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Just coming up to speed about all of this. Aside from suspending a member of their National Executive - as the latest intricate move in the four-dimensional factional game-play that the party leadership enjoy so much - has Labour had anything to say officially about this issue? Perhaps the Shadow Home Secretary (whatever his name is) could enlighten us?
 
Leighsw2 said:
Just coming up to speed about all of this. Aside from suspending a member of their National Executive - as the latest intricate move in the four-dimensional factional game-play that the party leadership enjoy so much - has Labour had anything to say officially about this issue? Perhaps the Shadow Home Secretary (whatever his name is) could enlighten us?
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Can't imagine the LP leadership being really good at anything more complex than snap
 
Johnny Vodka said:
Christ, man, people actually trying to draw equivalence between this and the rioting by Rangers fans in Glasgow last night. No words. :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:
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See also pro-Palestine protests (e.g. why is this being singled out while it's okay for people to protest about something going on in another country?).
 
Something worth pointing out about Kenmure Street: it wasn’t a protest, it was direct action. It was necessary to physically prevent Immigration from taking the two men away in a dawn raid.

As a point of reference, I wouldn’t myself attend a protest during a pandemic. I did attend Kenmure Street because numbers were required to stop the van leaving. The more the better.

And when I got home, despite having no symptoms, I ordered lateral flow tests. And we were all masked the whole time.
 
Another write-up from Glasgow:
tribunemag.co.uk

How Glasgow Beat the Home Office

This week's standoff between Glasgow's Southside and the Home Office was an inspiring victory, but it wasn't spontaneous – it was the product of many years of organising against evictions and deportations.
tribunemag.co.uk tribunemag.co.uk
The skills, experience and confidence embedded deep by organisations like Living Rent and the No Evictions Network meant that despite the vicious response from Police Scotland, the protesters were able to outwit them at every turn:

Those on the ground remained flexible but co-ordinated, at one point there was at least five ‘fronts’ in the one street each responding to a strategic-points as police moved into move a car blocking a possible route the van could take out.
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This strategic advantage can be reinforced by the fact that until around 5pm, Police Scotland had been preparing to either kettle us or send the cavalry in, with mounted horses poised in the next street. Despite several vicious advances, they were unable to move us and had to retreat every time...

The Scottish Government’s bizarre attempt to relinquish any liability on the part of Police Scotland for either facilitating the removal of the men or the escalation of events was just not borne out by the facts on the ground. Contrary to what the First Minister said, Police Scotland were not in an ‘invidious position,’ some sort of innocuous force aiming to prevent public disorder or harm. They didn’t just assist in the man-handling of our neighbours, they pro-actively sought (but failed) to facilitate the Home Office in the removal, detention and likely deportation of two men who had members of our community for 10 years.

I personally witnessed Police Scotland officers violently throw peaceful protestors to the ground. They trampled on people sitting on the road trying to stop the removal of their neighbours. A few officers had claimed that they were just doing their job. But it is neither moral nor in many cases legal (as court challenges have shown) to remove people from their home for the ‘crime’ of not having filled-in the proper forms to ensure continued status to remain.
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Hmmm.
 
Another article about anti-raids organising from Freedom:
freedomnews.org.uk

Stopping immigration raids from Glasgow to London – the power of Direct Action - Freedom News

What happened in Kenmure Street, Glasgow on Eid al-Fitr 2021 was beautiful indeed. I don’t think many of us have seen anything quite like this: over a thousand people coming out to block an immigration raid, forcing Immigration Enforcement and police to back down and release their prisoners...
freedomnews.org.uk freedomnews.org.uk

I think I had seen this photo before, but always nice to see it again:
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Links to this older article, analysing a 2018 government report:
corporatewatch.org

Immigration raids: how direct action got UK’s ICE squads on the run - Corporate Watch

Immigration raids on people’s workplaces are one of the UK government’s main terror tactics against migrants. But in the last few years, they have also become one of the main battlegrounds where people are fighting back against the “hostile environment”. Corporate Watch has investigated how the...
corporatewatch.org corporatewatch.org
 
hitmouse said:
Another article about anti-raids organising from Freedom:
freedomnews.org.uk

Stopping immigration raids from Glasgow to London – the power of Direct Action - Freedom News

What happened in Kenmure Street, Glasgow on Eid al-Fitr 2021 was beautiful indeed. I don’t think many of us have seen anything quite like this: over a thousand people coming out to block an immigration raid, forcing Immigration Enforcement and police to back down and release their prisoners...
freedomnews.org.uk freedomnews.org.uk

I think I had seen this photo before, but always nice to see it again:
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Links to this older article, analysing a 2018 government report:
corporatewatch.org

Immigration raids: how direct action got UK’s ICE squads on the run - Corporate Watch

Immigration raids on people’s workplaces are one of the UK government’s main terror tactics against migrants. But in the last few years, they have also become one of the main battlegrounds where people are fighting back against the “hostile environment”. Corporate Watch has investigated how the...
corporatewatch.org corporatewatch.org
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It strikes me that the use of caltrops would be quite a handy and effective disruptor of these raids, in conjunction with everything else (large crowds, etc), at least for anyone willing to take the small risk of being busted for doing that. Or maybe just some strategically placed screws, which are better than nails, because they do more damage on the way in.

I did enjoy the section in that article about the effect on morale of these Immigration boot boys and girls. Good to hear that they're being made to feel like the pariahs they are, even by other government departments :D.
 
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