Tag: borders

Amid the coronavirus chaos, the UK government is quietly shutting the door on child refugees.

Hanna Gál interviews Meriam Mabrouk on working as a personal assistant in social care.

Could we be seeing the end of immigration detention? As other countries close their detention centres, Lois JC asks if we can make the UK do the same - and for good.

Refugees are currently reaching the Greece’s border with Turkey in large numbers after the Turkish state withdrew all border enforcement. The Greek state has responded with violence.

Ian Allinson reports from a rally in Manchester against deportations, the hostile environment and the mistreatment of the Windrush generation and their descendants.

Ida Picard analyses the function that borders play in extinction capitalism and argues that we must be uncompromising in calling for all borders to go.

On 26 October, rs21 hosted a day of discussions in London about capitalism and the climate emergency. The first session of the day discussed how the climate crisis is related to imperialism and state control.

In recent years, especially since the referendum, electoral politics, as well as discussions in the media, have been predicated on increasingly open hostility to migrants and refugees. Mitch Mitchell recounts four of the most popular anti-migration myths and why they are wrong.

As long as British Airways accepts contracts from the British government to fly people to their deaths, they have blood on their hands.

On 12 July, hundreds of Gilets Noires (black vests) occupied the Panthéon building in Paris to demand an end to the persecution, deportations and exploitation of migrants.