Turin’s ExMoi occupation: the story so far
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Jan 21 2015 19:06
The story of the ExMoi occupation in Turin, a solution by radicals and refugees to the problems of homelessness amongst migrants in a city full of empty buildings, and the reaction of racist organisations to the project.
Racist attack on political asylum seekers’ centre in Rome and new project for Italian right
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Nov 25 2014 13:09
Groups of Italian residents, with fascist involvement, have attacked a centre housing dozens of political asylum seekers on the outskirts of Rome.
Gender, temporality, and the reproduction of labour power. Women migrant workers in South China
Submitted by Nao on Nov 9 2014 20:23
This excellent article by Hannah Schling on migration and gender in China was just published by the periodical Sozialgeschichte.
The unJewish state: the politics of Jewish identity in Israel - Akiva Orr
Akiva Orr looks at the failure of Israel's founders to provide a source for modern Jewish identity via a secular Jewish state, providing an original analysis of the arguments around the construction of Israeli and Jewish identities using source material from government debates translated for the first time.
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.
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