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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
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25 arrested as police shut down climate camp
In the early hours of Thursday 8 August, police stopped a convoy of vehicles carrying tents, compost toilets, wheelchair access ramps, and camping equipment that was headed to the planned Reclaim the Power camp near Drax power station. Everyone in the vehicles was arrested. Continue reading
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Russia offsets Ukraine’s Kursk offensive
Russian President Vladimir Putin has outwitted the West by his response to Ukraine’s Kursk offensive one month ago, which was widely celebrated as a tipping point in the conflict. The conflict is indeed at a tipping point today, but for an entirely different reason insofar as Russian forces seized the folly of Ukraine’s deployment of… Continue reading
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Jailed for speaking up and acting against genocide in the Gaza Strip
Pro-Palestinian voices, whether they be activists, journalists or social media influencers are being placed behind bars in the United Kingdom and even being accused of supporting terrorism, because they oppose the actions of the Israeli government towards the Palestinian people. Continue reading
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Welsh MP triggers police raid on Palestine campaigner
A South Wales activist who is facing charges including stalking, harassment and criminal damage has told Netpol she believes Pontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, now a junior minister in the Ministry of Justice, has weaponised the police and court system to intimidate her. Continue reading
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When will we stop falling for fabricated antisemitism scandals?
Reginald D Hunter is the latest target of pro-Israel provocateurs feigning victimhood. Time to bring down the curtain on this pantomime, says Rivkah Brown. Continue reading
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Shocking revelations about Sarah Wilkinson’s arrest and bail conditions
I’ve just watched an interview with Sarah Wilkinson on the Crispin Flintoff Show and it was disturbing to say the least. If you’ve read my recent newsletters, or been paying attention to social media, you will be aware Sarah Wilkinson is a pro-Palestinian journalist who was arrested in the UK under section 12 of the… Continue reading
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UK Journalist arrested for documenting Gaza genocide
Sarah Wilkinson, a British reporter and human rights activist, was taken into custody by UK police early on Thursday morning due to online posts she made about Palestine and denouncing the Israeli activities in Gaza, which she referred to as genocide. Continue reading
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Watch: Rules based repression
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss a wave of arrests of dissidents across the West, as well Pavel Durov’s repression. They will also cover Max’s coverage of the DNC 2024, Kamala’s first interview, Hezbollah’s retaliation against Israel, the continuing horror in Gaza, and Zelensky’s bid to extort more advanced weapons out of the US. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 