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Offshoring refugees by force to Rwanda is inhumane and cruel
Nothing about this plan makes sense, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP, unless it's simply aimed to disgust and enrage all decent people — it is illogical and fails on its own terms, costing us far more than exercising basic humanity to refugees
The British government has persistently been warned that if they do not open safe and legal routes for people to practice their legal right to claim asylum, deaths at sea are unavoidable. Yet the government has proceeded to close the few legal avenues that exist, such as the right to family reunion.
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
THE proposal to deport asylum-seekers 4,000 miles away to Rwanda is a desperate and shameful announcement by Boris Johnson in an attempt to dehumanise refugees, pit our communities against each other and distract from his own law breaking.
The announcement demonstrates that there are no depths this government is not willing to sink to in order to divide and rule our country and protect its own interests.
It is a cruel, racist, unworkable, unethical and extortionate policy that would cost the British taxpayer billions of pounds during a cost-of-living crisis and which abandons our legal obligation to refugees and asylum-seekers.
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