“Abstention” ploy shocks Labour
An outcry from Labour’s grassroots and a threatened backbench rebellion dragged the leadership back from a disgraceful capitulation on the Tories’ Immigration Bill on 28 January. The Bill will end free movement for EU citizens and, rather than setting out the new regime of immigration controls, will hand over a blank cheque for Ministers to write the law themselves – so-called “Henry VIII” powers. December 2018’s White Paper indicated their intentions. This is a charter to serve the capitalist class, and to turn more migrants into a segregated, hyper-exploitable layer of workers stripped of...