migration
1972: Broadmeadows Ford workers’ strike
In June 1972 workers at the Broadmeadows Ford factory exploded smashing up their workplace, facing off police and forcing union bosses into endorsing a strike they had attempted to abandon. This is a short history of the events.
The dispute was only one of the hundreds that tore across Australia that year, but was remarkable for the strikers ability to circumvent official control, gain widespread community support and push the needs of migrant workers onto the national agenda.
1934: Queensland canecutters' strike
The history of the victorious strike of mostly migrant cane-cutting workers in Australia. To secure the victory the workers had to overcome the bosses' resistance, the police and the racist trade union.
Like many other anti- fascists, Francesco Carmagnola was forced to emigrate from Italy because of fascist violence. From his arrival in 1922, he was increasingly active and prominent in organising anti fascist activities in North Queensland, Sydney and Melbourne.
Manx Justice
One of the most blatant cases of double standards regarding rich and poor the Isle of Man has seen in recent years, a South African millionaire has been given a slap on the wrist while the men he enslaved are exiled from the island.
Until his trial Pieter Van Rooyen, a South African tax exile, was a local Barclays bank manager on the Isle of Man, and also founder and head of the Life Church, a small evangelical cult.
Rooyen had helped smuggle five black South African labourers and their white boss over to the island to improve his property.
Greece: Migrants’ detention camps
An examination of the holding centres for illegal immigrants in and around Greece in so-called Fortress Europe.
The eastern borders of Greece, which are also the exterior borders of the European Union, are almost redrawn by detention camps. These camps are usually former warehouses (on the islands of Mitilini, Chios, Samos, Kos, Rhodos, Evia and in the town of Volos, central Greece).
Mayday - call for US general strike in defence of immigrants
The organisers of one of the largest national demonstrations the US has ever seen have called for a Mayday general strike.
The Los Angeles-based No hr4437 network said: “We are calling No Work, No School, No Sales, and No Buying, and also to have rallies around symbols of economic trade in your areas (stock exchanges, anti-immigrant corporations, etc.) to protest the anti-immigrant movements across the country.
Chicago, US: 10,000 march for immigrant rights
Last Saturday downtown Chicago was paralysed by tens of thousands of people marching for immigrants' rights. Joshua Hoyt examines this growing movement.
On Friday, March 10, 2006 Chicago’s downtown was paralysed by an immigrant march estimated at more than 100,000 people.
1995: The JJ Foods Strike
On October 31st 95, forty five workers at JJ Fast Food Distribution Ltd. in Tottenham were sacked for joining the T&G.
JJ FOODS STRIKE
1990-91 Immigrant Labour in Japan - selections from the AMPO journal
1990-91 Immigrant Labour in Japan - selections from the AMPO journal
"Coming back" to Japan - Montse Watkins
Life as a ghost, a poem by an Iranian migrant worker
Foreign workers in a racist world - Oda Makoto
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NHS failing asylum seekers
New research shows the the growing inequalities in healthcare in the UK that the NHS is unable to tackle.
The 16 January 2006 saw the launch of Project London, a new health care project in the east end of London. Project London is organised by Médecins du Monde (UK), a charity that organises health care across the world but is increasingly becoming involved in projects in western Europe.
Labour Party and union leaders play race card against migrant workers
Following the Irish Ferries dispute Labour Party leader Pat Rabbitte and union leader Jack O’Connor have decided to place the blame for driving down wages in Ireland on the migrant workers themselves and not on the bosses.
Both called for work permits to regulate migrant workers in Ireland .
Alan MacSimoin, of the Workers Solidarity Movement, disagreed:
