On June 5, The News of the World publicly boasted in its pages about one of the most disgraceful acts ever carried out in the name of journalism. In an article entitled 'We catch 2 bus loads of illegal immigrants, they explained how their undercover journalist had gone out pretending to be taking people to work.
Instead he kidnapped seventy migrants up in a bus and delivered them to Colnbrook objective was, apparently, to expose the Home Office's failure to deal with 'illegal immigrants.
No one is illegal and No Borders London called a protest outside the paper's office which is taking place as we go to press. We hope it will be wellstop kacism
Stop deportati Protestors outside Harmondsworth supported.
Detainees at Colnbrook have not responded passively either. This is their reply: Iran is Unsafe
OrAsylum Familie & Chidren Section 9 Barbarism Dear Mr. Mahmood, We, the detainees of Colnbrook
Detention Centre think that you
are a gutless, incompetent, bully, and together with your editors and newspapers pick on foreigners because they are a soft target. You do not represent the real views of the common UK nationals, but rather, you have been misleading the general public with your unfair, ill-informed news partial news for years.
You have influenced the way this government perceives it should deal with refugees and asylum, by presenting it as incompetent, to make it adopt inhuman policies against people who have fled their countries of origin for one reason or another. This has led to refugees not seeking asylum with the authorities, for fear of being detained and removed to countries where their lives would be in danger. This has in turn pushed those refugees to provide for their survival by being exploited to work long hours for very low pay (such as the ones you helped catch), for those very fears.
From your name, I can tell that you are a descendant of immigrants. In your quest to further your career, to please your bosses, to embarrass the government, and for whatever other selfish motives you may have in taking advantage of foreigners in the UK, we wonder how you sleep at night.
You should reconsider your position by educating yourself on retugees, asylum seekers and immigrant' issues before you unfairly target them.
You should go back to your roots and stop thinking that you are better than any other forDriT
Anti BNP Protest 8 May
outside Birmingham Council
House called by UNITE to
protest at the fact that
Sharon Ebanks of the BNP
was declared elected as
BP councillor for
Kingstanding. The Returning
Officer later announced that the result was incorrect. following its council election results.
This is true of the fascists as well. We can predict with some certainty that their council groups will slowly start to unravel as thev demonstrate their ineptitude and details of their pasts start to become public.
But that isn't really the point. Holding elected office gives them a broader legitimacy which helps persuade the undecided to vote fo1 them elsewhere in the future.
Behind this ludicrous advice are wrong judgements
what types party Respect and Labour are.
Labour is, as it always was, a pillar of British capitalism. It has moved to the right and eigners just because you hold British citizenship.
Well done for doing none of your business, and encouraging vigilantism. You would be very much at home with BNP and Migrant Watch, Mr. Mazher Mahmood (News of the World) for your Nazi-like work of spreading hate and kidnapping people to detention centres ( UK concentration camps). Print this in your hate paper if you have the spine!
We recommend you enlighten your ignorant self by reading the UNHCR's 'Victims of intolerance.
Yours sincerely,
Colnbrook Detainees
• Message of support/solidarity can be sent to:
colnbrook.detainees@google mail.com
KEEP OUR Unite L COUNCIL
NAZI-FREE
NO FASCISTS BIRMINGHAN COUNCIL is evangelical in its neo-liberalism and its love of imperialist war.
Nevertheless it still remains a bourgeois workers' party. The majority of the vanguard of the British working class will look to it to help fight the fascists.
Many of us may not agree with them on the correctness of this view, but that is our problem - and one which we need to deal with by engaging in united fronts with the Labour larty as well as Labour Party members.
This also means calling for a vote for Labour where they are standing against the fascists. Unless of course a viable Respect candidate is standing.
Kespect 1s emerging as a key element of a new workers' party in Britain. Its local government election campaign was explicitly anti-imperialist and anti-neo liberal.
It lought as a socialist organisation which already demonstrated that it had a mass support. Calling for abstention in these circumstances is wilful blindness to a living process.