A PRESS CONFERENCE and a lobby of Parliament were held on April 29 by the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns, as the "New" Labour government digs in to defend the racist laws of its Tory predecessors.
Among those on the platform of the press conference were Abdul Onibiyo - a victim of deportation under the Tories whose genuine status as a political refugee was belatedly recognised after a bitter campaign- and Bayo Omiyiola, a Liverpool City Council housing officer who also faced deportation to Nigeria.
The lobby was supported by a number of campaigns, but still needs much stronger backing from the wider labour and trade union movement to force a change in government policies. Labour's NEC election