20 June 2018

Refugee suicide scandal

Recent reports show there is an increase in the number of suicides among refugees in the UK. The latest additions to that number are three teenage refugees from Eritrea who have taken their own lives in London.

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20 June 2018

Tamil Solidarity Day: intense, lively, thought-provoking

On 16 June in central London Socialist Party members took part in Solidarity Day 2018 - an annual event organised by Tamil Solidarity.

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4 June 2018

Eyewitness report from Gaza: "Razan was killed in front of my eyes"

Razan, a medical volunteer, was shot dead on a protest in Gaza

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23 May 2018

Leicester socialists fight poverty-paying sweatshops

The full effects of Tory policies, both economic and social, are being felt in Leicester, as sweatshop conditions and shocking illegal levels of pay persist in 2018.

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23 May 2018

Support refugees rights

A recent Refugee Action report (bit.ly/2GFCd1y188/) reveals how those who flee persecution or war are systematically mistreated by the Home Office, notorious for implementing Theresa May's "hostile environment" for migrants

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16 May 2018

Exclusive interview with Gazan activist: "The more they kill us, the more the anger increases"

Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI Israel/Palestine), which is in full solidarity with the current Gaza protests, spoke to 24-year-old Gaza activist Ahmed A-Na'ouq from Deir al-Balah city in the Gaza Strip, about the bloody repression, the devastating conditions and the protest movement.

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9 May 2018

Socialists fight for Palestinian liberation and workers' unity

70 years on from the foundation of Israel: The 1948 foundation of the Israeli state is being marked this month in Israel.

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25 April 2018

Windrush scandal: Tories and Blairites must go

Windrush workers who became pillars of public services now find themselves denied access to the NHS, sacked from jobs they've held for a lifetime, detained for undefined periods, and some even deported

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4 April 2018

Bristol and Bath students join detained asylum seekers' protest

Detainees waved back after protesters chanted, drummed and kicked on the metal fences - the mood became more solemn as they spoke and led chanting from within via loudspeaker

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28 March 2018

Bristol Socialist Students join Yarlswood demo

Bristol University Socialist Students recently organised a Sudanese lunch, all cooked by Kaba, someone who has been through the asylum process, writes Rob Alexander, Bristol Socialist Students.

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21 March 2018

Refugee Rights to be launched in Manchester

Please get in touch if you are in Manchester and would like to get involved!

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21 March 2018

Refugees march against racism and to demand rights

The Refugee Rights campaign made a big splash, and what singled them out was that they were refugees fighting for not only their rights but those of the wider working class

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21 February 2018

Cardiff Refugee Rights gig success

Cardiff hosted a successful gig and art auction, organised by Young Socialists in conjunction with the Refugee Rights Campaign

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14 February 2018

Enjoyable and successful Cardiff Refugee Rights gig

"I was deeply moved by the huge support that we received"

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14 February 2018

France: rallies in support of oppressed Kurdish people

Turkey's President Erdogan is intent on smashing the aspirations of the Kurdish people for a homeland

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7 February 2018

90 feared dead after migrant boat capsizes

I, being a refugee from Sri Lanka, a victim of civil war, find it disheartening when I read the news about 90 migrants thought dead after a boat capsized off the coast of Libya.

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31 January 2018

Vienna: 50,000 march against racism and austerity

They came in their tens of thousands to protest against the new far-right coalition government formed by the conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ).

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10 January 2018

Sweden: School strike against deportations

Before the seasonal holidays began in Sweden, an historic strike against the deportation of refugees was organised. On 12 December, at 12noon, school students across the country - from Boden in the north to Ystad in the south - took part.

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13 December 2017

Tamil Solidarity and Refugee Rights activists meeting

Tamil Solidarity's annual general meeting took place in London on 9 December followed by a public meeting titled 'South Asia and Britain - lessons to learn from struggles'

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6 December 2017

Royal wedding exposes them-and-us visa system

If you're very wealthy you can buy your way in - but for ordinary people, visa applications don't have many fairy-tale endings

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