One of our (rain-soaked!) organisers on the open mic yday at #ShutManstonDown.
Pilots and stewards refusing to take off have halted hundreds of deportations. @pcs_union is considering strikes against maritime pushbacks. Organised workers have the power to stop border violence.
And the labour movement has real solutions to the deprivation & alienation that the politics of xenophobia feed off.
Workers from Amazon to the NHS are showing now that the real way to win higher wages and better prospects is to #BuildUnionsNotBorders. (Keir Starmer take note.)
The 1905 Aliens Act was not only Britain's first modern immigration control and a piece of gross antisemitic violence.
It was also, sadly, an early e.g. of the mainstream trade unions being led astray by xenophobic scapegoating.