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A canine demonstrator at a previous rally in solidarity with refugees this month
PROTESTERS are rallying across Britain tomorrow to demand that the government take responsibility for refugees in Europe and end its “racist” border regime.
The nationwide day of action, called by Stand up to Racism and Care4Calais, is being held in solidarity with asylum-seekers displaced by the Moria camp fire in Lesbos last week and those facing routine police brutality in northern France.
Campaigners condemned the British government’s “shameful inaction” in response to the humanitarian crisis in Lesbos where 12,000 refugees have been sleeping in the streets for over a week, with little food or water.
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
Listening to our own communities and organising within them holds the key to stopping the advance of Reform UK and other far-right initiatives, posits TONY CONWAY
