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What kind of “Peace” are Britain’s Private Military Companies Bringing to the Middle East?
The US government, with the UK hot on its heels, has long viewed the Middle East as a region where the presence of its army is indispensable not only because there are energy resources there, but due to the opportunity to control vast territories under the guise of “spreading democracy”. Therefore, American and British private… Continue reading
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UK Govt: They’re refusing to answer
Last night, in his address to the nation, Boris Johnson cited ‘Operation Moonshot’ as a cornerstone of the Government’s response to coronavirus. It’s the Government’s latest plan to expand the national coronavirus testing programme and provide rapid turnaround tests. The programme is estimated to cost more than a staggering £100 billion to deliver – and… Continue reading
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A life costs £10,000: how G4S’ Brook House detention contract works
In 2017, security company G4S was in the headlines again after the Panorama TV programme exposed new revelations of brutality in Brook House, one of two immigration detention centres the company runs for the Home Office. Two years later, the National Audit Office has published a report on G4S’ contract to run the centre. Continue reading
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Industrializing Class War By William Bowles
Have you noticed that it’s no longer PC Dixon of Dock Green who mediates the relationship between the state and its citizens as he goes about his beat in your neighbourhood? Instead, it’s a Kevlar-armoured, video-monitored, taser-equipped, drone-surveilled, spit-masked supplied soldier, straight out of Star Wars, who now staggers along under the weight of an… Continue reading
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UK: Privatising Police?
G4S and Serco could be about to get police powers of arrest. They’ve ripped off taxpayers and been accused of abusing people in their care – soon they could be carrying handcuffs and turning up on doorsteps to arrest people. The minister for Justice, David Lidington, is deciding right now whether to give powers of… Continue reading
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Last Chance to Stop the Privatisation of the National Discrimination Helpline
The government wants to privatise a national discrimination helpline – and hand it over to G4S. Anti-discrimination groups have launched a legal challenge to stop them. A judge decides tomorrow on whether that challenge can go ahead. Continue reading
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FOI: Stop the G4S/Virgin Takeover of the NHS!
Yesterday, the government’s own advisors backed what 38 Degrees members have been asking for in our hundreds of thousands – that we have a right to know what private companies who run services like in our NHS are up to. But here’s the snag. The advice is buried on page 51 of a new report… Continue reading
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Barnardo’s and G4S, partners in the child detention business By Frances Webber
Four years ago the coalition government promised to end child detention for immigration purposes. But they didn’t. Instead, the UK’s biggest children’s charity and security giant G4S created a prettier prison. Continue reading
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‘Neither criminals, nor animals!’ Britain’s immigration detainees speak out By Jasmine Sallis
The UK immigration authorities and their commercial partners are trying to suppress a wave of protests sweeping British detention centres. In the past week hundreds of asylum-seekers detained at four high-security facilities have started hunger-strikes against draconian Home Office policies. Continue reading
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G4S given job of community placements
G4S is the biggest winner of “Help to Work” contracts, the latest workfare programme which started yesterday. G4S is currently under investigation for fraud. As part of this contract G4S will seek placements in voluntary groups, which will be responsible for reporting claimants for benefit sanctions if they fail to comply with the placement. Continue reading
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Why the Jimmy Mubenga trial matters. By ex-Chief Inspector of Prisons By David Ramsbotham
On Thursday the Crown Prosecution Service announced that three former G4S guards, Stuart Tribelnig, Terry Hughes and Colin Kaler, would stand trial for the manslaughter of Jimmy Mubenga on a BA plane in October 2010. Long before Mubenga’s death, Lord Ramsbotham was among those who warned repeatedly that Home Office contractors used dangerous methods of… Continue reading
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UK watchdog takes another bite out of failing outsourcer G4S By John Grayson
Stephen Small spends a lot of his time trying to convince Members of Parliament that his employer is nothing like as bad as they think. He works for G4S, the gigantic security company that holds £2 billion worth of UK government contracts spanning public health, welfare, education, immigration and the justice sector. Continue reading
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G4S & Serco fraud: Oops, we couldn’t tell the difference between right and wrong By Ellie Butt
British outsourcers cheated taxpayers out of tens of millions of pounds. Yesterday they said sorry. So that’s all right, then. All eyes were on the representatives for G4S and Serco, companies that charged taxpayers tens of millions of pounds for doing absolutely nothing. Continue reading
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G4S guard bludgeoned woman to death By Clare Sambrook
Last November a 42 year-old pharmaceutical worker from Thailand took part in a conference about HIV treatment at Glasgow’s Clyde Auditorium. Her name was Khanokporn Satjawat. A G4S guard checked Satjawat’s ID. He didn’t like her manner. Later he followed her into the toilets and bludgeoned her to death with a fire extinguisher. Continue reading
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Double your money! UK private security as terrorism vector By William Engdahl
The widening of the spiral of fear and increasing demand for ‘protection’ creates an international protection racket cartel, indistinguishable only in that they call themselves ‘legal’, from organized criminal gangs. Continue reading
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Family Sues G4S For Killing Angolan Deportee By Pratap ChatterjeeFamily Sues G4S For Killing Angolan Deportee By Pratap Chatterjee
The family of Jimmy Mubenga, an Angolan refugee in the UK, has brought a civil lawsuit against G4S, the world’s largest private security company. Mubenga died on October 12, 2010 while being restrained by G4S guards who were hired to help deport him from the country. Continue reading
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After Mubenga unlawful killing verdict: Could asylum seekers have a worse landlord than G4S?
• Unlawful killing verdict • Jimmy Mubenga died after ‘restraint’ by three G4S guards • G4S gave disputed evidence to Parliamentary committee about restraint techniques • Lately executive Stephen Small dismissed allegations about abuse of asylum seekers housed by G4S Continue reading
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