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Clare Moseley (first left), Weyman Bennett (second left), Mark Serwotka (second right)
CIVIL servants should be proud of the Tory government’s “anger and bitterness” after their groundbreaking legal challenges frustrated Downing Street’s dangerous anti-refugee policies, Stand Up To Racism’s Weyman Bennett said today.
The veteran anti-fascist campaigner praised Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) members for taking a stand against plans to push back small boats in the English Channel and deport vulnerable asylum-seekers to Rwanda.
He was speaking at a fringe meeting of the union’s annual conference in Brighton after the Home Office was forced to abandon plans to make Border Force officials potentially risk the lives of migrants at sea following the threat of legal challenges from PCS and campaign groups last year.
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
