Skip to content or view screen version

UK Anti-racism Newswire Archive

Full article

Reminder: Emergency demo against deportations to DRC Mon. 26th 1-3pm

25-02-2007 13:11

STOP DEPORTATIONS TO DRC - CONGO IS NOT SAFE

Emergency protest Monday 26 February 1-3pm.
Home Office
2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DF
(nearest tubes St James Park and Westminster)

Full article | 7 comments

The Muslim BNP

25-02-2007 00:37

A breakdown of the views held by local Birmingham resident Gina Khan, who claims to be challenging radical islam, but instead seems to have been giving the media all the irresponsible scapegoating they could want. Her views mirror those of the BNP and were she not Muslim herself, you would think they were the words of the far-right! I have below The Times' article with her quotes and my response.

Full article | 1 comment

UN envoy hits Israel apartheid (by Latuff)

24-02-2007 07:27

The Israeli Apartheid
Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff, on behalf of the brave Palestinian people and their struggle against U.S. backed IsraHell's state terror.

Full article | 9 comments

Fascists NOT WELCOME in Reading - or anywhere else! Demo report.

24-02-2007 00:18

On Monday 19th February, the local Reading press reported that BNP leader Nick Griffin, was gonna pay our town a visit on the Wednesday. The BNP's regional organiser reckons they've got "a lot of members (in Reading) but no organiser" and that if they could be organised, they could field candidates in the local elections, maybe up to 4.

Full article

Middlesbrough Solidarity March For the Congolese Community

23-02-2007 18:11

3.00 pm Sunday 25th February
Marion House
Sacred Heart RC Church
Linthorpe Road
Middlesbrough

Organised by: African Community Association in the North East (ACANE)

Full article | 2 comments

What do Oligarch Cherney, Lord Pearson of Rannoch and the UKIP have in common?

23-02-2007 16:43

Further to my last posting  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/362998.html I wanted to draw your attention to these articles on UKIP...

 http://www.itv.com/news/index_f819d6a8061d27e471bc9c5c637caa01.html

and this

 http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKL233341920070223

... this is madness! Criminal oligarch Cherney meeting with a senior member of the House of Lords to provide money for UKIP... why else would a Lord meet with a dubious Russian oligarch. How can this have gone unnoticed???

Full article | 1 addition

Stop the deportation of Aseng and her six children to DRC

23-02-2007 16:42


On Friday 16th February Aseng Nzoabar and six children, aged between 3 and 17 years, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) were detained in a "dawn raid" in Leeds.
They have been given removal directions for Monday 26th February on the "deportation charter flight" to the DRC.

Full article

New DVD by La Plataforma: Video-Chronicles 2006

22-02-2007 14:32

We include in this release the video-chronicles we have produced during the last year, trying to give voice in an audiovisual format to different moments of the anti-capitalist struggle.

Full article

Manufacturing Islamophobia

22-02-2007 14:32

In India Islamophobia, and fear of Muslims has come on the top of ongoing RSS project of spreading Hate against Muslims which has been in operation since last more than seven decades. The interesting point is that a numerical majority has been indoctrinated to believe that this minority is a threat to them.

Full article | 1 addition | 4 comments

Glasgow: 100+ Protest at Removal to DR Congo

22-02-2007 13:37

Protesting in Brand Street
Over a hundred Glaswegian asylum seekers and supporters, most of African origin, held a lively protest outside the Home Office Reporting Centre at Brand Street yesterday (Wednesday). They were protesting against the detention and attempted removal of Eddie Ngienga, Angelique Lukombo and their children, here since 1999.

Full article

Emergency demo Monday re deportations to DRCongo

22-02-2007 12:21

At yesterday's meeting of the LSE Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! society at which a representative of the Congo Support Project spoke, it was agreed that we would organise an emergency demo on Monday to protest against the deportations planned for Monday evening. Police permission under SOCPA has now been granted. Please distribute information widely and come to event.

Full article | 6 comments

UK To Ban Non-English Speaking Immigrants?

22-02-2007 10:00

An official British Government agency chose to mark UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day and its theme of ‘harmonious environment for all languages’ by questioning whether non-English speaking immigrants should be admitted to the country.

Full article

Don't blame immigrants for bad use of English

21-02-2007 16:25

We are told that ‘multiculturalism has failed’, but not what multiculturalism is. Multicultural Britain isn’t a policy, it’s a fact. And now, apparently translating material into different languages, the purpose of which was to help people take part (integrate!) in society (attend evening classes for example or seek refuge from domestic violence) has suddently become a barrier to ‘integration’.

Full article | 1 comment

Racist healthcare denial in Brighton and Hove

21-02-2007 14:11

On Friday 16th February about 20 people gathered with banners at the Royal Sussex Hospital, at the office of Jackie Bishop, local NHS Private Patient and Oversea's Patient's Co-ordinator. They were protesting against racist healthcare denial and demanding healthcare for all. Jacki Bishop has been denying asylum seekers treatment, kicked people out of hospitals and sent huge bills to people who were entitled to free care.

Full article | 3 comments

De Menezes Murderer/Patsy Rewarded

21-02-2007 02:42

Surveillance video proved the police to be lying about the incident. It appears that this officer was rewarded for covering for the real shooter, who may have worked for an intelligence service, and murdered the electrician who saw something he should not have. You do not empty a clip into someone's head at point-blank range.

Full article

A Disorderly Retreat: Australian Conservatives on the Back Foot

20-02-2007 16:55

The Australian Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer tonight made his first ’07 appearance on the popular current affairs program, Lateline. Downer, known locally as a gutless, smug, toff, was clearly on the back foot when confronted with the two principal issues that are decimating the conservative government; participation in the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq and the abandonment of the Australian citizen, David Hicks.

Full article

The Model for Iraq was Ireland, 1692, Divide and Conquer as Imperial Rules

20-02-2007 16:33

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh's revelations that the Israeli government is encouraging Kurdish separatism in Iraq, Iran, and Syria should ring a bell for anyone who has followed the long history of English imperial ambitions.

Full article

Credit Suisse puts jungle destroyer on the Hong Kong stock exchange

20-02-2007 02:15

The Swiss bank Credit Suisse is launching the Malaysian timber firm Samling on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Also involved in the float are the British HSBC and the Australian Macquarie Bank.

The sale of stock will begin on 23 February, trading starts officially on 7 March. Samling expects the float to give it 280 million US dollars which it wants to use to keep cutting down forests and repay debts.

Full article | 1 addition | 4 comments

Anti-BNP demo, Wednesday 21st February, Reading

19-02-2007 15:25

Nick Griffin is coming to Reading on Wednesday to sir up racial hatred, and to try to organise the BNP.

Full article

No Border Gathering, Glasgow: 10/11 March 07

19-02-2007 00:28

A weekend of discussion, workshops, information-sharing, planning and co-ordination. Bringing together the No Border Network and refugee and migrant rights groups from across the UK.