The police's overriding purpose is, and always will be, the preservation of an order that serves the status quo. Any actions that present a perceived threat are met with unsympathetic authoritarian force

After 40 days of strike action, tomorrow British Gas will dismiss workers who have refused to sign their fire and rehire contracts. They have led from the front and stood against a bullying employer. The CWU is with you RT if you stand with the British Gas workers.

Fancy getting covid today of all days...

Great to see this from Unite the union: join a union. And a perfect opportunity to say how excited I am to have a new PhD student, Jack Beadsworth, working on the rights to organise of undocumented workers.

Huge news for Brixton

And this, everyone, is the greatest video of all time:

Bleak hour or so not far from Calais. Scores and scores of people having to walk up and down the roadside after their camp was broken up by police. They say officers confiscated their sleeping bags and equipment. It’s cold, miserable- saw a couple of kids crying in the street.

The bottom line is that the UK government wants to stop the boats not to save people’s lives but to prevent them coming to Britain, and when you think about that for a second it’s the most disgusting thing imaginable

youtube.com/watch?v=ilSBK6… Same vibe

'Freedom'

[87] Would've made a great game for live tv, this... 🦅2-1🔵 #Harriers #COYR

Criminal law is fundamentally incapable of effectively tackling labour exploitation

Missed the polling where a key working class concern was the absence of summary executions in the street

This is so incompatible with the refugee convention it beggars belief

The determination to 'prove' that the people who drowned in November were not refugees but mere 'migrants', based on nothing more than a couple of quotes from bereaved relatives, is absolutely sickening

What a surprise that the Home Office is including small boat arrivals in its irregular migration statistics, despite 98% claiming asylum...one can only wonder why they want to elide asylum with irregular migration

"Shutting the door on migrants coming here isn't going to look good on the UK" As MPs set to vote on controversial new laws that will overhaul the whole immigration system, Catherine Jones speaks to Sabir Zazai 🧡, a former refugee now helping those arriving in Britain get settled