On the 7th of October 2006 a coalition of migrant groups, trade unions and social justice activists marched in London demanding equal rights for all. We were joining many others across Europe and Africa in an international effort to co-ordinate struggles and put forward a collective call for the regularisation of all migrants in the EU.

Since then other initiatives have appeared with related aims of improving the legal situation of migrants in this country. Religious groups and civil organisations have called for a National Day of Action and Celebration of Justice for Migrants on May 7th.

We call on those who took to the streets in October to come out again and in bigger numbers to march in a diverse gathering that will also see the participation of trade unions such as the TGWU.

However, we believe it is important to ensure that the fight for equal rights for all deals with the many aspects of the oppressive migration regime besides legal status. That is why we will march for:

Regularisation for all migrants. No one is illegal.

• The closure of all detention centres in Europe and everywhere, because migrating is not a crime.
• An end to all deportations and to the externalisation process which turns countries on the edges of the European Union (and beyond) into holding camps.
• Full labour rights for all workers, independently of their migration status. Stop the pitching of workers against each other.
• Social justice and security of livelihood for all - including the end of the government's policy of enforced destitution of asylum seekers.
• Official recognition of rape as torture and persecution. The current failure to do so results in the detention, enforced destitution and deportation of scores of female asylum seekers.

We see this march as part of a process of convergence and mobilisation that will carry on fighting for regularisation in the UK and Europe, coupled with union and social rights, and an end to deportations. This march is not an end in itself, but another step for migrants, their communities and other groups and organisations to come together to make demands, support each other, and intervene in the political debate. Be part of this process by attending