Sixty people braved the wind and rain to march from the Immigration Courts to the heart of the city centre, with banners demanding equal rights for all. Members of Unity handed out leaflets to the public informing them of the reality of asylum-seekers’ lives as the march chanted against dawn-raids and detention. A rally in St. Enoch square saw African and Algerian asylum-seekers address the crowd and the gathered public, decrying the criminalisation of asylum-seekers by the government and vowing that they would not accept deportations back to Turkey, Rwanda, the Congo, Algeria or any other country deemed ‘safe’ by Home Office bureaucrats. A comrade from the RCG spoke also, stating the real criminals were those British politicians and monopolists responsible for supporting the brutal occupation of Iraq, the genocidal civil war in the DRC and the fascist state in Turkey. He also urged Scottish people to unite with asylum-seekers in the struggle against poverty and racism. The demonstration finished with chants of ‘the Home Office is the real criminal!’ before the rain returned with vengeance and the protestors ran for cover, vowing to live and fight another day!