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“We Refuse to Be Intimidated by Our University”: the King’s College Activists Fighting Back Against Racial Profiling
At a time of heightened racism, in the UK and globally, King’s College London (KCL) – an institute of higher education which claims to perpetuate values of justice and freedom – has decided to actively enforce a policy of racial and political profiling. Continue reading
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Brexit: Will Tories Risk an Election Corbyn Might Win?
A third defeat for Theresa May’s Brexit plan sets up April 12 as the drop-dead date for an unlikely agreement in Parliament, a second referendum, a hard Brexit, or a general election where Jeremy Corbyn will present a progressive vision for Brexit and the future – Leo Panitch joins Paul Jay Continue reading
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EXCLUSIVE: Ecuador Imprisons US Journalist In Room As Ambassador Tells Assange to ‘Shut up’ and Accept Spying
It was meant to be a routine visit by a journalist to another journalist. Instead, I found myself locked in a cold, surveilled room for over an hour by Ecuadorian officials, as a furious argument raged between the country’s ambassador and Julian Assange on Monday. Continue reading
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Brexit Has Ceased to be the “Will of the People”: Study By Jack Peat
National Centre for Social Research data found 55 per cent of Brits would vote Remain in a second referendum, with just six per cent of respondents saying they now think the UK will secure a good Brexit deal – a massive reduction from the 33 per cent who were optimistic about the outcome of negotiations when… Continue reading
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Britain’s mother of all crises By Rob Sewell
The Mother of Parliaments is now home to the mother of all crises. Brexit has tested the UK’s institutions and unwritten constitution to their limits. We are in uncharted waters – and in Theresa May’s case, in a rapidly sinking boat without a life vest. Continue reading
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UK Conservatives’ rampant Islamophobia and racism covered up by party tops, downplayed by media By Margot Miller
Ever since Jeremy Corbyn was elected as Labour Party leader in 2015, a hysterical witch-hunt against him and the wider left has been led by the Blairites, the media and the ruling Conservative Party equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. Continue reading
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Parliament rejects all alternatives as May’s offer to resign fails to stem Brexit crisis By Robert Stevens
Wednesday began with Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May informing her MPs that she will resign as party leader and prime minister if parliament passes the withdrawal deal she has agreed with the European Union (EU). It ended with a series of indicative votes on possible alternatives post-Brexit, none of which secured a majority. Continue reading
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Corbyn assailant jailed, but significance of his attack still minimised By Chris Marsden
The jailing of John Murphy for “common assault by beating” confirms the warning made by the Socialist Equality Party of the serious implications for the working class of the March 3 assault on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Continue reading
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In just two tweets Laura Kuenssberg blew the lid on dangerous Tory racism By Fréa Lockley
On 25 March, parliament voted to take back control of the ongoing Brexit chaos. Meanwhile, Laura Kuenssberg – the BBC‘s supposedly impartial political editor – sent out two tweets which some people felt betrayed dangerous casual racism. She reported that some hard-line Brexiteers ‘informally’ use the name ‘Grand Wizards’. This term has also been used… Continue reading
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Why Opposing Julian Assange’s Extradition to the U.S. Matters for London and the U.K
The Trump Administration has confirmed that the US government has charged WikiLeaks’ publisher Julian Assange and that it seeks his extradition from the UK. In the US, he faces life in prison. The case raises important issues for the London Assembly. Continue reading
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Will the UK continue to launch strikes against ISIS? by Chris Cole
When British MPs voted for resolutions supporting strikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, these had specific aims. Firstly, in 2014, strikes were authorised to aid Iraqi security and then in 2015, to eliminate ISIS’ safe haven in Syria. Now, more than four years later, Iraq has declared victory over ISIS, and the so-called ‘safe haven’ for… Continue reading
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The Conservative Party is incubating the racism behind New Zealand terror By Nafeez Ahmed
The massacre of 49 people including children at a mosque in New Zealand has not come out of the blue — it follows the mainstreaming of the same ideology that inspired the first major far-right terrorist attack of this decade: the 2011 massacre in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik. Continue reading
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“Brexit is a shambles—it will affect so many people in many ways”
Reporters for the World Socialist Web Site spoke to demonstrators at Saturday’s anti-Brexit protest in London. They explained the social and political concerns that brought them to support the demand for a second referendum. Continue reading
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Video: The Mysterious Death of Dr. David Kelly By Norman Baker and Richard Galustian
As we contemplate the 16th anniversary this week of the start of the Iraq war, we are forced to ponder on the insanity of that decision by the US and UK in anticipation very soon of a similar disaster developing, again no doubt for oil, this time though in Venezuela. Continue reading
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The Crimes against the People of Palestine: The British Government is “Shown to be Bankrupt in Law and Morality”
I wish you to bring these facts in front of Mr Hunt on behalf of Susan and myself, the Palestinian people who have no voice, and to reverse the ‘vortex of ever increasing violence in our world’. Canterbury, NZ where I worked, and homicide with knives etc are symbolic. HMGs of several colours have helped… Continue reading
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With a Hard Brexit Looming, UK Invites 10,000 Foreign Troops Over for Military Exercises
The U.K. government’s martial-law option for Brexit would allow government ministers to impose curfews and travel bans, confiscate private property, and deploy the armed forces to any U.K. location of their choosing. LONDON — As the drama over Brexit continues to reach new heights, the U.K. government has raised eyebrows by announcing that it will… Continue reading
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Brexit Britain – The planned stages of social change
By TruePublica: Whilst the far-right gains traction and their anarchic voices get louder, behind the scenes the dark forces that funds and promotes them are working to what documents reveal is a three-stage model of social change. What we are really witnessing through Brexit is the acceleration of a programme of economic regime change by… Continue reading
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Why you should be worried about police mass surveillance of shoppers
By Silki Carlo – Director of BigBrotherWatch: For the last six months, Greater Manchester Police have piggybacked onto the CCTV system of a private security company to secretly roll out live facial recognition technology. Continue reading
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Where do the interests of democracy lie? Working Group responds to UK minister’s attack on critics of the “Integrity Initiative” By Tim Hayward
In December 2018 we posted a briefing note on the Integrity Initiative, examining the documents that had appeared online about this ostensibly charitable programme funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Continue reading
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Welfare Weekly 17 March 2019
17 March 2019 — Welfare Weekly Universal Credit split payments given to only 20 claimants DWP ignoring the needs of vulnerable claimants at risk of domestic abuse, says SNP. Read more Continue reading
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