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IRR News (29 January – 12 February 2020)
Nearly two years since the Windrush scandal broke, only 36 people have received compensation, from a fund meant to compensate up to 15,000, while thousands, whose lives were ruined by the Home Office, and who remain in debt, find the compensation forms impossible to fill in, as they are being asked to produce the same… Continue reading
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Prevent and Countering Violent Extremism usher in ‘whole society’ surveillance
In the aftermath of Sudesh Amman’s attacks in London on February 2, the Evening Standard London ran as its frontpage an appeal from Counter-terror police chiefs, calling for the public to take a more active role in stopping terror threats. Continue reading
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Poll: Labour members say anti-Semitism crisis “invented”
Almost three quarters of the UK Labour Party’s members agree that the anti-Semitism crisis in the party has been “invented or wildly exaggerated.” Continue reading
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Assange Extradition: Blatant Judicial Double Standards
The judge who was previously in charge of the Julian Assange extradition case was in the headlines again over another extradition case, this time refusing to extradite a UK couple because they faced a life sentence for murder, with no prospect of release. Continue reading
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Antisemitism threats will keep destroying Labour
If there is one issue that denotes the terminal decline of Labour as a force for change – desperately needed social, economic and environmental change – it is not Brexit. It is the constant furore over an “antisemitism crisis” supposedly plaguing the party for the past five years. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 7-12 February 2020
12 February 2020 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Rank-and-file teachers in Sydney adopt resolution defending Assange and Manning http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/12/nswt-f12.html Britain’s Got A Supreme Court Scandal: NEW Damning Emails Show UK Corruption In The Case Against Julian Assange… Continue reading
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The Jamaica Charter Flight Underscores the UK’s Broken Deportation System
Despite unprecedented public outrage, a deportation flight to Jamaica left at dawn on Tuesday morning with 17 people onboard. A last minute court order meant another 25 people who had been threatened with removal remained in the UK. Continue reading
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Kissing International Law Goodbye to Satisfy Israeli Ambitions
Palestinian chiefs say that Trump’s so-called peace plan contains 300 violations of international law and they will take it up with the Security Council. That’s nearly two violations per page. Given the document was put together by America and Israel, both lawless and criminal to the core, no-one is surprised. It is a brazen expression of criminal… Continue reading
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Welfare Weekly 8 February 2020
8 February 2020 — Welfare Weekly Landmark High Court ruling could see thousands of unmarried parents given higher bereavement benefits Landmark High Court judgement that denying new-style bereavement benefits to unmarried, cohabiting partners with children is incompatible with human rights. Read more Continue reading
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Kleptotors and the DWP
By TruePublica Editor: You’ve just been unexpectedly transported to the alien nation of Kleptotors 186. The planet has substantial mineral wealth and food diversity and is populated with a sophisticated society arranged around the type of democratic principles we are used to back on Earth. Unfortunately, the wealth of the Kleptos has come about through… Continue reading
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Spycops update, February 2020
Here’s the monthly roundup of the campaign for truth and justice about the scandal of Britain’s political secret police. Continue reading
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RAY McGOVERN: German TV Exposes the Lies That Entrapped Julian Assange
Truth has broken through for those confused about how a publisher ended up in a maximum security prison in London with a one-way extradition ticket to court in the U.S. and the rest of his life behind bars. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 6 February 2020
6 February 2020 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back ‘All Journalists at Risk’ if Assange Handed to US Jailers https://www.globalresearch.ca/all-journalists-risk-assange-handed-us-jailers/5702932 Don’t Extradite Assange meeting in London: The political issues http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/06/deam-f06.html Continue reading
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Sign the Petition! Stop all charter flight deportations to Jamaica and other Commonwealth countries
Given the Windrush scandal : the apology by the Government, promises of justice and compensation to people of the Windrush generation and others who came to the UK from Commonwealth countries threatened with deportation, there should be no mass deportations of anybody to those countries. Continue reading
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Brexit & the British Working Class
Much has been written on Brexit, stage 1 of which occurred on 31 January. But a key point has been ignored: the UK’s departure from the European Union is due to a reactionary revolt by the British (mainly English) working class. This went against the established policy of the political elites, bourgeoisie, ruling class –… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 4 February 2020 (01/20)
4 February 2020 — Statewatch Also available as a pdf file: http://statewatch.org/news/2020/feb/email-4-2-20.pdf STATEWATCH ANALYSES 1. Italy guilty of refoulements in 2009 handover of Eritrean shipwreck survivors to Libya 2 : Germany: Shadow army or isolated cases? Right-wing structures in the security authorities Continue reading
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Belmarsh Prisoners Show Duty to Civil Disobedience
This is a trial of the First Amendment as a foundation of our society and it calls for popular participation, writes Nozomi Hayase. Continue reading
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Election: LSE report on the British Press – ‘From watchdog to attack dog’
Irrespective of anyone’s political affiliation – the mainstream media has a responsibility to hold power to account, not facilitate wannabe authoritarians into Downing Street. Don’t forget these are the words from the London School of Economics, founded in 1895 for the betterment of society. Despite its name, the school is organised into 25 academic departments… Continue reading
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Labour’s Leadership Candidates Need a Reckoning, Not a Whitewash
One of the most striking things about periods of profound political upheaval is the inconsistency. The Corbyn moment, which has (for the moment at least) transformed both Labour and the political perspectives of the left as a whole, is no different. Continue reading
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The Prosecution of Julian Assange and Its Impact on the Freedom of the Press
On 30 January 2020, at the National Press Club’s First Amendment Lounge in Washington D.C., a panel of experts discussed the Trump Administration’s indictment of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange and the impact Assange’s extradition and prosecution could have on the freedom of the press. Continue reading
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