• Tuesday 22 July 2025
• 10.30am – 4pm
• Manchester City Centre
• Book using the form below

The Labour Government has announced their intention to ramp up immigration enforcement. We think this means more raids, more detention and more deportations – and we need to be ready to protect ourselves from these acts of violence.

Since last year, Right to Remain has been visiting different parts of the UK – Birmingham, Nottingham, Sheffield and Newcastle – to explore what knowledge is needed in our communities, what radical solidarity could mean in this context and what we should be doing now to build our communities’ collective power.

We will be in Manchester on 22 July, partnering with GMIAU, to deliver another session on detention and enforcement, and what this means for our communities.

At this Solidarity Session, you will be learning about reporting and detention and thinking about how to build resistance against enforcement. We will be sharing what we have learned from acts of solidarity with people who are affected by the Hostile Environment, most recently our community member Fatou, who was detained for over two months and threatened with removal three times.

We want to use this opportunity to discuss deeply how we can be stronger together. We are still finalising the final programme, but we can promise plenty of time for connecting with others, interactive activities and time and space for asking questions and thinking.

The session will be facilitated by Right to Remain, These Walls Must Fall campaigners with lived-experience of the asylum and immigration system, and GMIAU. 

It will run from 10.30am to 4pm. We will let you know the event location (Manchester city centre) once your booking has been confirmed.