Last week’s local and European elections, alongside opinion polls, suggest Labour should win next year’s General Election, but only if the decline in its support since late 2012 is halted at this point. Labour’s share of the European election vote was 25 per cent and its national equivalent vote (NEV) share of the local election […]
Posts under ‘Migration/Immigration’
Boycotting Qatar World Cup 2022
May 19th, 2014 by John Millington.Sport and the left have not always been the most comfortable of bedfellows. Despite many famous left leaning sports stars over the years, sport remains associated with individual achievement and cut throat competition. Yet the major international trade union campaign set to dominate the rest of the 2020’s involves arguably the biggest sporting event; the Qatar […]
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The resistable rise of UKIP
May 13th, 2014 by Andy Newman.Regular readers may recall that I raised the alarm when anti-Islam activist, Anne Marie Waters, was seeking the selection to be Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Brighton Pavilion. Sadly this led to Nick Cohen writing a rather ill judged article for the Spectator, where he stood up for Anne Marie: [Andy Newman] has campaigned against Anne Marie […]
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What’s behind the anti-immigrant vote in Switzerland?
Feb 13th, 2014 by Tom Gill.Translated by Tom Gill from the original in l’Humanité Since the Swiss / EU agreement on the free movement of people, a sense of unease has been growing in Switzerland, fuelled by the crisis and exacerbated by the demagoguery of the extreme nationalist right. The success of the anti-immigration initiative of the far-right Swiss People’s […]
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Migrants need solidarity, not hostility
Feb 11th, 2014 by Mike Phipps.It’s always satisfying when a government minister is forced to resign on grounds of hypocrisy. This applies particularly to Immigration Minister Mark Harper, the man who brought us last summer’s “Go home or face arrest” vans in multicultural areas of London. He was forced to quit after admitting employing a cleaner without checking her documents […]
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Home Office ministers refuse to vote on immigration proposal they know is illegal
Jan 31st, 2014 by Michael Meacher.The extremes to which the Tory Right are prepared to go to vent their hatred both of the EU and immigrants are almost unbelievable, only matched by the supine readiness of Tory ministers to placate them. There were two key votes in the House today on the Immigration Bill, both of which took the wranglings […]
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Break with this Tory rhetoric on immigration
Jan 20th, 2014 by Mike Phipps.Recent weeks have seen a poisoning of the political discourse about immigration. Much of the ludicrous fear mongering about an imminent invasion of Romanians and Bulgarians was whipped up by Tory tabloid newspapers. Their agenda is transparent: maximum publicity and support for UKIP ahead of the European Parliamentary elections this spring, primarily as a means […]
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Immigration and class politics
Jan 7th, 2014 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Years of scaremongering by the press, successive governments and opportunist politicians have ensured immigration has become nothing more than a fetid, toxic swamp. Its rotten stink permeates politics as it competes to scapegoat and appear “tough” on people who come to live and work here. Basically, it’s who can fall furthest, fastest into a bottomless […]
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David Blunkett fuels anti-Roma racism
Nov 13th, 2013 by Jon Lansman.The Romani people have uniquely suffered from uninterrupted systematic racism across Europe throughout the last century in spite of the minority rights established in international law by the Treaty of Versailles. In the first decades it ranged from oppressive segregation to genocide. In the Soviet bloc, material standards of living improved somewhat but at the cost […]
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Why is Labour silent on this viciously anti-migrant bill?
Oct 24th, 2013 by Mike Phipps.On the day the Home Secretary announced she was abandoning the Government’s racist “Go home” vans – trialed in Brent this summer to a huge public outcry – the Labour frontbench decided to sit on their hands in the vote on the second reading of the new Immigration Bill. Just six Labour MPs voted against […]
