Immigration is a class matter
Massive migration into Britain is hitting pay, working conditions and vital infrastructure. It is an attack on the working class, and requires a working class response.
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Scotland: Perks for foreign students [print version]
On 22 January, Scotland’s First Minister, John Swinney, gave a speech in Glasgow at the Scottish headquarters of multinational financial services firm JP Morgan Chase.
Scotland: perks for foreign students
25 February 2025
Despite having no power to alter UK immigration policy, Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney has called for a visa scheme to let foreign students work in Scotland after they graduate from a Scottish college or university.
Migrating doctors
25 February 2025
The negative impact of migration is a topic that seemingly can’t be discussed. Yet there’s a pressing need to do so, not least in relation to doctors and healthcare workers.
Immigration: how workers can respond
It is a precious thing when workers are able to talk to one another – and listen to the ideas of others. Nowhere is this discussion more needed than over the movement of labour across borders…
Families don’t grow under capitalism
It’s getting harder and harder to build a family in Britain – and in particular to start one before your thirties. High house prices and low wages mean many are forced to wait longer than they want…
Immigration, class and nation
Immigration, class and nation
Saturday 30 November 2024 14:00
Saturday 30 November, 2pm
Britons Protection, 50 Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester M1 5LE
For decades British governments have encouraged massively increased immigration, and have ignored what workers think about that.
Not only is this an economic attack, but it is fostering divisions between workers at a time when they need unity.
Come and discuss. All welcome. Free entry.
Immigration, class and nation
The massive increase in immigration – both legal and illegal – has formed a constant background to events in Britain for over two decades. This is no accident.
Mass immigration – war on the working class
Mass immigration – war on the working class
Tuesday 5 November 2024 19:00
Capitalism encourages mass immigration as a strategy to keep wages low, deskill jobs and weaken working class unity.
Net migration to Britain in 2023 was 685,000, equivalent to the population of Sheffield. How should British workers respond?
Come and discuss. Email info@cpbml.org.uk for an invitation.
Housing, population and immigration: the facts
There’s a whole industry dedicated to ‘proving’ that importing workers into Britain is an undiluted good. Tell that to young people looking for somewhere even remotely affordable to live…
Migration: Legal and soaring [print version]
The increase in net migration into Britain is mainly driven by legal routes and not by people smuggled into the country.
Migration: more visas issued to stay in Britain
29 March 2024
Most immigration to Britain is by legal routes, the result of long term government policy. The number of visas continues to rise, which will contribute to a rapid rise in Britain’s population.
Why capitalists love higher immigration
Many people wonder why successive governments have failed to reduce immigration, or even control it. The answer is simple: the government and the employers like immigration, because it weakens workers.
Britain’s population set to increase sharply
2 February 2024
The Office of National Statistics predicts that the UK population will rise to over 73 million by 2036, an increase of 10 per cent over 2021. This will be overwhelmingly due to immigration.
NHS reliance on overseas nurse recruitment unsustainable
20 December 2023
Ninety-three per cent of nurses who joined the NHS in the last four years have been recruited from overseas. This startling fact was revealed by NHS England’s chief nurse in December.
Mass immigration – war on the working class
Mass immigration – war on the working class
Tuesday 30 January 2024 19:30
Tuesday 30 January 2024, 7.30 pm
Bertrand Russell Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Net migration reaches record levels, rising from 107,000 in 1997 to a record 745,000 at the end of 2022. The government blusters, but is determined to increase it yet further. How should we respond?
Come and discuss. All welcome.
Migration continues to rise
1 December 2023
Recent reports confirm that the government has lost control of immigration as the numbers coming to Britian, legally as well as illegally, continue to rise.
Open door to study in Britain
24 November 2023
The number of overseas students coming to study in Britain has reached a record high. Universities and government welcome this, but it’s to the detriment of British students.
Why the employers love rising immigration
All the bluster about illegal immigration – which continues unabated – is designed to obscure the government’s determination to raise migration levels even further…
Tough? It's just a show
The Conservative conference went into overdrive as government ministers vied with each other to be seen as tough on immigration. But all that mattered to them was the being seen part.
Nurse shortages – retain, don’t plunder
6 June 2023
Importing nurses from other countries is no answer to NHS staff shortages. Retaining nurses already working would be a step in the right direction.
Crisis in British semiconductor sector
16 February 2023
British manufacturers use over a trillion chips a year. There is a chronic shortage, but the governemt has no strategy to deal with the crisis.
Why is immigration at record levels?
The never-ending rise in the number of people migrating to Britain provides the clearest evidence that Brexit is being hollowed out from within, including by people who appeared to be in favour of it…
Labour opened the doors wide
Before the Labour government under Tony Blair, immigration from the EU was substantial, but not overwhelming.
Migration: record inflow
More people are coming into Britain legally on work-related visas than before the Brexit agreements came into force.
Employers – no interest but their own [Updated]
The ruling class never misses a chance to undermine workers. Under the cloak of helping refugees, they can’t resist the opportunity for hiring cheap labour.
Abattoirs under attack
Britain has come to rely on an underclass of migrant abattoir workers. And we’re all paying the price…
Who’s counting? Not the government
Headlines about labour shortages don’t give the full story about migration – it’s a complex picture, obscured by a lack of facts. But the statistics are clearly out, by several million. What’s gone wrong?
Free movement? Come on in, says government
Listen to Home Secretary Priti Patel and other ministers and you might get the idea that the government is cracking down on all immigration, legal and illegal. But cheap labour is still being encouraged into Britain…
The ‘left’: fear and loathing of workers
16 January 2021
This useful book analyses and criticises the anti-working class attitudes of all too many in the labour movement.