Revolutionary Communist Group
Red Road Flats, Glasgow: No Suspicous circumstances?
On the morning of Sunday 7 March, the bodies of Serge Serykh and his wife and stepson were found at the bottom of a 30-storey tower block on Petershill Road, north Glasgow, used by the YMCA to house asylum seekers. The Russian family had apparently committed suicide by throwing themselves off the 15th floor balcony. Since the deaths were announced, the police and the BBC have repeated like a mantra that there were ‘no suspicious circumstances’. But there clearly are ‘suspicious circumstances’ surrounding these tragic deaths, and the prime suspects are the British Labour government and its punitive immigration policies.
Neighbours told Unity (the asylum seeker support group) that Strathclyde police visited the family’s flat last Friday to tell them their asylum application had been refused and that they would be evicted. Generally, the police only come to the door of refused asylum seekers at the request of the landlord after the family have refused to leave. The landlord in this case, the YMCA, has a history in
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Labour's privatisation plans: bad for our health / 27 February 2010
On Saturday 27 February London FRFI joined the march to stop the closure of the A&E department at Whittington Hospital, North London.
FRFI supporters formed a lively contingent at the back of the march and chanted all the way from Highbury Corner, along the Holloway Road to the Hospital in Archway. Around 2,000 people marched, shoppers and pedestrians stopped and some joined in, drivers hooted in support and there was that uplifting feeling of strength of a campaign that involves everyone, from babies to pensioners, from doctors and nurses to patients and relatives, and all local residents.
Read more: Labour's privatisation plans: bad for our health / 27 February 2010
Edinburgh: Scottish Defence League routed
On 20 February, Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! supporters joined hundreds of people in The Real Bolivarian Youth
From International Media reports and hysterical blogs on the internet, you could be forgiven for thinking that all the students in Venezuela are engaged in a struggle for free speech and against repression from the Chavez “dictatorship”. However, last Friday 12 February, in celebration of “the Day of Youth” tens of thousands of revolutionary students marched in support of the Bolivarian Revolution with a new focus on campaigning for the National Assembly elections this September.
The 10km march departed from the
Ireland: agreement over policing reached

SWP tells us to vote for imperialism, war, racism and repression
Let us be absolutely clear. A vote for Labour is:
- a vote for British imperialism and the City of London.
- a vote for more wars.
- a vote for state racism: attacks on asylum seekers and immigrants, racist policing and racism in prisons.
- a vote for more repressive laws to add to the legion the Labour Government has passed since 1997.
- a vote for more privatisation of the NHS and education at the expense of the quality of provision for working class people and for savage cuts in public spending.
Yet the Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP), which has the nerve to call itself revolutionary, is telling us to vote Labour at the forthcoming general election. Socialist Worker (13 February 2010) reports that the SWP’s National Committee has agreed that ‘we will…vote Labour against the Tories where there is no serious left of Labour candidate.’
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Close Yarl’s Wood and all immigration prisons! Support the protesting detainees!
Over 80 women detained in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre in Bedfordshire have been staging a hunger strike since 5 February in protest at their continued detention and treatment. On 8 February private company Serco, which runs Yarl’s Wood, tried to end the protest by force, but the women have continued to stand firm and 50 remain on hunger strike. The UK Borders Agency has issued several statements claiming the protest is over, but despite brutal reprisals and the removal of some women to criminal prisons, the protest continues.
Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! opposes all immigration detention and stands in total solidarity with the Yarl’s Wood protesters. We reproduce in full a statement from protesting detainee Mojirola Daniels, circulated by the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns
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Editorial & Welcome
Red Road Flats, Glasgow: No Suspicous circumstances?
On the morning of Sunday 7 March, the bodies of Serge Serykh and his wife and stepson were found at the bottom of a 30-storey tower block on Petershill Road, north Glasgow, used by the YMCA to house...
Read More...SWP tells us to vote for imperialism, war, racism and repression
Let us be absolutely clear. A vote for Labour is: a vote for British imperialism and the City of London. a vote for more wars. a vote for state racism: attacks on asylum seekers and immigrants,...
Read More...Close Yarl’s Wood and all immigration prisons! Support the protesting detainees!
Over 80 women detained in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre in Bedfordshire have been staging a hunger strike since 5 February in protest at their continued detention and treatment. On 8 February...
Read More...End detention of children!
‘My three year old daughter realised we were locked in a prison. She would point at the window and say “out, out”. Even if they improved conditions inside, they still won’t get rid of this negative...
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Monthly readers and supporters group Discussion of FRFI articles Contact us for details of reading material and venue. For further details,...
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Picket of Communications House Old Street Every first Tuesday of the month! Tuesday 2 February 2010 1-2pm Fight Labour’s racist immigration...
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Picket of Marks & Spencer Every Thursday 6-8pm Picket of Marks & Spencer, Marble Arch end of Oxford Street - click here...
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