Borders / Migration

from email, 17 November 2006: "A new maximum security immigration detention complex under construction on Christmas Island, has been dubbed "Australia's Guantanamo Bay". Australia's new remote offshore detention centre will have cameras in bedrooms, electric fences and electronically controlled doors - to force centre-wide lock-downs. The level of security and surveillance, greater than at any existing detention centre, makes parts of the complex comparable to a maximum security prison..." more

We have seen thousands of people - men, women and children, arrive on these shores, desperate without papers to stay, without 'good reason' to be here, isolated from there families back home. The State responds, criminalising and detaining them. In refurbished air bases, jails, and detention centres. Classified and regulated as undesirables. more

For years there has been a deep divide in the (antiracist) Left when the issue of flight and migration comes up. While one side is talking about 'Fortress Europe' and mainly concentrates on attacking the ever more sophisticated regime of borders, camps and deportations, the other side favors the concept of 'autonomy of migration' as the archimedial reference point.  more

Britain, like any other country of the western world, is a huge prison for thousands and thousands of people who come here in search of a better life, the so-called 'asylum seekers'. It's not by chance that so many desperate people try to enter the UK as well as the other rich countries. They can't do otherwise. In their homeland not even the basic conditions of surviving are left. more

In London up to 4000 people marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar square. One of the largest blocs of the march was the Autonomous Bloc which consisted of around 500 people, marching on the issues of precarity and migration.  more

May Day is International Workers Day, a day that should recognize that the working class is an international class; that the oppressed and exploited throughout the world have everything in common with each other and nothing in common with 'their' nation, 'their' government and 'their' bosses.

So migrants, refugees, those deemed 'illegal immigrants' by the State, those facing deportation, people in detention, should be at the center of what May Day is all about more

Originally Posted 11.00 12 April 2006: This Mayday we invite all self-organised workers, migrant workers, non-unionised workers, agency workers, cash in hand workers, dole claimants, free-lancers, work rejecters and all of those who fall outside of traditional union organisation to join our autonomous bloc on the TUC march. To make Mayday a day where the invisible claim a common voice. more

Posted 18:30 02 November 2005: The coming days 4,5 and 6 of November departs to Ceuta the European Caravan against the Fence of death to protest against recent and current events on the fence-border between Spain and Morocco in the enclave of Ceuta. Call for action. (info from indy estrecho)  more

Posted 12:11 03 August 2005: Support Polish workers wildcat strike against Tescos in Ireland. Solidarity pickets this Thursday 4th August 2005, 6pm at Tesco's all over Ireland and at Hackney Central, London and other cities around UK. more

Posted 04:34 23 March 2005: We stand against racism and fortress Europe and for the rights of migrants and asylum seekers. For citizenship based on residency and the closing of all detention centres.  more

Posted 20:17 09 January 2005: The end of the olympics and of the biggest part of construction works means for the greek state the beginning of a new period, where immigration policies are being redefined as long as large numbers of immigrants who were used as expendable slaves for the realization of the «grand idea»1 are now considered useless.  more

Beyond ESF - October 2004: Spurred on by the news that our Serbian friend* was having real difficulties getting the visa to come to the ESF, the international sambistas showed up at the Southbank on the wet Thursday evening to join the No Borders action at Waterloo station. more

For those who didn't see it, this is the leaflet given out at Waterloo last Thursday night when the Eurostar arrivals section was stormed by a couple of hundred protestors. more

Posted 2 February 2004: Actions against borders and detention centres took place in 49 cities around Europe on Saturday January 31st 2004.  more

Posted 15:53 28 January 2004: 31st January 2004 is a day of action against borders, casualisation and the persecution of migants. more