The new government rules out rejoining the EU, but acts as if it wants to adopt by stealth all those things British workers rejected in 2016 – above all a return to free movement of labour, open borders.
Mass immigration – war on the working class
Capitalism encourages mass immigration as a strategy to keep wages low, deskill jobs and weaken working class unity.
Net migration to Britain in 2023 was 685,000, equivalent to the population of Sheffield. How should British workers respond?
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P&O Ferries workers are continuing to protest against the notorious sacking and re-hiring scandal.
29 March 2024
Most immigration to Britain is by legal routes, the result of long term government policy. The number of visas continues to rise, which will contribute to a rapid rise in Britain’s population.
27 March 2024
Protests continue against the notorious P&O Ferries sackings two years ago. Unions are calling for changes to prevent any repeat, but the government isn’t taking effective action.
No sooner had control been wrested from the EU than the government set about outsourcing it to the market and the multinationals…
The RMT and Nautilus International, the trade unions representing workers sacked by P&O Ferries, continue to fight the sackings.
21 April 2022
Trade unions representing workers sacked by P&O Ferries continue their fight the sackings with a series of rallies at ports around the country and outside the offices of P&O’s Dubai-owned parent company.
30 March 2022
Sacked seafarers are taking the fight to P&O Ferries with demonstrations around the country in response to the employer’s brazen actions.
19 March 2022
P&O Ferries sacked 800 British crew from its ferries on Wednesday 17 March. The response from workers was immediate and clear. Demonstrations are happening around British ports. Unions are taking the fight to the company.
British seafarers are becoming ever rarer as low wages and immigration waivers bedevil the industry…
17 October 2021
The government is to allow foreign HGV drivers entering the country with a load from abroad unlimited licence to spend two weeks collecting and delivering goods before they return.
8 October 2021
The RMT has released figures revealing a massive decline in the employment of British seafarers, compounded by poverty wages in the maritime sector.
How wildly distorted statistics helped an unholy alliance of EU-adherents and enthusiasts for globalism to turn a supply-chain glitch into a full-blown crisis.
20 May 2021
In the midst of a global pandemic, what is a country like Britain doing importing nurses from India, itself in desperate need of medical staff?
Thousands applied to become agricultural and horticultural workers after appeals by government and farmers for a new “land army” to help prevent millions of tonnes of fruit and vegetables going to waste during the coming period.
16 April 2020
With massive spikes in workers looking for farming jobs, some farmers are still chartering flights to bring in workers from eastern Europe.
The Immigration White Paper proposes to remove any cap on skilled migration (degree level) from anywhere in the world.
10 December 2018
In echoes of May’s Brexit “negotiations”, a proposed Swiss agreement over free movement from the EU is facing likely defeat.
3 July 2018
Unnoticed in the British media, a fierce battle is raging as the European Union tries to force Switzerland to agree to wide-ranging changes in its relationship with the bloc.
The vicious treatment of the Windrush Britons – who arrived from the Caribbean as children from 1948 to 1971 – contrasts starkly with the position of EU nationals under the Brexit transition agreement.
A focus on importing skilled labour denies skill here – and damages foreign countries…
Free movement of labour from inside and outside the EU has seen employers taking on staff at below even the minimum wage.
We’ve had a government policy paper over free movement. But we still need clarity…
People smuggling, trafficking, organised gangs – what’s free about that?
The points at which money can be made in the trafficking process...
After 7 May, what should workers do? We don’t have the luxury of just preparing for the next election, as the Labour party is doing – though it looks like it is seeing how to lose the next election too.
The government is sponsoring a series of television adverts against slavery in Britain. The domestic servant, the farm hands, the sweat shop labourers, the sex worker etc. The great unsaid, but obvious from the presentations, is that these modern-day slaves are migrant workers.
