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A GROUP of volunteers from Syria Solidarity Movement came to The Jungle refugee camp in Calais yesterday loaded with sweets and messages of support for the 300 Syrians living there.
Ten minutes in from the entrance of the camp, next to a small tent with clothes hanging out to dry, two young men from Syria stand smoking.
Ahmed is a young mechanical engineer from Damascus who spoke to the Star in English about traveling to France and being stranded in the fishing town, awaiting asylum in Britain.
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum