Hannah Lewis

Shabana Mahmood's proposal to stop being told to "go back home" is to send people "home". Her proposal to stop black and brown people from feeling like they don't belong, is to bake in to the immigration system that they will never belong.

Home Office post with a black background and the words Access to benefits restricted to British (with a union flag as the texture for the word "British") Citizens in all caps bold font

Home Office: How dare people say we are acting like the far-right?

Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.

Destitute by design: trapped in the immigration system Migration policy is not only failing people forced to arrive in Britain by boats. In an extract from a new edited volume, Daniel Trilling reports on t...

In 2023 @tom-clark.bsky.social got me to write a chapter for his book on UK poverty about how immigration limbo, which Labour wants more of, makes people destitute. It was the most distressing piece I've ever worked on. We sent a copy to every MP. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/6081...

Thank you Lloyd, welcome ✌️🌲🌈☀️

WELCOMING LLOYD RUSSELL-MOYLE FORMER MP, BRIGHTON KEMPTOWN Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Welcome to the Green Party, former Labour and Co-operative MP for Brighton Kemptown, @russell-moyle.co.uk 💚

Exclusive: Ex Labour MP to defect to the Green Party Lloyd Russell-Moyle will announce his defection tomorrow

Former Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle is defecting to the Green Party

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A UCU official dispute sign in a planter, bathed in sunshine

Colder today, but the sun is out! @sheffielducu.bsky.social

#PalestineSolidarity roving picket visiting the excellent picket at Firth Court. #UCUstrike @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucuhallam.bsky.social #sheffield

😥 RIP. The irony for me is that the most probable site of transmission was a packed out union branch GM early March 2020. Of course, had the uni been locked down, we wouldn't have been on pickets, either. Almost turning a corner out of long COVID now, 5.5 years later.🤞

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Final argument... seems optimistic the way things are going 😥. Never a dull day for escalation of violence in the name of humanitarian borders, it seems. 💔

Day 3 Sheffield Uni UCU strike against threat of extensive redundancies. 400 academic staff gone. Nearly 100 more now confirmed. They want another £10m staff saving this year, despite being in a strong position financially. #SheffieldUCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...

JOINT RALLY ANNOUNCEMENT:
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.

Mass strikes to hit University of Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam in November and December over job cuts A combined 28 days of strike action will hit the city of Sheffield over the next two months in rows over job cuts at Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam universities, UCU announced today.

Heading to picket line for day 1 of @sheffielducu.bsky.social strike against compulsory job losses ✊✊🏼✊🏾 www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...

Heartbroken to be on strike (again) - never an easy decision 👍 We cannot accept a university in which staff jobs, student education, and research progress are under threat by major (and financially unnecessary) change management processes. @sheffielducu.bsky.social #Sheffield #DigitalPicket

On strike again to fight back against the relentless pursuit of damaging cuts and restructures by the appalling management at @sheffielduni.bsky.social We won't stand idly by while they continue to drive this institution into the ground! @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Staff at University of Sheffield begin strike action Staff at the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University are taking part in strikes.

Day 2! People out in force on the picket lines 🙌 Nice to see a relatively active #DigitalPicket too @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Exactly this. The expansion of immigration policies creating permanent temporariness is known the world over to create fresh opportunities for unscrupulous employers to exploit and abuse workers ➡️

Thank you Ellie

It's a terrible precedent, and even more so that the world is largely silent, as it's always been about Western Sahara, and there is little attention to the profound implications. Even the BBC has covered the UN abandonment as achieving 'Moroccan unity' 😡

Here's me with the then UJSARIO (youth) leader Beisat, 1996. I carried a message of solidarity & support for a free Western Sahara from UK youth. It is a deep pain to imagine explaining to our 20 year-old selves that the world has abandoned international law to fawn to a Trump Riviera pipe dream 6/

The Reception this evening was meant to honour the visit of Polisario Foreign Secretary Mohamed Beisat, but he was called away this morning to the 'Moroccan Autonomy' planning. Yes, that's right. Countries like Denmark, Greece. Somalia voted in hope of 'good faith' from Morocco with no promises. 5/

'We need to return to international diplomacy ruled by law, not force'
EU Polisario rep Omar Mansour movingly described how, following the UK's capitulation, the UN Security Council voted in favour of 'the Moroccan Autonomy Plan' 2 weeks ago-despite there being NO actual plan. 3 voted against. 4/

Why would David Lammy sell out the last remaining colony in Africa, a non-self governing state whose right to a free & fair referendum has been continuously frustrated by settler-colonisers' Moroccan Royal rule? Under US influence and for football World Cup contracts, it would seem...3/

To it's shame, this Labour government Foreign & Commonwealth Office stealthily shifted a long-standing in UK commitment to self-determination of Western Saharans to one of support for 'Moroccan Autonomy' in June 2025. Polisario rep pointed out UK Labour has been a friend of the party since 80s...2/

Great to see some of the giants of the UK solidarity movement's long fight for freedom of Western Sahara at the Houses of Parliament reception to mark the 50th anniversary of the conflict. Thanks to Ben Lake MP (PC, Preseli) for hosting, and to EU Polisario Rep Omar Mansour for a powerful speech 🧵

Only the people of Western Sahara should decide their future. It is their inalienable right to self-determination that is inscribed in the UN Charter and international law. This sets an extremely dangerous precedent.

Today it is the Saharawis, tomorrow it could be you After a 50 year stalemate, the UN Security Council has backed Moroccan autonomy over Western Sahara. Najla Mohamed-Lamin reflects on the need for global unity and resistance.

'The Saharawi struggle is not unique. It is the struggle of all colonized people'

After a 50 year stalemate, the UN Security Council has backed Moroccan autonomy over Western Sahara. Najla Mohamed-Lamin reflects on the need for global unity and resistance.

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"Libertad para el Sahara Occidental" ✊🏼

TODAY! Sheffield, come on down for a whole day of solidarity teach in/teach out drop-ins. @assistsheffield.bsky.social @symaag.bsky.social @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social