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First Rwanda flight fails to leave today after EHRC intervention

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The flight due to leave from a military airfield to Rwanda with only a handful of asylum seekers this evening, 14th June will not be leaving today. Read about the final legal challenge from the EHRC that led to the Home Office announcing that the flight will not be leaving today on the BBC website […]

Cardiff says no to a sculpture honouring Marconi, “fascist, racist, and anti-Semite.” By Alfio Bernabei

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The news that a sculpture honouring Guglielmo Marconi, the “father of radio”, could be abandoned after Cardiff councillors learned of his support for Mussolini has been greeted with relief by Italian antifascists. The fascists, as expected, are incandescent with rage. Eead article on ANPI London Facebook page by Alfio Bernabei here

National Action: Swansea Nazi Alex Davies jailed

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A 27-year-old man described in court as a Nazi has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years for being a member of a banned fascist group. – BBC website Alex Davies, of Swansea, was a member of National Action (NA) after it was outlawed in December 2016. A jury found him guilty after it heard NA had […]

First Rwanda deportation flight to leave UK on 14 June, says Priti Patel

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Group of asylum seekers sent formal notices advising they will be relocated to east African country, say officials There remain few details about the numbers of people expected to be sent to Rwanda in this first flight, and how they have been identified. Officials said those who will be removed are already in detention, while […]

Asylum seekers stage hunger strike as UK prepares Rwanda deportation

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Asylum seekers at an immigration detention centre in the UK say they went on hunger strike after being told they would be deported to Rwanda. Seventeen asylum seekers at Brook House detention centre near Gatwick Airport, Sussex, have told the BBC of an atmosphere of distress and despair among detainees. Read more on BBC website […]

Third Met Police child strip-search case investigated

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The police watchdog has confirmed it is investigating the strip-search of a third child by the Met Police, after two other controversial cases. Two teenage girls, known as Child Q and Olivia, were strip-searched by officers while they were menstruating. Acting Commissioner Sir Stephen House said last week there was a further case but he […]

Ray Hill obituary: The Guardian

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Ray Hill, anti-fascist activist, born 2 December 1939; died 14 May 2022 Former neo-Nazi activist who changed course and threw himself into campaigning against racism and rightwing extremism Read full obituary at The Guardian website here

BBC Radio London remembers Ray Hill

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Ray Hill remembered on BBC Radio London on Robert Elms on Sunday 22nd May 2022. Link here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0c3ywgl. Starts about 70 minutes in at 10.10am

Paying tribute to Ray Hill

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In the pantheon of heroes this country’s anti-fascist movement has produced, there is surely a guaranteed seat of honour for Ray Hill, Searchlight’s most celebrated ‘mole’, who sadly died on 14 May. No one (or at least no one who can yet be spoken of) has inflicted such damage on the extreme right movement, nor […]

RIP Ray Hill

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Photo: Andy Bell, May 2022 Ray Hill, that giant of the anti-fascist movement passed away this morning after being diagnosed with cancer only a few weeks ago. It’s 40 years since Ray, then a dyed-in-the-wool nazi, underwent a profound conversion and pledged the rest of his life to fighting fascism, first and most devastatingly as […]

Edinburgh: Nicolson Square protests ‘force Home Office to abandon raid’

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Police officers and immigration officials were seen in Edinburgh’s Nicolson Square in the city centre on Thursday evening. It is understood that immigration officials attempted to remove individuals from a local restaurant at the square. Calls were put out by activists on social media for people to gather for a protest, mirroring the events on Glasgow’s […]