The House of Lords, including Conservative peers (from the governing party), brought wrecking amendments to the illegal Migration Bill last week. Recent developments suggest some of its efforts are failing, but it will fight on. The force of the UK governments fascist-inspired efforts to remove political freedoms has advanced with the force of economic chaos facing the majority. Hence a government that has no interest in controlling the destructive profiteering of the private sector, while growing numbers of people lose access to the necessities of life, does all it can to elevate aristocratic rule, stimulate divisive nationalism, and intervene heavily in the movement of people. Yet as it accelerates, these market relations can only hold with authoritarian state intervention, repression, and more imposition of feudal relations. Paul Kagame’s Rwanda, with the complicity of Western media and international financial institutions, has been presented as a successful developmental state, but in reality it is a place of systematic state brutality.Ī MAJOR contradiction of free market capitalism is that, for all its ‘imperfections’, it is supposed to end feudalism, creating free circulation in the labour market and bringing political equality to people ruled by an impartial market. Asylum seekers, the court argued, risked being returned to their home country and could face inhumane treatment and persecution. ![]() ROAPE’s Hannah Cross writes that the UK government’s policy to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda has been ruled unlawful by the Court of Appeal. Photo: Activists in London participating in a protest against racism, holding a Care4Calais banner, an organisation which provides essential basics and legal support for asylum seekers in Belgium, France and the UK ( 19 March 2022).
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