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The truth about immigration waits at the Polish border
It is not some natural crisis like a hurricane or a flood: migrants on the move are fleeing war, poverty and climate change — and those responsible must be held to account, writes NICK WRIGHT
Migrants receive food delivered by Belarusian officials in the logistics centre at the checkpoint ‘Kuznitsa’ at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus
LYNNE WALSH previews the Bristol Radical History Conference this weekend
Keir Starmer’s £120 million to Sudan cannot cover the government’s complicity in the RSF genocide or atone for the long shadow of British colonialism and imperialism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right
Ecuador’s election wasn’t free — and its people will pay the price under President Noboa
Mountains of research show that hardcore material harms children, yet there are still no simple measures in place
We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
THE causes of modern migration lie in empire and slavery. From the early 1500s until the late 19th century, 12.5 million Africans were transported to the Americas and the Caribbean, with two million dying on the way.
Over 1.5 million Indians — people from what is now India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Bangladesh — were transported around the British empire.
Almost all modern-day migration to Britain of people descended from these migratory millions arrived here from the British empire in order to meet the labour market demands of the “mother country.”
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