigning started.
5 Things That Won’t Happen If Britain Leaves the EU
Leah Cowan
The EU referendum has been characterised by misinformation and opportunism. What would Brexit really mean for the 'refugee crisis', the UK economy and the future of the EU?
OMFG Sarkar: Against ‘Integration’
Ash Sarkar looks at recent comments by Professor Ted Cantle on segregation in the UK and explains why 'Integration' is a flawed and oppressive approach to understanding race.
The Choices Are Awful, But We Have To Vote To Stay In The EU
Eleanor Penny explains why Britain needs to remain in the EU despite it's structural racism and lack of democracy.
Novara FM: Class, Race, Migration
On this week’s show Aaron Bastani and Ash Sarkar are joined by Jeremy Gilbert as they discussing class, whiteness and Britain's attitudes to migration.
Freedom of Movement and Benefit Tourism: Paying Attention to the Background
Raia Apostolova
Behind the folk devil figure of the ‘benefit tourist’ - which has become so prominent in the Brexit debate - is the politics of freedom of movement and the realities of those who are forced to be mobile to reproduce their lives.
IMOBastani: We Need to Build a Wall… and we’ll make them pay for it
In times of crisis it's easy to propose simplistic solutions to complicated problems - but Aaron Bastani has an idea which he thinks could actually put an end to all the worlds woes - and it wouldn't even cost us any money!
“I would call it state violence” – Luqman Onikosi on receiving a deportation death sentence
Luqman Onikosi was diagnosed with chronic liver illness while studying in the UK. Now the Home Office wants to deport him, despite medical facilities in Nigeria being inadequate to save his life. Aaron Bastani speaks to Luqman about facing deportation and the British state's treatment of non-EU citizens.