goes with the (relatively new) system of benefits - for asylum vouchers poverty level with the constant stream of "scandal" sto. rics and the foca or "Britain as the soft touch - both all too promoted by government This is the politics of deliberate as most asylum seckers are black institutionalised racism. And it comes from a government whose There it secks an end to both social prisons/centres: RACISM hunger the cast, and in Italy to the destruction of centres. Last DEVICSI year migrant support groups have been many protests by detainees in the set up solidarity camps verbal the Germany's castern borPopular revulsion at the escalation in detentions has been greatest in Italy. Two ago protesters forced the closure of a newly opened detention centre at Trieste.
Last month following the burning death of lour relugees refugee prison in Sicily; later the closure of the new deten.
Milan announced (a "better" one will replace it).
is a great deal of resistance - most of it unreported - inside the detention centres and by supporters outside In Britain there is a bir need for more local camclose House (Garwick Rochester prison's and the centres Aldington Lindholm, alongside Campsfield, Harmondsworth and Oakington MPs strikes, cravenly support the unsupportable: barely a handful of Labour MPs voted against last year's Immigration and The chair of the House of detention. But given that the developdriven by European Union member-states interior ministers conferring al were meetings - resistance needs CO0C HC 000080 UH a European scale also.
in a The demand of the conferzions held in Fernay Voltaire, in 1998, that there should be a debate on detenthe European been heeded. And the MEPs should not let mimisters get away with tact international conference to combat immigration Tinsley detention is currently being airport), "deten- Close Campsfield. It is to be held in Oxford in September.
and the Useful COSE contacts:
• Campaign to Close still 558145/557282/726804 • Cambridge Against appalling Refugee Detention 01223 462187/07957 558612 • Close Harmondsworth Campaign 0181 571 5019