A motion for trade union branches
Considering, government attacks on asylum seekers and immigrants through the racist and divisive system of immigration controls, we reject the continuous criminalisation and demonisation of all immigrants conducted by the media and politicians.
This branch calls for support and solidarity for all asylum seekers and immigrants who face fierce attacks on their rights and demand full and equal rights for all.
As trade unionists we demand the right to work for all asylum seekers who are denied this fundamental right and an end to the serious abuse and exploitation of migrant workers. We stand by the call for workers of the world to unite – which is not based on the immigration status of the worker, it means all workers. And we reject the divisive political and media rhetoric ‘legal’ v ‘illegal.’ We are one working class indigenous and immigrant.
We oppose the detention and deportation of immigrants, to Rwanda or anywhere else, and believe everyone has the right to seek asylum here.
We oppose the corralling of people, who came here to seek safety, in unsuitable mass accommodation sites like the Bibby Stockholm barge, and ex-military sites such as RAF Scampton and RAF Wethersfield.
At this time, we call for trade union support and solidarity to people who are being detained at reporting centres, work places and their homes to face potential deportation to Rwanda or elsewhere. We support PCS’ characterisation of the policy as ‘morally reprehensible and utterly inhumane.’
We call on trade unionists
To support the above and to demand the processing of all outstanding asylum applications
To demand restoration of the right to claim asylum, to anyone seeking safety in the UK, as afforded in the Refugee Convention
To demand and voice opposition to the kidnapping and disappearances of asylum seekers and demand an end to this practice
To demand the immediate release of anyone held in detention
To demand and support campaigns to close all detention centres
To end the division of workers and demand the equal rights and access to employment, education, health-care and the mainstream benefit system To provide active support to asylum seekers and immigrants attending their compulsory signing appointments where they are being disappeared and support activists providing information and support outside Home Office signing centres (Capitol House, Liverpool)
To provide help and support in the production of information leaflets
George Galloway is the leader of the WorkersPartyGB, they are fighting the Labour Party but Galloway in his many media interviews is seeking to oust the Labour Party over their support for genocide whilst adopting backward and rightist views on many social issues.
These positions are divisive. Israel, the USA and Europe are powerful enemies of the Palestinians and instead of attacking the rights of oppressed people we need to build unity on the streets and in struggle.
The demonstrations across Britain have been very diverse and we need to build the strongest struggle alliance between the youth, women, people of colour and the unions. That is building, but the WPB positions will undermine that fight. Their views must be opposed as part of the struggle to liberate Palestine and to liberate ourselves. Many Palestinians say that – your support for our liberation is to fight for your liberation. And we say yes the strategy is building a common struggle while respecting autonomies. There are no short cuts.
The Palestinian movement is led by youth across the world. We have to listen to the new leaders as they lead the mass struggles to stop the genocide, stop arming Israel and free Palestine by the means of international struggle and a single secular state that is non racist where Palestinians and Jews can live together in peace, so long as the colonialists don’t attack it.