At long last the government's appalling treatment of asylum seekers is beginning to provoke serious criticisms. The voucher system demands that asylum seekers live on an income one third less than other claimants. Yet it is pretty well impossible to survive even on the "full' amount in new Labour's Britain. Then there is the further iniquity that shops operating the voucher system don't give change - a system with which which Oxfam have rightly refused to co-operate. it is excellent that other charities are increasingly backing them. The decision of Bill Morris, General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, to speak out against the racist implications of ministerial policies and pronouncements comes not a moment too soon.
Other trade unions, trade unionists, MPs and campaigners should add their weight to his calls. In particular support should be forthcoming for the demand of the London Socialist Alliance *that the TUC call a national demonstration to stop the scapegoating of asylum seekers. REFUCETS ARE NOT CRIMINALS IS ME Firkins Labour motement fourht lory raciet late: 1t': tume to march again pages 9-12 Putin's Enter the dragon, p16-17 HENCE: Occupy now to save Rover, pages 6-7 Washington protest rattles capitalists p13
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