Liberties
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Tim Black: An intolerable attack on all of us, the people
The arrest of Damian Green is an historic insult against parliamentary sovereignty, and ultimately against us, the people. The police should retreat immediately. And parliament should seek to rediscover the sense of democratic purpose that once saw it clash with kings and lords in its defence of the people’s rights. Continue reading
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URGENT APPEAL FROM MENEZES FAMILY TO SUPPORTERS
I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the support you have given our family over the last 3 ½ years. We have been humbled by your support and on days like today, knowing that you are behind us, gives us the strength to carry on. Today was an… Continue reading
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Judge rules that the jury in the Charles de Menezes murder cannot consider the killing as unlawful
Coroner at the inquest into the police shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes has ruled that the jury cannot consider the verdict of unlawful killing. Instead he has ruled that they can only return a verdict of lawful or open. Continue reading
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Tom Burghardt: Preemptive Policing & the National Security State: Repressing Dissent at the Republican National Convention
19 November 19, 2008 Global Research Antifascist Calling… With “preemptive policing” all the rage in Washington, the whistleblowing website Wikileaks has done it again, exposing how repressive trends in the U.S. had real world consequences for democracy during September’s Republican National Convention (RNC) in St. Paul, Minnesota. On November 15, the global whistleblowers published a Continue reading
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Mick Hume: It should not be an offence to belong to the BNP
This confirms the misplaced political obsession with the BNP, and the peculiar place that this small far-right party occupies in public life today. Many of those who were outraged by the authorities’ loss of disks containing personal data seem almost gleeful about the way that this leak has ‘exposed’ the BNP’s membership. Continue reading
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WIKILEAKS: NOTABLE DOCUMENT RELEASE ON THE BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY
WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE (English) For Immediate Release. Fri Nov 21 09:11:21 2008 GMT “BNP leak rocks Britain” The leak of details on the 12,801 secret members and contacts of the far-right British National Party continues to rock British politics, with over 1,315 English press articles appearing since Tuesday: news.google.ca/news?ie=UTF-8&tab=bn&ncl=1271913659&hl=en In the 24 hour period between Continue reading
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Fighting The War On Terror In London – One Gig At A Time
Since the end of last year the Metropolitan police in London have powers to close down any live music event where they have not been given the personal details including addresses and phone numbers of all performers involved at least two weeks in advance. Continue reading
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Freedom of Speech: Where do Muslims Stand?
Where should Muslims stand on free speech? Are they too sensitive to criticism? Or are they simply opposing what they see as the desecration of their revered personalities? How do Muslims explain to essentially secular societies their sense of the sacred? How is it possible to reconcile these two principles – the love for free… Continue reading
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Campaign Against the Booze Bans
We believe public space should be exactly that – a place where we can come together as a public – to argue and campaign, to pursue our common goals, to chat with friends and socialise. It is a space in which we, the public, should set the rules. Continue reading
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THE ALTERNATIVE CONSULTATION ON EU JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS POLICY
Please take a few moments to complete the survey and have your say on EU justice and home affairs policy: Continue reading
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Russian millionaire thug forces Web hosting company to pull the plug on Craig Murray
Craig Murray, former British ambassador to ‘rogue state’ Uzbekistan who blew the gaff on torture has under pressure from millionaire Uzbeki Alisher Usmanov, had his Website shutdown. “Craig Murray, former United Kingdom Ambassador to Uzbekistan, author of the book, Murder in Samarkand: A British Ambassador’s Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror, and Continue reading
The New Dark Age 