migration

We are not all like that: the monster bares its fangs

red jack — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:48:52 +0000

The sms’s came fast and furious. As furious as the fiery images we were subjected to by our television and our daily newspapers. The front pages are a festival of beastly pictures of the victims of the negrophobic blood letting which has gripped South Africa in the past weeks.

On the pogroms in South Africa

red jack — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:47:01 +0000

The industrial and mining towns on the Eastern outskirts of Johannesburg are unlovely places. They’re set on flat windswept plains amidst the dumps of sterile sand left over from old mines. In winter the wind bites, the sky is a very pale blue and it seems to be all coal braziers, starved dogs, faded strip malls, gun shops and rusting factories and mine headgear.

Abahlali baseMjondolo statement on the xenophobic attacks in Johannesburg, 2008

red jack — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:16:51 +0000

Wednesday, 21 May 2008
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement

Unyawo Alunampumulo

Abahlali baseMjondolo Statement on the Xenophobic Attacks in Johannesburg

There is only one human race.

Our struggle and every real struggle is to put the human being at the centre of society, starting with the worst off.

African health worker gap catastrophic

Saii — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:05:50 +0000

It has been revealed that the global shortfall in healthcare professionals has reached four million people – with one million needed in Africa alone. The figures were voiced at the Global Forum on Human Resources for Health, which opened in the Ugandan capital of Kampala on March 3rd.

France: round-up of strikes and more government attacks on conditions

jef costello — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:18:45 +0000

Just outside of Paris at the Areva TD factory in Montrouge, 89 striking workers have been occupying and blockading the factory for four days.The movement began after management announced plans to close the factory, which produces electrical transformers. Workers are demanding large compensation payments, management is currently refusing to negotiate.

Migrant workers win Northampton strike

magnifico — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:36:59 +0000

The mainly Polish workers employed by cleaning company Glenn Management to clean offices on the Moulton Park industrial estate, Northampton, had not been paid properly for around four months. However after only one day's strike action they were paid the money that they were owed.

France: immigrants demonstrate against repression

jef costello — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:02:26 +0000

With the openly anti-immigration policies of the government immigrants have found themselves targetted by police. This is part of a worrying racist trend in contemporary French politics.

France: organisation amongst the homeless

jef costello — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:14:02 +0000

A familiar sight to many Parisians are the rows of people living in tents along the banks of the canal St Martin. They are homeless, mostly immigrants, mostly illegal. The tents are supplied by les enfants de Don Quichotte, an organisation that battles for the rights of homeless people.

1886: The Bay View Massacre

Steven. — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:09:31 +0000

The deadly stand-off between workers and the National Guard was the culmination of events that began on Saturday May 1, 1886.

A historical marker, pictured above, is located at Russel and Superior on Jones Island in Bay View. It commemorates the Bay View Massacre.

France: Migrant workers' occupation wins

Steven. — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:28:43 +0000

The one-month occupation of the restaurant and parking lot of the Buffalo Grill in Viry-Chatillon outside Paris has resulted in an important victory for 20 undocumented migrant workers fired at the fast food chain.

Paris: Migrant workers occupy Buffalo Grill

catch — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:46:47 +0000

The migrants, mostly of African origin, many with years of employment at the chain, face expulsion from the France of Nicolas Sarkozy to their country of origin.

Sweden: European Court sets precedent on foreign workers

jef costello — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:09:16 +0000

The case began in 2004 when a Lithuanian company, Laval, entered the building trade, winning a string of contracts in Sweden. The company, then best known for producing cake, based its strategy on the importation of cheap Latvian labour. Laval argued that as Sweden does not have a legal minimum wage this was entirely legal.

Sweden: Migrant workers "used as slaves"

Joseph K. — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:09:55 +0000

thelocal.se reported:

Critique of Autonomous Anti-Fascism - Wildcat (Germany)

Ret Marut — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:12:41 +0000

Set in the context of the then-recent reunification of the German state;

France: Metal workers defend undocumented colleagues

jef costello — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:09:22 +0000

The workers were originally fired towards the end of January, after a government inspection of the factory showed that 19 of the factory's 64 workers. The worker's contracts were cancelled after the inspector declared that they were using false papers.

Dublin: Wildcat strike in Musgrave warehouse

Weeler — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:49:29 +0000

The whole crew, around 80 people, both immigrant and natives - in solidarity stopped their work after successive acts of discrimination by the management.

France: Solidarity strike for arrested teacher

jef costello — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:40:36 +0000

Valérie Boukobza, the headmistress of a school in the north of Paris, was arrested on the 20th of March after intervening to try to prevent the arrrest of a chinese illegal immigrant who was collecting his two grand-daughters from her school.

Deported Iraqi refugees beaten on return

Joseph K. — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:45:37 +0000

The plane had not landed at the usual passenger terminal but instead taxied to a cargo area where media access was barred. Deportees were then herded into a waiting bus while some were beaten. They were subsequently taken to a hotel controlled by the Asayish, where those with family members already in Erbil were eventually released.

You are being lied to about asylum seekers

Steven. — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:22:43 +0000

Good leaflet with questions and answers about immigration and asylum seekers to the UK. It examines common perceptions, where they come from, whether they are accurate, who is spreading them and why. In text and PDF.

Introduction to debate on the new 'under classes' - Wildcat Germany

Steven. — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:35:11 +0000

Introduction to debate on the new 'under classes'1