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10 April 2004
TONY BLAIR'S latest government crisis has been over immigration policy. As this issue hit newspaper headlines, New Labour MPs went into shock at the prospect of it spiralling out of control and the possible electoral consequences...
28 February 2004
Netherlands: Government Scapegoats Asylum Seekers
THE DUTCH parliament's lower house voted on 17 February to expel up to 26,000 "failed asylum seekers" over the next three years. This cruel and inhumane policy has shocked and angered Dutch working people and also many people across Europe.
24 January 2004
FRANCIS TIENGA Ngale is a Cameroonian asylum seeker, a member of Cameroon's main opposition party, Social Democratic Front and the Socialist Party. He is battling against deportation because of the dangerous conditions he will face if he is returned...
17 January 2004
Asylum Seekers Fast For Their Rights
ASYLUM SEEKERS held a 48-hour fast in Nottingham city centre from 9 January to 11 January, protesting at laws making many asylum seekers in Britain destitute. ...
29 November 2003
Blunkett's Sick Plans For Asylum Seekers
HOME SECRETARY David Blunkett is planning to begin forced repatriation of refugees to northern Iraq, which he says is 'generally overwhelmingly safe', writes Naomi Byron.
11 October 2003
New Labour and asylum: Blunkett's Callous Plans
"Tough With The Workers, Toadying With The Millionaires": THE PRINCIPLE of offering a safe haven to those in need is being subjected to "death by a thousand cuts", writes Paula Mitchell.
6 September 2003
Asylum seekers: Blunkett's harsh policies ignore reality
HOME SECRETARY David Blunkett has seized on a fall in the number of asylum applications to declare that New Labour's 'get tough' asylum policies are working, writes Chris Thomas.
19 July 2003
Asylum Seekers Fear Repression
SHAHIN PORTOHFEH, an Iranian asylum seeker living in Coventry sewed up his lips, eyes and ears in protest at the threat of deportation last week. He took no food or fluids for nearly five days, writes Rob Windsor, Coventry Socialist Party councillor.
12 July 2003
Polls apart: THE DEATHS of US and British soldiers in Iraq have cut support for the war this spring both in the USA and Britain...
19 April 2003
THE ANNUAL military budget of the USA is $400 billion. The increase in US defence department spending alone matches what the world spends on international aid every year, writes Ken Douglas.
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