The toxicity borne out of the growing and deepening crises of global capitalism continue to play-out amongst the Tories in Brexit Britain. This level of toxicity sees the strange situation whereby Black and Brown leading Tories in government are the promoters of this new fascism but also its targets especially in the instance of Rishi Sunak. Indian East African heritage Suella Braverman as Home Secretary attempts to shore up her own flimsy position by whipping-up the worst of Brit racism and racists and its support to her weaponisation of newly arrived migrants supported by Brit Prime Minister and Indian heritage Rishi Sunak who himself is the target of growing Tory and right-wing grassroots attacks as being a 'globalist' and for 'blocking Boris' return'. The constantly deepening war on migrants in Britain took a massive jump forward with the victory of the Brexit vote that opened-up a higher intensity of constant far-right racist anti-migrant media propaganda that has inspired the racist attack on a immigration processing centre last Sunday October 30th in Dover and the inhumane conditions at Manston processing centre.
Braverman's position as Home Sec is constantly on the verge of total collapse following shortly after her messy demise as Home Sec for 41 days under the most farcical Prime Ministerial rule of Liz Truss. Braverman seems utterly desperate to use the far right-wing culture war of using the most oppressed people in our society - newly arrived immigrant families who have come via small boats across the Channel - to agitate mass support from the Tory and general far-right to attempt to perpetuate her political position as Home Sec. Braverman seems utterly desperate in trying to hold-on to her position and seems to rely purely on whipping up fascist fervour against migrants to enable herself which involved claiming there is an 'invasion' of England's shores by migrants. Using the term 'invasion' on the beaches of England seeks to plug into the mass racist nationalism harking back to the British war with Germany which the latter tried unsuccessfully to invade Britain.
The concept of 'invasion' of migrants also skews the reality of the fact that the problem is the vicious anti-working class system that attacks us all rather than still relatively small numbers of people entering into this country. A basic position of humanity informs us that the British state is involved in a collective neo-colonialism around the world that continues to loot the wealth of labour and land and in this devastation some people refuse to be subjected to super-exploitation in the global south and instead decide to follow the looters to their own base being the 'West'. Migration is perhaps the central political issue of our times which is in the context of the fact that the world is dominated by western imperialism and its partners. Anyone who isn't a basic racist scumbag stands with the oppressed and their right to enter the colonial centre in a safe and supported manner. Any position against migrants means tying oneself to the pole of imperialist oppression and looting in a period of growing global fascism.
The racist attacker against the immigration processing centre in Dover was a 66yr old white man from 100 miles away in man in High Wycombe and the attacker has reportedly been investigated for child sex offences and threatened to kill himself while being questioned by police. The attacker committed suicide in a nearby garage after his attack on the immigration processing centre. The actual act of racist firebombing of an immigration centre is inspired directly out of the growing racist atmosphere and hysteria that the Tory leadership are committed to continuing to scapegoat migrant communities and attempt to divide people and distract from the growing working class anger around the cost of living crisis.
The Tories have an open racist policy of 'hostile environment' for migrants as official policy since 2010 which is a kind of preemptive racist terror to deter people trying to even come here. Of course this isn't going to work as nearly everyone coming here is not going to be put off by any of the Tory actions against migrants. The most vicious elements of these racist policies are the attack on the Windrush migrants from the Caribbean, the threat to permanently expel migrants to Rwanda and running down immigration detention centres like the Napier army barracks and the outbreak of disease and massive overcrowding at Manston, which even chief inspector of prisons in Britain says the conditions there are unacceptable.
These are openly fascist policies being promoted proudly by the Tories, but they, like so many other growing oppressions in our society, are not being countered by movements of people in protest. The left is failing to mobilise people against this despite some positive grassroots spontaneous actions in Kenmure Street, Glasgow last year and a few incidents in London which all resist attempts by the Home Office to kidnap people they deem 'illegal'. The direct action movement of Just Stop Oil shows that there are people willing to take risks from the left against the state, it's just that we don't have what we should have in a similar waves of people willing to disrupt and confront growing Tory fascism on issues such as the attacks on migrants and racist police brutality. The Tory weaponsation of migrants is being used as fascism always does for the most rapacious elements of the rich to attack and control us further so they can amass more wealth and power. Although largely absent at present, resistance on all levels is needed urgently to scupper their oppressive plans.
