UK
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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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How British Intelligence Sabotaged Cambridge Analytica Scandal
MintPress News can reveal the existence of a secret British intelligence network that fed top journalists and the world lies and misinformation about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, thereby amping up tensions with Russia and paving the way for World War Three. Continue reading
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Breaking the ‘colour bar’: Len Johnson & Pearl Prescod
Not only has PC David Carrick pleaded guilty to 49 charges, including 24 counts of rape against 12 women over an 18-year period, but FOI requests have revealed that more than 150 Met police officers are currently on restricted duties and under investigation over allegations of racism and sexual misconduct. Cases of police racism and… Continue reading
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Why we oppose today’s planned UK space launch
Tonight’s planned space launch from Newquay ‘spaceport’ is the latest step in a new era of expansion into space by the military with the UK wholeheartedly joining a space arms race which will inevitably lead to greater risk of instability and conflict. Continue reading
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Key US Allies Collaborate On Espionage Laws Considered Harmful To Whistleblowers And Journalists
Ministers and security officials in Australia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom have coordinated with the United States to develop new espionage laws. Continue reading
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British-run spy tech powers Ukraine proxy war, putting civilians at risk
Leaked files reveal the Anomaly 6 spy firm is providing intelligence to the British military through a cut-out involved in the Kerch Bridge bombing and other acts of dangerous sabotage in the Ukraine conflict. Continue reading
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Review of 2022: the year it became okay to jail protesters in Britain
It has not been a good year for our right to dissent. The vehemently resisted Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Act came into force in the summer, while the government continues to push through its Public Order Bill, aimed at criminalising our right to protest even further. The National Security Bill also includes even more measures to restrict the… Continue reading
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UK: A WINTER OF DISCONTENT OR DISORGANIZATION
The number of strikes has intensified. However, there is no attempt yet to bring the strikes together in one general public sector strike. Nothing less will suffice to break the bosses resolve. This article explains why. The capitalists in England have their back to the wall or is it the cliff?! Continue reading
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Watch: Lowkey and Matt Kennard on The British-American Project
Lowkey is joined by investigative journalists Matt Kennard (Declassified UK) and Asa Winstanley (Electronic Intifada), along with activist Huda Ammori (Palestine Action), for a special episode of The Watchdog. Continue reading
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British empire killed 165 million Indians in 40 years: How colonialism inspired fascism
British colonialism caused at least 100 million deaths in India in roughly 40 years, according to an academic study. Continue reading
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The UK in Ukraine
Yesterday the British media covered a story regarding the use of Royal Marines in the Ukraine both before and after Russia began its Special Military Operation in the country. This article will examine what this could mean as well as the significance of this announced being made. Continue reading
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Will Belated Open Letter by The New York Times and other Media Outlets Be Enough to Compel Julian Assange’s Release From Prison?
Or will vindictive elites exposed as war criminals in documents Assange released and who engaged in deep-reaching smear campaign directed against him try to lock up the heroic truth-teller forever? Continue reading
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The journalist-run, intelligence-linked operation that warped British pandemic policy
Presented as an independent voice for “unbiased” scientific advice, iSAGE provided a channel for media spinmeisters, spies and psy-op specialists to influence Britain’s pandemic policy without accountability. Leaked internal emails show members fretting over its unethical methods. Continue reading
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