The background to our visit to the Jungle unofficial camp this summer was the news that the French authorities had decided in their wisdom to close all the shops and […]

I was also among those on the Birmingham convoy to Calais on the 18th June. For those of you who may not know, we arrived early thanks to the organisers

World Refugee Day in the Jungle in Calais, reports of the hot food distribution team getting teargassed near the main entrance and this video is showing people getting teargassed in

Finally home, feeling very sad that I have left behind so many people, I now call friends and comrades in that hell hole. Furious because the French state, (with the backing

  Lambeth Trade Unions – we managed to get through the border and the channel tunnel at Folkestone in our minibus full of clothes, shoes and donations for the refugee