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Communities of Solidarity- our offering to you
We’ve been working on these films for some time and they bring together the wisdom and learnings from grassroots organisers from the Solidarity Knows No Borders community. Continue reading
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UK: We’re no island of strangers
Earlier this week, the UK government launched its immigration white paper. The prime minister warned of Britain becoming “an island of strangers” and referred to the period of increased migration as a “squalid chapter”. We don’t recognise the country described here. Nor will anyone who has lived alongside, worked with, or supported people seeking safety… Continue reading
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Climate Refugees: The Next Great Humanitarian Challenge?
As climate change displaces millions through rising seas, droughts, and disasters, a global legal vacuum leaves climate refugees unprotected—demanding urgent international action and accountability from the world’s biggest polluters. Continue reading
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UK: Pandering to base populism
Home secretary Yvette Cooper’s shameless decision, in the run-up to the May local elections, to publish statistics on the nationalities of foreign offenders and their crimes, and her amendment to the Borders Security Bill to bar all foreign nationals on the sex offenders’ register from making asylum claims, haven’t gained Labour votes, but have added… Continue reading
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Refugees: ‘A wasted opportunity to do what is really needed’
SIR KEIR STARMER faced a backlash from refugee groups today after claiming a lack of co-ordination on illegal migration has given people-smugglers an “open invitation” to send migrants to Britain. Continue reading
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Statewatch Bi-weekly bulletin: issue 25/01
Welcome to the year’s first edition of the Statewatch Bulletin.You may have already noticed, but 2025 has brought several changes to Statewatch. You can find explanations of these changes along with our regular newsletter content below, now in a friendlier format.As always, if you appreciate what we do, you can support us with a donation. Every… Continue reading
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Labour on immigration: 5 things you need to know
The Tories’ 14-year run is over, but migrant solidarity campaigners are doubtful whether things look much brighter under Labour. How much has Keir Starmer’s government departed from the Conservatives’ migration policies, and what does the Home Office have in store for the next few years? Continue reading
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Statewatch News Issue 24/20 15 November 2024
Friday, 15 November 2024 — Statewatch Also available as a PDF. In this issue: EU migration policy priorities: a jargon-free translation Push for EU-wide “tracking and bugging of vehicles” Open letter condemns “illegal, immoral, and unworkable” immigration and asylum policies “Decisive and unequivocal stand” needed against Poland’s suspension of asylum New material from across Europe Continue reading
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What Is Behind England’s Riots
The series of race and anti-migrant riots that have been sweeping across England’s vast deindustrialised regions in the North West, North East, Midlands and Yorkshire have been ineffably ugly to behold. Continue reading
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“We must stop another Windrush.”
“EU citizens may soon encounter issues akin to those witnessed in the Windrush scandal,” say legal charity Here For Good. Last year, the Home Office introduced “draconian rules” relating to late applications for the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS). The scheme gives EU citizens legal rights to stay in the UK post-Brexit. Continue reading
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Let’s demand the impossible
The Rwanda Deportation sham continues to dominate British politics causing relentless trauma. Continue reading
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If hope had wings
We’re delighted to share, “Hope”, our latest creative exhibition with you. ‘Hope’ is a stunning exploration of memory, future dreams, freedom, resilience, family and community. It is creative solidarity. Continue reading
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Show up for racial justice for Palestinians – oppose the Anti-Boycott Bill
Over the last weeks, campaigners in the UK have targeted arms manufacturers, companies, banks and universities that are complicit in the violation of rights of Palestinians living under occupation. They have also protested against the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill (otherwise known as the anti-boycott bill) that had its third Commons reading… Continue reading
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The Bibby barge must be stopped!
Friday, 15 December 2023 — Crowd Justice “This tragedy underlines the importance of why we’re doing this. The barge must be stopped. The Bibby Stockholm is wholly unsuitable as housing for asylum-seekers,” says Carralyn Parkes, a local resident of Portland, Dorset.Her words come after the tragic news that a man died on board the barge Continue reading
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Refugee Week: celebration and resistance
Thursday, 22 June 2023 — Institute of Race Relations As we mark Refugee Week, we applaud all those who have taken to the streets to ensure that criticisms of the EU and Greece for creating the conditions for the worst shipwreck in recent Mediterranean history are not staved off by authorities in Greece who have Continue reading
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Gov announces new Hostile Environment Taskforce – help us fight back!
Last week, the government announced the creation of a new Home Office taskforce that will attempt to expand Hostile Environment immigration policies. Continue reading
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UK: State violence in a no-access border zone
Exactly a year ago, a dinghy with 34 people on board sank in the English Channel. There were two survivors. In the three hours it took for the boat to sink, as distress messages flooded in from those on board, French and British coastguards debated whose responsibility it was to rescue them. No help came,… Continue reading
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An Excess of Evacuees
The last month has seen Russian forces take the Ukrainian electricity system offline piece by piece, power stations as well as substations being destroyed in a series of devastating strikes. This has prompted the mayor of Kiev to propose evacuating the entire population from the city as well as its environs due to the increasingly untenable situation… Continue reading
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UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s Refugee Plan Is Illegal. The UK Will Implement It Anyway
Refugee organisations have balked at new proposals by the British government to ban refugees who cross the English Channel from seeking asylum. Home Secretary Suella Braverman set out the new plans at the Conservative Party conference on Tuesday in a bid to cut down the number of migrants taking the dangerous journey from France. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 