xenophobia
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South Africa is on a knife edge as xenophobia escalates
With no national force with the vision and power to offer an emancipatory alternative to politics that turns neighbors against each other, the country is on a knife edge. Continue reading
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Hi Fly: Airline profiting from deportations while owners decry ‘desperate plight of migrants’
The government’s attempts to hastily expel Channel-crossing migrants on charter flights have gathered pace, with a series of deportations over the last two months. Continue reading
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‘They’re Making Racism and Xenophobia Into a Legitimate Voice’
The mainstream parties have been very willing to use xenophobic, anti-immigrant rhetoric, to one degree or another, to ensure that they win votes, and also as a way of redirecting resentment, as their economic policies have caused poverty and have created a huge amount of resentment amongst working people in the UK. They need to… Continue reading
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When Media Learned Killer's Ethnicity, Then They Knew to Call It 'Terrorism'
News coverage over the past 48 hours of the Orlando nightclub attacks has shown how corporate media use specific vocabulary to manipulate public perceptions and perpetuate harmful stereotypes and xenophobia. Continue reading
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When Media Learned Killer’s Ethnicity, Then They Knew to Call It ‘Terrorism’
News coverage over the past 48 hours of the Orlando nightclub attacks has shown how corporate media use specific vocabulary to manipulate public perceptions and perpetuate harmful stereotypes and xenophobia. Continue reading
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Labour embraces UK Independence Party’s right-wing nationalism By Jordan Shilton
The victory by the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) in the May European elections in Britain and its strong gains in local elections have prompted the Labour Party to move even further to the right and adopt many of UKIP’s core positions. Continue reading
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3 immigration facts you need to share
We asked you why your friends or neighbours are tempted to vote UKIP, and one answer led by a mile: They’re being persuaded by UKIP’s strong anti-immigration stance. Continue reading
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UK: Refugee women in the UK: fighting back from behind bars By Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi
The experience of female asylum seekers is distinct to their gender, particularly when survivors of rape and torture, perpetrated by male state officials, are imprisoned and guarded by men here in the UK. Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi reports on the campaign to set them free. Continue reading
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The land of the living dead: Jeremy Paxman and Max Hasting’s Britain By Gerry Hassan
Britain’s elite is telling misleading stories about its noble history because for the majority of British people there is little hope for the future. The UK has become a state obsessed with the power of the past – but a re-imagined past created to mask the exhaustion of the older, positive accounts and the wanton… Continue reading
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Police State UK: Stripping UK citizenship by stealth By Alice Ross and Patrick Galey
Despite official denials, evidence has emerged that the Home Office has deliberately waited until UK citizens it plans to deprive of their citizenship have left the country. This requires no judicial approval—and greatly hinders any appeal Continue reading
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The nasty country? Debating immigration in the UK By Roger Roberts
A new Bill removes the right to appeal wrong immigration decisions, excludes undocumented migrants from the rental market, turns landlords into immigration police and extends charges for NHS care. On Monday Lords debated the proposals. Continue reading
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Should you have to ‘earn’ your right to use the NHS? By Alex Langford
On top of having to pay £200 on entering the UK to maintain the decadent luxury of their own health, a new government report highlights how even after making that payment, non-EU migrants will be liable for a raft of extra charges. Continue reading
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Anti-immigrant campaign intensifies in Britain By Jordan Shilton
Seizing on the lifting of temporary controls on the movement of Romanians and Bulgarians seeking work across Europe on January 1, the British media and political establishment have stepped up their denunciation of migrants. Continue reading
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NHS: Health is a right, not a reward for being born in the right place By Alex Langford
Don’t let the Daily Mail fool you. The vast majority of migrants work hard and pay tax. On average, they actually put 34% more into our economy than they take out, roughly £22 billion a year – compared with native Britons who contribute 11% less than the amount they take out. They fill vital holes… Continue reading
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Egyptian revolutionary socialist: ‘We are facing a counterrevolution’
Sameh Naguib: It is more difficult than any of us can ever remember, and one of the most difficult aspects is the fact that the majority of left wing and liberal intellectuals are completely in support of Egypt’s military leadership, 100 per cent. Continue reading
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Brave Words from a Bully Pulpit By Kiri Kankhwende
With current transitional controls imposed on Bulgarians and Romanians moving to Britain due to be lifted in January, anti-EU, and in particular, anti-Roma rhetoric is ramping up. Continue reading
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With our history – casual racism is not an option By Alastair Sloan
Racism in Britain is deep and structural. And too often, we don’t see it. With our history, we should know better – and we should notice how we are treating Roma people. Continue reading
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Groping in the Dark: Jack Straw and the Irrelevance of the Left By Carl Rowlands
No-one knows exactly how many people have moved to the UK from Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Baltic countries. Despite this, former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said that immediately admitting workers from the 2004 EU accession countries into the UK labour market was, in his words, a ‘mistake.’ Blithely untroubled by… Continue reading
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Neither working at a kebab shop, nor intending to blow up a plane By Gunes TAVMEN
When I first read Les Back and Shamser Sinha’s influential work on the texts that the UK Border Agency has been sending to ‘immigrants’ advising them it was time to leave the UK, and then their article on racist vans, I thought, “At last! The ways UKBA treats overseas people are finally made public!” I… Continue reading
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The spread of social blindness: migrants & the immigration Bill By Dexter Dias
The vans have stopped rolling, the posters have been taken down, the police have been forced to apologise. But something of importance has been revealed. For this group of cultural signals are wind chimes. Chimes that have been set in motion by the torrent of rhetoric swirling around the Immigration Bill, which received its Second… Continue reading
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