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NHS patients are forced to pay an Israeli-owned company to use its wheelchairs
Campaigners have condemned the fact that during a shortage of wheelchairs, patients are being forced to pay £2 an hour in order to use wheelchairs which they can unlock with their credit cards. Continue reading
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‘Part Of The Mechanism Of Genocide In Palestine’: The Complicity Of ‘Mainstream’ Media
Propaganda often works in subtle ways. Consider a BBC News headline on its website on 3 October: ‘Israeli air strike kills 18 people in occupied West Bank’ This was noteworthy in that, for once, the BBC had made it clear that Israel was responsible for killing people, rather than using a contorted form of wording… Continue reading
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This is how the British state is trying to crush the Palestine movement
Inspired by Netpol’s ‘In Our Millions’ report and featuring an interview with Netpol’s Kevin Blowe, Novara detail the impact that continually framing protests as potential sites of crime has on our right to freedom of assembly and freedom of expression. Continue reading
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‘In Our Millions’: a year of protest against genocide
The last year has brought devastation to many, and sparked one of the biggest waves of pro-Palestine campaigning the UK has ever seen. As the latest escalation shows, the fight is not over yet. Continue reading
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Protesting on campus: what students need to know
As a new academic term begins, the student movement is preparing for action on campus. Netpol’s new guide offers pracitcal advice and key information for student organisers Continue reading
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How ‘Israel’ lobby got Hezbollah banned in Britain: Declassified UK
A Thursday report by Declassified UK touched on Britain’s terrorism ban on all parts of Hezbollah, stressing that it came after intense lobbying by pro-“Israel” groups within Westminster, according to a former UK foreign minister and Tory peers. Continue reading
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It’s a free country, isn’t it?
The new report on ‘political violence and disruption’ in Britain is part of the ongoing ruling-class discussion over the best way to justify cutting off the ‘democratic rights’ Britons assume they have a right to enjoy, but which are increasingly being seen as a threat to imperialist rule: free speech, political organisation, peaceful protest and… Continue reading
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Keir Starmer faces renewed scrutiny over allegations he protected Jimmy Savile
As the UK’s new, MI6-aligned prime minister takes power, questions are resurfacing about how key files on infamous British pedophile Jimmy Savile disappeared under his watch. Continue reading
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The UK attempt to criminalise dissent on Palestine
The British state clearly wants to find a way to scare British citizens away from supporting the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to resist occupation by all available means, including by armed struggle. This is their right under international law. Continue reading
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Migrants Organise – Building Resilience in challenging times
The escalation of the far right has exposed the urgent need to build solidarity with migrant and refugee communities. When we are united in broad coalitions and movements we have the power to address structural issues. Continue reading
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British Intel’s ‘Counter-Disinfo’ War Goes Global
On September 13th, an extraordinary document was released via litigation against the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is an August 2021 slide deck presentation by Britain’s shadowy, spook-infested Counter Disinformation Unit to the White House National Security Council’s Interagency Policy Committee, which regularly gathers Washington’s spying services together to coordinate on national… Continue reading
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Complicity in Conflict: The UK’s Arms Exports to Israel
However, this move has been widely criticized as insufficient given the persistent Israeli war crimes in the West Bank and Gaza. Experts hold that a full arms embargo on Israel is mandatory to uphold international law, established by the United Nations (UN) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The United Kingdom and other NATO… Continue reading
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Jewish Chronicle scandal: Why was there no uproar over its long record of pro-Israel fake news?
Britain’s best-known Jewish newspaper has found itself thrust into the centre of an embarrassing and long-overdue storm over its involvement with the shadowy manoeuvrings of the pro-Israel lobby. Continue reading
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Aftermath of the riots
In this week’s Calendar of Racism and Resistance, we note the aftermath of August’s riots and the arrests and sentencing of the far-right agitators. The Commons Library report ‘Policing responses to the Summer 2024 riots’, which terms them ‘anti-immigration’, but fails to call them out as racist, shows that since 30 August, 1,280 people have… Continue reading
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Know Your Rights for Palestine Protesters
As we near the one-year anniversary of the genocide in Gaza, protests are being planned around the country. Many people are joining protests at the Labour Conference in Liverpool this weekend, and demonstrations are planned in towns and cities across the UK. Continue reading
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This ain’t no WWIII: this is a War OF Terror
First we had action: President Putin – cool, calm, collected – warns that any attack on Russia with long-range NATO missiles will be an act of war. Continue reading
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Lunacy in London, or Starmer’s Washington disaster
On Friday 13 September, I had a most peculiar experience. I was so astonished at what I was witnessing (and also what I was not witnessing) that I felt like uttering the celebrated words of Alice in Wonderland. Continue reading
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Raising the Stakes in Ukraine
Friday, 13 September 2024 — Internationalist 360° John Wight U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken boarding Ukraine-bound train in Poland on Tuesday. (Ben Dance / FCDO, Flickr, CC BY 2.0) The legendary Athenian historian and general, Thucydides, was a man who believed in the supposed verities of war and conflict… Continue reading
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Ukraine racing towards peace talks in a car with no driver, no breaks and a dead satnav
The admission was shocking. In an interview with an American journalist Victoria Nuland more or less admitted plainly that the reason why Boris Johnson was flown into Istanbul at the end of the peace talks between Ukraine and Russia was to scupper the deal, so that U.S. arms manufacturers could go ahead with their intended… Continue reading
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The Lies of Burns and Moore
On September 7, the British and American chiefs of their secret intelligence services, Richard Moore and William Burns, released an op-ed piece in the Financial Times, and on that day took part in a live talk hosted by the same journal. They had one common objective, to lie to their peoples and the world about… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 