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immigration controls

The Nationality and Borders Bill - why we should oppose immigration controls

7pm Wednesday 1st December


Join the online Meeting on Zoom meeting ID: 861 2001 6477  Passcode: 967537 or http://bit.ly/OxTVSWP

The drowning of 30 more people, including 5 children, in the Channel this week exposes the deadlinesss of the Tories immigration policy.  In the UK, for those that do make the deadly Channel crossing from France, the Tories' vicious Nationality and Borders Bill further strips the rights of those who migrate or flee here.  In the weeks leading up to this latest tradgedy a new and already fatal refugee crisis formed on the borders between Belarus, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.

Wealthy people fly around the planet with barely a need for a passport. Money can be exported from one country to another at the touch of a button. Bosses shut factories to relocate for cheaper workers. But the movement of people and labour is strictly controlled.

The recent Afghan refugee crisis has once again demonstrated a huge outpouring of solidarity - and from the racist right a predictable backlash.

Why are borders so important to the modern state? Why do politicians and the media obsess about “border security”? What lies behind the politics of exclusion and ‘national interest’. How can we best fight for a world without borders?

(All our meetings also have a second half activist discussion about other current political events, national and local campaigns in the context of Covid etc)

 

 

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Emergency protest - don't let them drown - refugees welcome

5:15 Friday 26th November - Carfax Tower, central Oxford

Called by Oxford Stand Up To Racism

At least 30 people, including 5 children, have drowned trying to cross the Channel today. Out thoughts are with those who lost their lives and their loved ones.
 
The British government's racist hostile environment, and its latest attack on refugees and migrants in the Nationality and Borders Bill, has and will continue to lead to the horror and tragedy of loss of life in the Channel.
We say don't let them drown, end the racist hostile environment, scrap the borders bill, and we say loud and clear, refugees are welcome here!
Safe passage for all
 
Join us at Carfax , or if you can't make it physically, please share the event, and invite friends.

 

FTS
F*ck the system! How can we change the world?
 
A day of radical politics for students and young workers who hate Tories and capitalism. Includes workshops & social

Saturday 4th December

Birbeck, University of London, Malet St, WC1E 7HX

Register here

Socialism 101 event. Discussions include:

  • Marxism and identity: radical liberation from below
  • Class war and revolution: Marxism in the 21st century
  • Social

Our generation has been shafted. Tuition fees, covid, a housing and rent crisis, poorly paid jobs - the list goes on. And if that wasn’t enough, the bigger political situation is one of chaos and crisis - climate change, the rise of the far right, transphobia. No wonder so many of us think the system is f*cked.

But what can we do about it? We’ve seen some inspirational protests in recent years, from Black Lives Matter to Palestine Solidarity to climate strikes. These flashes of resistance have pointed the way to winning real changes in society. But some big questions have also been raised about tactics and strategies for changing the world.

How can we turn anger at the system into a movement to change it? What kind of politics can win us real liberation from below? And how do we get the system change we need?