“Genuine concerns about housing, jobs, living costs, security and the NHS are being hijacked by right-wing and fascist forces who will do nothing to improve the lives of working-class people”, Alex Gordon told the Communist Party’s Executive Committee on Sunday (14 September 2025).
He was speaking the day after after many thousands of ‘Unite the Kingdom’ demonstrators marched through central London led by Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (‘Tommy Robinson’) protesting against immigration and asylum-seekers.
But Mr Gordon warned that the event was part of a “sophisticated strategy using well-funded networks to link every major social and economic problem to incomers seeking, refuge and a decent life in Britain alongside their neighbours and workmates”. The world’s richest person, US and South African multi-billionaire Elon Musk, was among the guest speakers at Saturday’s anti-foreigner demonstration.
“Instead of uniting people against big business profiteering and rip-off landlords, the intention is stigmatise migrants, peddle a false patriotism and divide people along ethnic and religious lines”, the CP industrial organiser charged.
In particular, he attacked the policy of successive governments to concentrate large numbers of asylum seekers in state-funded, privately-run hostels and hotels, isolated from the community and easy targets for bigots. The former rail union president called for trade unionists and housing and anti-austerity campaigners to defend migrants under siege, offering aid and assistance where possible
“The main beneficiaries of government policy have been the hoteliers, three main corporate contractors – Clearsprings, Serco and the Mears Group – and slum landlords such as a notorious fascist in Brighton”, Mr Gordon accused. He urged a return to a community-based integration policy involving local authorities and housing associations, properly funded by central government.
Britain’s Communist Party also demanded speedier processing of current asylum claims and a safe system for migrants – especially unaccompanied children – to claim asylum while abroad or upon arrival, recognising that Britain has a legal and humanitarian duty to accept its fair share of refugees.
“This crisis cannot be separated from the Labour government’s failure to begin a massive public sector house-building programme”, the CP leadership declared.
Alex Gordon welcomed next Wednesday’s protest (September 17) by unions outside the Home Office in London, against new visa reforms that threaten the jobs of migrant workers in such vital sectors as social care, prisons and public transport.
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