No Borders London: who we are what we do

NO BORDERS LONDON

What do we believe?

People are on the move around the world. In response to the globalisation of capitalist relations that bring poverty, starvation and war; in response to the world getting smaller; in response to the adverse affects of climate change, in response to our needs.

The attempts by states to control the movement of people leads only to criminalisation, apartheid and death. People are divided into those with and without documents, workers divided into those with and without rights, and countries divided into a strict hierarchy of wealth. Thousands die as they try to cross borders, as the conditions of detention become unbearable or as the threat of return to unbearable conditions get closer. Selective inclusion and ‘illegality’ are methods to divide and control us all. No One Is Illegal!

We support FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT and the RIGHT TO REMAIN for all

Migrants are not victims to be pitied, but a movement of strength that is escaping from the global practices of capture and control, even if to be confronted by new controls. It is the vital space where a post-national anti-capitalist politics is articulated. The precarious nature of migrants‘ lives is an example of how the bosses of the world would like to make the vast majority of us. Their struggles are those that we will all have to take up for ourselves too.

No Borders London support all those in struggle against borders, against their incarceration in detention centres, against their deportation, against their super-exploitation as ‘illegal’ workers. We work to develop spaces of solidarity where resistance and life can be developed

London is a global city with a fantastic history of migration and struggle. No Borders London calls for a continuation of this politics and life, against a politics of division between the settled and the latest migrants.

We support the call from the European Social Forum in Athens for common actions in support of these struggles.

What do we do?

The No Borders London Network has organised demonstrations outside the capital’s detention centres, including outside Harmondsworth in April 2006 and February 2007. It has held pickets outside Communication House reporting centre on Old Street, EC1. It has also held pickets of the London HQ of Kalyx, the private company which runs Harmondsworth.

No Borders London is committed to the transnational organisation of migrant and refugee struggles. It was involved in organising for the Third Day of International Action for Migrant Rights in October 2006, including a demonstration in South London which passed Becket House reporting centre. No Borders London Detainee Support Group, part of the No Borders London Network, provides practical support to refugees and migrants in detention and/or those threatened with deportation, and works to empower their struggles inside and outside detention centres.

No Borders London actively supports migrant labour struggles for employment and social rights, including the “Justice for Cleaners” campaign on the London tube and in the City of London.

No Borders London is committed to deepening public debate about immigration, particularly among those individuals and communities directly affected, and to developing a No Borders perspective on issues such as regularisation.