Day: March 22, 2024

So who is George Galloway?

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12 March, 2024 — Craig Murray

[I’m not too impressed with George Galloway but I suppose beggars can’t be choosers? But maybe he’ll shake up the place a bit. We’ll see. WB]

The Panic Of the Ruling Class

I have known George Galloway my entire adult life, although we largely lost touch in the middle bit while I was off diplomating. I know George too well to mistake him for Jesus Christ, but he has been on the right side against appalling wars which the entire political class has cheer-led. His natural gifts of mellifluence and loquacity are unsurpassed, with an added talent for punchy phrase making.

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Anti-immigration election campaigning, extremism and the need to fight back

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Thursday, 21 March 2024 — Institute of Race Relations

Over the last weeks, we have witnessed stronger and extreme anti-immigrati policies mooted across Europe. In Portugal the far-right Chega party distributed leaflets campaigning against ‘uncontrolled Islamic Immigration’ in the lead up to its general election; Finland passed temporary legislation to allow border guards to block asylum seekers crossing from Russia; and both Germany and the European Commission are pushing for more ‘offshoring’ of asylum seekers. All this as the UK sees significant actions against the government’s controversial flagship Rwanda scheme.

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The West is Still Afraid of Black Haitians

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Friday, 22 March 2024 — Internationalist 360°

Jemima Pierre

Two demonstrators in front of the American Embassy in Haiti

At the beginning of March 2024, before the CELAC Heads of State meeting in Kingstown (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro denounced the new threats to the Haitian people: “We don’t agree with an invasion, whether open or camouflaged. The solution is for Latin America and the Caribbean to accompany, to help Haiti follow its own path and implement its own model, to rebuild its own state, its own institutions, and to resume all forms of cooperation such as the low-cost PetroCaribe oil program launched by Chávez”.

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