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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.
![Relaxing at the camp outside Southampton [Pic: Marx Memorial Library]](https://msd11.gn.apc.org/sites/default/files/styles/desktop/public/2026-07/A3_E_22_Basque_Refugee_Camp_Southampton_1937042.jpg.webp?itok=2UAtKdNN)
The evacuation of thousands of Basque children became a landmark act of compassion during the Spanish civil war, write SIMON MARTINEZ and MANUEL MORENO
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)
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe