"At No To Hassockfield we remain steadfast in our campaign to end the cruel practice of detention. We urge all decent citizens to join us" | North East Bylines

🚨Join us on Wed 17 Sep on Zoom, from 10am – 12.30pm for our Knowledge is Power workshop. If you are supporting people seeking asylum navigate the system, or want to do so, this is a great intro session. 🚨 righttoremain.org.uk/17-september...

This was inevitably going to happen, wasn’t it? Close the hotels and the lEgiTiMaTe cOnCeRns become about asylum seekers living in actual houses. Because it was never about the hotels, as such. While the BBC listens attentively, nods vigorously and puts it at the top of its website.

🧨🧨Today, Sheffield sent the racists home!🧨🧨 300 antifacists gathered to prevent the far-right from harassing refugees. The few fascists who made it out of the house quickly dispersed after seeing our mobilisation. sheffieldcarf.org/2025/09/waitin…

Sheffield against the hotel botherers.

2010s: Tories want to look tough on migrants, so they vow to put them in military barracks 2020: Napier barracks opens 2021: Conditions at Napier strongly criticised as unsuitable for human beings Mar 2025: Closure of Napier announces. Sep 6th: Farage proposes using barracks: Today ...

🚨12pm This Saturday🚨 Sheffield S1 2AB Details TBA

Scrap the Surcharge! ❌ Borders in our health service take many forms: ▪️ The charging regulations, which see people charged up to 150% of the cost of secondary care ▪️ Identity checks ▪️ Data sharing between the NHS + Home Office And the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) 🧵

52 years after #Chile coup. This year's theme is the fight for Truth, Justice and Memory, a demand by the Chilean people for the heinous crimes committed following the coup in 1973 and during the 2019 social unrest. ✊Join us Sat 13th Sept 1pm @ Nursery Street Pocket Park Sheffield

Well, Yvette, maybe refugees are applying for family reunification as soon as they can because 1) they've spent ages waiting for status and miss their kids; 2) it takes ages for reunification applications to be approved; and 3) their kids are ineligible once they turn 18 www.gov.uk/government/s...

I wrote this with the aim that it would be a durable piece, relevant every time there's a flare-up of far right violence or as far right ideas make further advances into the mainstream. Hope people find it useful.

Regardless of whether Reform's deportation plan "works", if they get a chance to try it - like the Tories' Rwanda policy, or Trump's deportations - it will ostentatiously torment thousands of people and further engrain racism in British politics. It must be opposed on that basis.

Memorial Service to remember and celebrate the life of our comrade Dr. Pious H. Nyandoro 📅Saturday 30 August 🕝2.30-6pm 🏢The Sanctuary, Chapel Walk, Sheffield S1 2PD Please wear black or traditional Afrikan dress.

🚨 In a new article, Migrants Organise CEO Zrinka Bralo reminds us that we have always had alternatives to the current cruelty of asylum accommodation—but that these alternatives are being systemically erased from the story we are told. Read now: www.migrantsorganise.org/asylum-accom...

It was South Yorkshire's David Blunkett who as Home Secretary removed their right to work in 2003 and echoed Thatcher saying asylum seekers were "swamping" local services. BNP leader Griffin described Blunkett as "our best recruiting sergeant". 22 years on have Labour learned nothing?

Zoe Gardner: asylum seekers should be able to work while their claims are processed. Yes! It was the last Lab govt that removed their right to work, talked about bogus asylum seekers swamping our schools, introduced vouchers & opened Yarls Wood. And here we are #GMB

I have legitimate concerns about the way the mainstream media has been enabling the rise of the far-right through normalising racist and anti-immigrant narratives & discourse...

We urge our supporters to stand with Palestine, this Friday and every Friday 5pm at #Sheffield railway station. #StoptheGenocide #FreePalestine

We joined the huge and diverse Yorkshire March for Palestine in Sheffield at the weekend. Palestinians are repeatedly forced to migrate by the threat of genocide while UK Government arms apartheid Israel. #StopStarvingGaza #StopGenocide #FreePalestine nowthenmagazine.com/articles/yor...

My substack newsletter on the far right weaponisation of sexual violence: mattcarr.substack.com/p/beware-whi...

"The ethnicity of any perpetrator, or indeed their immigration status, is completely irrelevant" This family have endured the unimaginable, and then seen their pain weaponised for despicable political gain. They should be the ones our Government are listening to.

We're proud to be one of 200 organisations standing against those who seek to hijack the issue of violence against women and girls. #VAWG

Beyond Trafficking & Slavery: Interview I sought safety in the UK. I was sent to prison instead www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

Sad news that our comrade, Pious Nyandoro died recently We send love and strength to his family and community. Rest in Power Pious Our fight for justice goes on

Well, perhaps if the government allowed asylum seekers to work legally or allocated them more than £7 a day to live on, they wouldn't need to work illegally.

“Cleaning up” our high streets of migrant workers. AfD-level rhetoric, brought to you by the Labour Party

Our communities have always resisted racism from the state and on the streets. And when we organise together, we have the power to win. The government’s latest onslaught of racist policies and rhetoric is intended to sow fear, exhaustion and division. But they can’t stop a movement. 1/ ⬇️

This serves as a reminder that various companies are making lots of money via government contracts and have a financial incentive for things to not change. This also works for government as it diverts people's anger to a convenient scapegoat.

Heavens! It’s almost like the Home Office aren’t serious about reducing small boat crossings and letting people arrive safely!

🚨 The Government has confirmed that people have been detained under the new ‘one in, one out’ deal with France. This deal reduces people fleeing war and persecution to numbers in a political calculation. This is extremely concerning. www.bbc.com/news/article... 1/2

The violence & intimidation outside migrant accommodation isn't ‘local’ concern or ‘legitimate grievances’. This is a racist far-right movement encouraged by the government & media. We must go out & protect our communities. By @gferr1s.bsky.social & Sadaf Ahmed. www.bigissue.com/opinion/asyl...

Powerful image, part of Mukhtar Dar's Blacklash exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Blacklash documented the struggles of Asian and African Caribbean communities against racism. #StopDeportations

Providing safe routes to reach the UK is the only logical, evidence-based way to stop people travelling through irregular means. Last night Ben Kentish challenged me on @lbc.co.uk on how that would work & whether A MILLION BILLION PEOPLE might come😱 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al4R...

🔥 Join us for our next Radical Solidarity Hub meeting on Tuesday 12 August, 1pm – 2pm, on Zoom. 🔥 We will focus on how we can ensure our communities, and each other’s, safety during a time of heightened violence and hatred from far-right groups. More info ⬇️ righttoremain.org.uk/radical-soli...

🍉Make some noise for Palestine🍉 #StopStarvingGaza #StopGenocide Friday 1st August 5pm Sheffield Railway Station

Let's make this big. October 18. Save the date. #DignityNotDetention @right-to-remain.bsky.social

Big and noisy pots and pans protest tonight against Gaza genocide and starvation at Sheffield train station. Demonstrate your grief, rage and determination tomorrow for a silent protest. #FreePalestine

Or just #LiftTheBan and allow people seeking asylum to work

1/6 Today’s refugees need the opportunities I had thelead.uk/todays-refug...

Reminder: no one wants to work a 15 hour Deliveroo shift for less than minimum wage. People are forced into exploitative work because they're BANNED from working legally - and there's one very obvious way to fix that. www.bigissue.com/opinion/work...

Important session in Manchester on Tuesday! 👇 tinyurl.com/bdesxzun @thesewallsmustfall.bsky.social, @right-to-remain.bsky.social & @gmiau.bsky.social are running this session on detention and enforcement, and what this means for our communities. 1/

ICE attempted to enter the home of a woman with her children in Huntington Beach. However, the entire community, police department, and city council intervened and forced them to leave. Keep fighting back ✊🏽

🌍 For more than 99% of human history, people moved freely. Now? Borders, barbed wire & bureaucracy stop people from doing so. Our new animation traces how colonialism created the global border regime—& who profits from it today. 📽️ Watch now & share: youtu.be/gotB7Ethvrs?...

1/🧵 @manchestereveningnews.co.uk has published a dedicated article based on our new report: “This system destroys you”: Children trapped in adult asylum hotels by the Home Office. This report is a call for change - and we’re grateful to the MEN for helping it reach more people. 👏

🚀NEW! Relationships are the foundation of our movements. But as anti-migrant policies and rhetoric seek to divide us, how do we stay energised and connected? We're excited to share 'Communities of Solidarity'- a film resource for building solidarity, power & hope ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBeP...

It's not complicated: refuse people safe routes, they'll travel dangerously. When people travel dangerously more die, more are traumatised. @zoejardiniere.bsky.social is spot on here: years of eroding rights in the name of deterrence hasn't worked yet: it's time to try something new.

Remember back in 2022 when we had a demented & useless Home Secretary in Priti Patel who wanted to deploy jet skis to catch migrants in the Channel in nets? LOL so good that the grown ups are in charge now, right? ... Right @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social? What an utter sick joke.

The only thing delivery bikes outside hotels prove is that the ban on work for asylum seekers must end, says charity Asylum Matters.

Quit blaming people with disabilities and people forced to migrate @uklabour.bsky.social #takingthePIP #WelfareNotWarfare