Andy Burnham is the only declared candidate to replace Starmer as Labour leader and UK Prime Minister. Will he bring more of the same? We wrote to him with our grave concerns about his positions on migration and foreign policy. Read our letter here. jcwi.org.uk/updates/jcwi...

This week on CounterPower, @seemasyeda.bsky.social joins me to interview Danièle Obono, La France Insoumise MP for Paris. We discuss France’s Left ahead of next year’s critical presidential election👇 m.youtube.com/watch?v=ID2s...

Building a Future in Common: The French Left with Danièle Obono

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Seema Syeda from JCWI said: “The government’s border regime is pushing people into unsafe routes & criminalising people. The simple, moral answer is to allow people seeking safety to use the same routes as everyone else: train, ferry, plane. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘I don’t have a life’: man sent to France in ‘one in, one out’ refugee scheme tells of return to UK

Exclusive: ‘Desperate’ man, in hiding after returning in a lorry, says he knows of 18 others from scheme who live in Britain covertly

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It was great to meet @seemasyeda.bsky.social from @jcwi-uk.bsky.social to discuss about People movement & migration

RAS Voice@rasvoice.bsky.social · 3mo ago

RAS Voice hosted a stall, led a workshop on the right to work ban, & Jonathan was a featured panelist to speak on Lift the Ban RAS Voice was so delighted to be part of the Union Movement Upcoming Events: National Teachers Union (July) & the main TUC Congress (September) @refugeeaction.bsky.social

On Wednesday a man recently released from psychiatric hospital is alleged to have attempted to murder Ishmail Hussein and to have attacked Shloime Rand and Moshe Shine. The accused had been staying in supported housing for mental health patients in South London. [1/2]

Et la veille nous avons organisé la participation de Danièle au podcast Counter Power de @seemasyeda.bsky.social 👀

London, here we go⚡️ We are so thrilled to invite you for the UK launch of our internationalist manifesto “Revolutions of our Times” on Thursday, April 16 2026 at 6 PM at Pelican House, London. Registration link in bio 👆 Don’t miss it if you are around🔥 @haymarketbooks.org

Our @seemasyeda.bsky.social speaks out in the Morning Star against the government’s unjust, racist and classist attacks on migrants and refugees, calling on MPs to stand up and reverse these inhumane policies.

Our @seemasyeda.bsky.social speaks out against how this government is using performative cruelty to legitimise violence against migrants and people of colour. Join your local raid group and resist these racist raids. Read the full report 👇 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘They singled out non-white, foreign-born workers’: the restaurants raided by Britain’s version of ICE

They’re not armed and they keep a relatively low profile. But the Home Office’s immigration compliance and enforcement officers have searched thousands of business in pursuit of illegal workers. Are t...

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We are here, because you were there. Shabana Mahmood’s racist and classist ‘earned settlement’ proposals must be scrapped. 🧵[1/4]

American imperialism won’t bring ‘democracy’ - in fact it’s historically been the opposite. Real democracy happens when the people revolt from below and take control of their resources. Me on @lbc.co.uk for @ukstoptrump.bsky.social this morning.

The UK government arms and morally supports the Zionist regime. It is complicit in this war. #Iran

GREEN WIN at Gorton & Denton shows that a politics of hope, antiracism, Palestine solidarity & going for the billionaires can win, and win MASSIVELY. But elections alone won’t save us. We need to be ready to resist the violent state forces controlled by a corrupt antidemocratic billionaire class.

The new Counter Power podcast is out. I’m with @seemasyeda.bsky.social and @lukecooper100.bsky.social discussing how the far right has transformed and become a global force… and how we fight it 👇 m.youtube.com/watch?v=C112...

How the far right went global

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We have 400 volunteers on the streets of Gorton and Denton today. Labour are out of it. It's Greens vs Reform. Lower bills, tax the rich, protect the NHS. We will win. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

Exclusive: Zack Polanski Accuses Nigel Farage Of 'Running Scared' Of Head-To-Head Debate

The Reform leader said "if you pick a fight which a chimney sweep you get covered in soot".

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Billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money is being wasted on border controls, the detention estate, and shitty asylum ‘accommodation’ aka prisons that isolate people seeking safety from communities. All that money could be spent on good, cheap social housing for EVERYONE.

Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants@jcwi-uk.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our Griff Ferris speaks on the BBC about the waste of public money on private companies that profit from providing inadequate housing for those seeking safety & how this money can go towards improving local council housing to house people seeking asylum in our communities, where they belong. S: BBC

So Elon Musk asked Jeffrey Epstein “Do you have any parties planned? I’ve been working to the edge of sanity this year …”. Working right on across the edge, he then became obsessed with the idea that only Muslim men in the UK operate child grooming gangs www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Elon Musk had more extensive ties to Epstein than previously known, emails show

Newly released files from DoJ show the pair making plans in 2012 and 2013 for the Tesla CEO to visit Epstein’s island

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I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

So honoured to support the amazing team @jcwi-uk.bsky.social in this important work. The struggle carries on for liberation and the dismantling of colonial border regimes ✊🏽

Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants@jcwi-uk.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🎉Our client has won! In a landmark case, he is the first Palestinian born in Israeli-occupied Palestine to be granted asylum in Britain, despite sinister ministerial intervention. 🧵[1/5] www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

🎉Our client has won! In a landmark case, he is the first Palestinian born in Israeli-occupied Palestine to be granted asylum in Britain, despite sinister ministerial intervention. 🧵[1/5] www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Palestinian citizen of Israel wins UK asylum over ‘well-founded fear of persecution’

Exclusive: Refugee status granted despite attempt by former home secretary James Cleverly to block 26-year-old’s claim

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Colonialism is crisis. It’s time for global movements around the world to rise up against extractive corporations driving war and militarism. #venezuela

The people have risen up to rid Minneapolis of ICE agent killers. Governments and police don’t keep us safe. We keep us safe. This is how we build resistance.

The stupidity of decades of UK defence policy remaining dependent on America is now unveiling itself. You gonna fight Trump’s annexation of Greenland with defence infrastructure dependent on US supply chains? Pfft.

It’s the United States that needs regime change.

Empire. Unmasked. Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Ukraine, Syria, Vietnam, Algeria, Venezuela. ‘National’ sovereignty doesn’t protect anyone from the imperialist logics of capital.

From Sudan to Gaza, genocide and war show the human rights framework is already woefully inadequate. Yet this government is organising transnationally to undermine it further, using migrants as scapegoats. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

UK leaving European convention on human rights would be a mistake, equalities chief warns

Mary-Ann Stephenson defends convention as ‘really important’ and warns against demonisation of migrants

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📣 THIS FRIDAY, JOIN THE FIGHTBACK Our AGM takes place online and in London from 5-8pm on 12 December. With an exciting array of speakers from Black Lives Matter to UNISON union, we'll strategise how we resist in 2026. Join as a member to attend👇 jcwi.org.uk/updates/annu...

Migrants must have no debt??? The whole country is based on debt. That’s what Britain sells to the world. It makes our elite wealthy. But of course, their victims just deserve ever more punishment.

I’m on Islam Channel’s ‘THE DEBATE’ at 9pm tonight - discussing Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum plans. Tune in online or on Sky 736, Freeview 264 or Virgin 838!

The government is not even trying to hide its far-right turn. Yesterday’s asylum changes show it clearly. We will keep resisting the scapegoating of migrants, and we will always stand by one another.