Socialist Resistance

An archive of socialistresistance.org, 2002–2022

Possible platform position for SR on asylum

Socialist Resistance no13  |  page 7-8

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centres and the imprisonment of asylum seekers; 2. End the White List of "safe' countries and end deportations; threatens asylum seekers whose appeal has failed with destitution; world and elsewhere; reparations to rebuild economies shattered by imperialism. right to access to free legal, education, health and social services; borders. 7. Reparations to rebuild economies shattered by the neo-liberal policies of imperialism 1. Defend asylum seekers, scrap Section 55, end the policy of dispersal, the use of detention 3. Oppose the new asylum legislation which criminalises undocumented asylum seekers. cuts legal aid to an unworkable 4 and 5 hours, reduces the process to one tier of appeal anc 4. Tear up the EU's "Fortress Europe' policy that criminalises people from the neo-colonia 5. Give all asylum seekers and refugees the right to work, the right to food and shelter, the 6. International capital and multinational corporations are free to move around the world We fight for freedom of movement for all peoples, an end to immigration laws and for oper

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nee February 2004