Migrant workers: Between Polish and English nationalism - Thoughts after the Markfield Park attack, June 2014
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Jul 10 2014 10:29
The struggle against nationalism is - now more than ever - linked to the struggle against exploitation, argues this analysis looking at Poland and Polish migration to the UK.
The dangers of reactionary ecology
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Jun 30 2014 09:21
Influential metaphors for understanding the environment serve as a bridge between traditional conservatism and outright ecofascism.
Palestinian migrant workers in Israel: from repression to rebellion - Toby Shelley
Article on the Apartheid-like conditions which Palestinian migrant workers labour under, the obstacles which the Israeli occupation puts on their ability to organise and the ways in which they have attempted to overcome it. Also looks at how the Zionist trade union, the Histadrut, is one of the main exploiters of Palestinian labour.
Taking refuge in struggle: protests and hunger strikes in four asylum seeker detention centres across the UK
Submitted by Caiman del Barrio on May 9 2014 11:50
A wave of protests and repression has spread across the UK's expansive asylum seeker detention complex, with four centres reporting unrest thus far. Detainee support groups report hunger strikes, sitdown protests and a flurry of organising in Harmondsworth, Colnbrook, Brook House and Campsfield, against both their lack of legal recourse and the squalid conditions in the detention centres.
Hunger strikes in corporate immigrant prisons in the United States
Submitted by libera-te-tuternet on Mar 10 2014 20:18
Detainees at the privately-owned Northwest Detention Center in the United States are on a hunger strike against bad treatment and deportations.
Ancona’s centre-left city council evicts housing occupation
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Feb 28 2014 16:59
On 5 February 2014 Ancona’s centre-left city council evicted refugees and homeless people from the Casa de Nialtri housing occupation. The Casa was a former infant school (disused for three years) which had been occupied on 22 December by people from a large network of grassroots groups and associations, together with a number of Italian and migrant homeless people.
Beyond the select commission: immigrant wars update
Article prepared for Zerowork issue 3 on immigration.
Dead end: about the coup in Egypt
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Feb 21 2014 14:54
Article by the Wildcat collective on the background and current developments of class struggle in Egypt after the military coup in summer 2013 with additional focus on the situation of migrant workers in the Gulf states.
The Lampedusa Charter
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Feb 5 2014 23:00
Over the past weekend (31 January – 2 February), a large number of North African and European associations, movements and networks concerned with migrants’ issues met on the Italian island of Lampedusa. The aim was to put together a charter stating the rights of migrants and, in the long-term, to change European policies about migration.
Granarolo protesters march through Bologna [photos]
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Feb 5 2014 01:00
Bologna saw 1,000 people marching on February 1st, to bring the claims of Granarolo workers to the attention of local and national authorities.
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