soas occupied! free the cleaners!
SOAS (a college of the University of London) has been occupied by student and supporters over the immigration raid which we reported recently. SOAS management appear to have been involved in the raid,...
View ArticleSOAS occupation ends with mixed results
by Taimour Lay The occupation at SOAS ended disappointingly on Wednesday with a victory rally but few real gains. A statement released in the afternoon admitted that the ‘concessions’ made by Director...
View Articletestimony of a mitie worker in an immigration detention centre
Seven cleaners were detained after a raid by immigration police on 14th July, which took place with the complicity of Mitie and Willis. Among our detained sisters and brothers are Alejandro, Hermes...
View Articleamnesty for some, or papers for all?
At yesterday’s Hands Off My Workmate conference a speaker from London Citizens argued for a limited and conditional amnesty for some unregularised migrants as the only ‘pragmatic’ means of helping them...
View Articleinterview with migrant cleaners’ reps involved in 4,200-strong paris strike...
The strike by migrant workers in Paris demanding regularisation has now spread to over forty workplaces, and as it heads into its fourth week it now involves some 4,200 strikers. The latest...
View Articleno borders newsletter ‘movement’ issue 1
The first issue of ‘Movement’, a monthly newsletter covering the latest updates from the No Borders Network and beyond has been published. We are re-launching the No Borders Newsletter in an attempt to...
View Articleburn the borders
by the Collective for Solidarity with the accused of Vincennes On 25th-27th January the Paris High Court will try ten people for the fire at the Vincennes immigrant detention centre. Our solidarity...
View Articledutch cleaners win nine week strike
Dutch cleaners campaigned for six months for higher wages and went on strike for another nine weeks. It was the longest strike since 1933 and they won, ‘bread and roses’. By Willem Dekker, organizer of...
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