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Sajid Javid’s bid to reduce migrants’ rights
SOLOMON HUGHES examines how the Home Secretary’s new regional pay thresholds plan would effectively create a system of ‘pass laws’ to further exploit migrants
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
HOME SECRETARY Sajid Javid is edging closer towards a nasty policy of regional work permits for migrants, which would use the “hostile environment” apparatus to push all new migrants into a legal status as second-class citizens.
The thing to grasp is that the real sting in post-Brexit government migration policy is not about “numbers” it is about rights.
The Tories claim that they want to leave the EU because they will have control of migration and be able to reduce “numbers” to satisfy anti-migrant feelings.
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