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A Cold War re-education in 8 minutes
The Cold War didn’t have a hard and fast beginning that transformed the world or that turned heroic anti-Nazi Soviets into Satanic Commies on a particular afternoon. Continue reading
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Join us for Solidarity Knows No Borders Webinar #3
We are excited to announce the third event in our #SolidarityKnowsNoBorders webinar series THIS Thursday 25th of March at 6pm – Cases into Causes, Causes into a Movement: How Can Individual Campaigns Lead to Collective Justice? Make sure you register on Zoom to join now! Continue reading
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NHS: “Maybe we will never catch up”
This week the worry of NHS staff is clear; like the eye surgeon who believes that it will take over two years to work through the backlog of operations and suggested: ” maybe we will never catch up.” Similarly, an NHS trust boss says cancer and heart surgery will take many years to work through.… Continue reading
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Johnson takes Britain into dangerous new cold war against China
For Britain to spend billions of pounds on a military build-up against China is a criminal waste of resources and is directly against the economic interests of the British people, says FIONA EDWARDS Continue reading
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UK – The 10 steps of democratic breakdown
By TruePublica: This article about Britain’s democratic breakdown was first published 29th January 2020 – and is ever more salient as each month passes with yet more characteristics of an authoritarian government being exposed every week. Continue reading
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Democracy: Is Political leafleting now banned as well?
The election of Boris Johnson has ended up with the prime Minister using special Covid legislation to entrench power not seen since the times of Henry VIII. The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is a stark warning to anyone who doubts that assertion. In the meantime, democracy is being slowly chipped away behind the… Continue reading
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GMWatch publishes its response to UK government consultation on deregulation of gene editing
GMWatch has submitted its response to the UK government consultation on the deregulation of gene editing in food and farming. The response is co-authored by GMWatch editor Claire Robinson, acting on behalf of GMWatch, and molecular geneticist Dr Michael Antoniou, who is responding as an individual. Continue reading
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Responding to the UK government’s public consultation on gene editing
Here are some information/action points to help you respond to the DEFRA Consultation on the Regulation of Genetic Technologies. The response needs to be in by 17 March – the closing date of the consultation. Continue reading
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Stop police crushing protests – take action now
Campaigners are demanding the National Police Chief’s Council stops cracking down on the right to protest. Will you join us? Continue reading
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UK Green MP stops motion against bogus anti-Semitism definition
UK Member of Parliament Caroline Lucas intervened at a biannual conference to stop her Green Party from passing a motion against a misleading definition of anti-Semitism, activists say. Green activists have accused her of “filibustering” and “cheating,” which she denies. Continue reading
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Are you seriously annoying?
The UK government is rushing through new anti-protest laws which could ban protests that are too noisy or annoying – surely the definition of a good protest? The ridiculous and outrageous proposals would “make a dictator blush”, according to one MP, but last night Conservative MPs voted them through their first stage in parliament. Continue reading
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UK: Do we still want to have a right to protest in 2022?
This Bill would in effect remove the right to protest. It would give police officers the power to ban or place restrictions of their choice upon public demonstrations. Continue reading
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Racism in British News Media – The Missing Story
On Saturday October 29, 2011 over 500 people from across England protested near the Parliament building in London. What was startling for me, an American journalist covering that protest against brutality by British police, was not who attended but who was absent. Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: What have they got to hide?
This week’s Panorama gave us the extraordinary tale of a dog food supplier turned PPE broker bagging herself millions acting as a ‘bridge’ for a Hong Kong supplier. Details of the largest contract – worth £178m – came to light only after the BBC’s probing prompted the Government to publish. Continue reading
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UK: Democracy Defeated
Your rights have been taken away by the ideology of 359 right-wing extremists in a building in Central London that is itself crumbling – just like democracy itself. Continue reading
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Britain’s Nuke Increase Is In Breach Of Its NPT Obligations
Less than a month ago the British government chided Iran to ‘come back into compliance’ with the nuclear deal. In fact it is the U.S. and its European proxies, including Britain, which are not in compliance with the JCPOA. Iran has exceeded some technical limits of the nuclear deal. But it is allowed to do… Continue reading
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Britain’s secret political police
A shocking story of how a special squad of Britain’s Metropolitan Police, in collusion with MI5 – the domestic ‘security’ service – secretly infiltrated hundreds of UK political and campaign groups, and the question of whether the spying continues. As told by Asa Winstanley, who has personal experience. Continue reading
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Tens of thousands join the call to protect our #FreedomToProtest
Over 100,000 people have now signed our petition opposing the government’s new Policing Bill and calling on the National Police Chiefs Council to adopt our Charter for Freedom of Assembly Rights, setting out how police should protect, not restrict, the right to protest. Continue reading
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India should hold the line on Myanmar
The Indian government has done the right thing by sending an advisory to the four northeastern states — Mizoram, Nagaland, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh — to be vigilant about preventing large scale influx of people from across the border with Myanmar where the internal situation is deteriorating. Continue reading
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US spy firm at centre of sensitive NHS patient data grab
AstraZeneca, Microsoft and Amazon held talks on the creation of “an extraordinary and internationally unique resource”, a “single, national, standardised, event-based longitudinal record for Britain’s 65 million citizens Continue reading
The New Dark Age 