West Midlands compaigners held a picket and soup kitchen to highlight the effect of the withdrawal of asylum seekers' social security. Held near a DS office, staff and claimants were told not to approach pickets Build February 24 anti-racist demo OPPOSITION to the Tories' Immigration and Asylum Bill is growing.
Already thousands of people have participated in protests and got involved with the Campaign Against the Immigration and Asylum Bill.
The bill requires that employers carry out checks for "illegal immigrants'. The government is also trying to cut off benefits.
The TUC is supporting the demonstration called by the campaign. It is important that very vocal. the labour movement is mobilised around the issue.
The Labour Party has also come out against the bill. Unfortunately it is not being Everything must be done to maximise the protest. The current Tory crisis means that this bill could help bring down the government.
The February 24 demonstration must be built as widely as possible.
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