Real security comes from having a secure base at home — Keir Starmer’s reckless and renegade decision to get Britain deeper into the proxy war against Russia is as dangerous as it is wasteful, writes SALLY SPIERS
The increase in immigration fees is racist and divisive
In the midst of a cost-of-living crisis, ramping up in visa and immigration fees will leave students and highly skilled migrants counting the cost, writes HARSEV BAINS of the Indian Workers Association
The plan is to stigmatise and destabilise South Africa in preparation for breaking it up while creating a confused and highly racialised atmosphere around immigration in the US to aid in denying rights to non-white refugees, explains EMILE SCHEPERS
ALAN SIMPSON warns that Starmer’s triangulation strategy will fail just as New Labour’s did, with each rightward move by Labour pushing Tories further right
From the 1917 Balfour Declaration to today’s F-35 sales, Britain’s historical responsibility has now evolved into support for the present-day outright genocide. But our solidarity movement is growing too, writes BEN JAMAL
DIANE ABBOTT MP warns Starmer’s newly declared war on foreigners and scroungers won’t fix housing or services — only class struggle against austerity can do that, and defeat Farage in the process
Ben Chacko talks to ALAN MARDGHUM of the Durham Miners Association about Reform UK‘s dangerous inroads into Durham’s long-standing Labour county council; why he cancelled his party membership; and the political class’s disconnect from working people
Speaking to a CND meeting in Cambridge this week, SIMON BRIGNELL traced how the alliance’s anti-communist machinery broke unions, diverted vital funds from public services, and turned workers into cannon fodder for profit
WITH members of Parliament demob-happy in readiness of recess this week, a discriminatory hike in fees affecting migrant workers and students is announced by the Home Office.
It is scandalous from the Home Office which, according to the Times, reportedly made a half a billion pounds’ profit in 2019. This was an increase of 91 per cent since 2014.
At the time leading newspapers exposed the “rampant profiteering” from immigration fees. The Independent quoted the Dean of Durham Law School Tom Brooks, who stated: “The Home Office already makes a hefty profit of 900 per cent on the processing of immigration fees. Not only are migrants paying the full costs for the delivery of immigration services, a large share of what is charged goes to non-immigration purposes.”
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