In the year and a bit since the iconic resistance that stopped an immigration raid in Glasgow’s Kenmure Street, mass resistance to raids seems to have spread, with Edinburgh, Dalston and Peckham being three recent examples. This week, it was the turn of Leeds and Manchester to shut down immigration raids. Leeds Anti Raids Action
An ill-advised immigration raid launched on a sunny Saturday in Dalston, London turned ugly yesterday after police officers attacked large crowds who’d turned out to oppose it. The high street raid, which kicked off at around half-six as people thronged the street getting dinner or going out for the evening, was picked up almost immediately
Scorsby was on the ground at yesterday’s spectacular, and successful, effort to deter an immigration raid in Edinburgh. At around a quarter to six the first call-outs began. An immigration raid van had been spotted outside a popular restaurant in the centre of Edinburgh and people were calling for assistance. By 7.30pm over two hundred
Every year, 12th June is commemorated by Justice for Workers (J4W) – a campaign started in 2006 by majority Latin American cleaning staff at School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) to fight for the fair working conditions of all workers at the university. The cleaning team were called into SOAS under the pretence of
The authorities decided on a unique opening ceremony in the open air, and maximum security with all the police in the world — both are getting pissed on Hours before the start of the Olympic Games, coordinated acts of sabotage targeted several high-speed lines in France during the night, disrupting all traffic and immobilising 800,000
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