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Know Your Rights! Get trained up with Green and Black Cross
Tuesday, 23 May 2023 — NETPOL Our friends at Green and Black Cross are running a free Know Your Rights training on Wednesday 24 May 6pm – 9.30pm! A new Public Order Act (for England and Wales only) became law in early May, and parts of it are already in force. But as police powers Continue reading
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‘Truth, No Matter What’: Why Watering Down Palestinian Reality is a Crime
On February 20, the United Nations Security Council approved a statement, described in the media as a ‘watered-down’ version of an earlier draft resolution which would have demanded that Israel “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory.” Continue reading
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Ukraine: A war to end all wars in Europe
The dash for the White House in Washington on Friday by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz remains a riddle wrapped in a mystery. Scholz landed in DC, drove to the White House and was received by President Biden in Oval Office for a conversation that lasted over an hour. No aides were present. And he flew… Continue reading
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Entrenched Mentalities
It is always interesting to look back upon history if only to draw parallels with the present, and a review of British operations during the First World War caused the author to reflect upon mistakes made in the past and to compare them with the policies of today. This shorter article will examine the similarities… Continue reading
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Attacks on asylum housing: from Ireland to Knowsley
Thursday, 2 March 2023 — Institute of Race Relations Since our last newsletter in which we reported on the eruption of violence in Knowsley, Merseyside, we have seen the spreading of a relentless campaign targeting hotels accommodating asylum seekers across England, with protests in Rotherham, Skegness, Newquay, Long Eaton and Dunstable in the past weeks. Continue reading
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Openly pro-Israel Oracle now has control over UK’s most sensitive national security data!
Executives at the software giant Oracle have made it clear that they’re loyal to the settler-colonial government of Israel that’s occupying Palestinian land. They have also managed to win contracts that put Oracle in charge of sensitive data from the UK government. Continue reading
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Leaked Files Expose Britain’s Ambulances for Terrorists Conspiracy
On February 6th, Syria and Turkey were brutally rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, one of the most devastating recorded in the Levant’s history. Ever since, residents of these countries and the region more widely have been subjected to a particularly unforgiving – yet illuminating – crash course in Western double standards over humanitarian aid. Continue reading
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🚨LAST CHANCE – DEADLINE TOMORROW 🚨
Tuesday, 28 February 2023 LAST CHANCE – DEADLINE TOMORROW Keeping this short and sweet – The Digital ID they are proposing is a slippery slippery slope as they are bringing it in on the basis that they can add any types of data that they want to in the future. Furthermore it will be very Continue reading
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This is an urgent request!
We all need to respond to the government’s public consultation on digital Identity before the first of March 2023. Continue reading
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Shawcross, Knowsley and Policing Britishness
Just two days after William Shawcross, reviewer of the government’s Prevent Programme, criticised its ‘expansive approach’ towards the ‘extreme right’, it was supporters of the far Right, some armed with hammers, that orchestrated a riot, hurling lit fireworks at the Suites Hotel, Knowsley, Merseyside, which housed asylum seekers (Far-right leaflets claimed ‘5-star Hotels for Migrants… Continue reading
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New Tory chairman had a hand in £25m VIP Lane contract
We can reveal that the newly-appointed Conservative Party chairman, Greg Hands, helped Luxe Lifestyle Ltd, a company closely associated with the then Chair of his local constituency party, Mark Higton, land a £25m ‘VIP’ PPE deal. This is despite the company having no experience in providing protective equipment. Continue reading
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Out next week: Britannia Enchained
Next week, IRR News publishes parts one and two of Britannia Enchained, the latest four-part series examining the state of human rights in the UK, by IRR Vice-Chair and retired barrister Frances Webber. In the meantime, you can recap on last year’s Impunity Entrenched. Continue reading
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Air Partner: the Home Office’s little-known deportation fixer
Air Partner and Carlson Wagonlit are the grease spinning the wheels of the UK deportation machine, organising logistics for mass-deportation flights for years. Continue reading
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Keynes and the left
The ideas and theories of John Maynard Keynes still dominate the economic views and policy proposals of the leaders of the labour movement in the major capitalist economies. Keynes is seen as offering a ‘third way’ between the pro-capitalist ‘free market’ economics that dominates the universities (and among the strategic advisers of government) and the… Continue reading
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Ukrainian refugees too racist for liberal UK hosts
31 January 2023 — The Grayzone The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss a recent special by the UK’s Channel 4 showing British hosts of Ukrainian refugees complaining about their new guests’ fear and loathing of their Black and Muslim neighbors. Continue reading
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Kim Johnson row: Starmer is oiling Israel’s slide into fascism
What’s become all too clear over the past three years is that Labour leader Keir Starmer tolerates no criticism of Israel whatsoever – even when such criticism accords with international law, the verdict of the human rights community or just plain common sense. Continue reading
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UK: Ratcheting up the hostile environment
Thursday, 2 February 2023 — Institute of Race Relations This week, tough new rules came into force under the Nationality and Borders Act, potentially denying ‘foreign criminals’ sentenced to over 12 months access to modern slavery protections. At the same time, amendments made to the online safety bill will, if passed, lead to the criminalisation Continue reading
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Gov announces new Hostile Environment Taskforce – help us fight back!
Last week, the government announced the creation of a new Home Office taskforce that will attempt to expand Hostile Environment immigration policies. Continue reading
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Our right to dissent is under attack! It’s time to fight back!
The draconian Public Order Bill is due to enter its report stage in the House of Lords on Monday 30th January. The bill was already a vicious attack on our right to protest, but a new amendment has made it even worse. Last minute changes to the bill include loosening S12 and 14 of the… Continue reading
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