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Obituary for Rick Sumner: A miner, a trade unionist and an anti-fascist Written by Graeme Atkinson
Rick Sumner 1933 – 2021 Rick Sumner passed away peacefully at home on Saturday while watching his beloved Manchester City contest the FA Cup semi-final. Though a proud Lancastrian, Rick was for many years a miner at Shuttle Eye Colliery in West Yorkshire but also worked variously as a trawlerman fishing in the icy waters […]
Syriza’s Road to Ruin by Costas Isychos
Five years ago Syriza won the Greek elections and raised the hopes of the European Left. Costas Isychos, a minister in their first government, explains why the party’s socialist ambitions evaporated. When the results of the parliamentary elections were announced on 25 January 2015, all eyes were on Greece. For the first time, a party of […]
QAnon Candidates Are Winning Local Elections. Can They Be Stopped?
Read full article by Vera Bergengruen on Time website here
“This Is War”: Inside the Secret Chat Where Far-Right Extremists Devised Their Post-Capitol Plans
Exposed by ProPublica the Telegram chatroom Read more at the ProPublica website here
Ex-leader of Austrian far right charged with corruption
The former head of Austria’s far right party, Heinz-Christian Strache who rose to vice-chancellor, has been charged with corruption, prosecutors said Thursday, following the “Ibizagate” scandal that brought down the ruling coalition. Read more at The Local website here
Police called to Southport hotel after Britain First stage asylum seeker stunt
Far-right group slammed by anti-racism campaigners after visit to hotel Read full article by Kate Lally on Liverpool Echo online here
Priti Patel’s detention policies found to breach human rights rules
A landmark court ruling has held the home secretary, Priti Patel, accountable for failures in ensuring that deaths in immigration detention centres are properly investigated. Two judges in the immigration court ruled on Wednesday that three of the home secretary’s detention policies breached human rights rules and that she could not frustrate or undermine inquiries into […]
Racist Cambridge graduate found with ‘anarchist cookbook’ showing how to make bombs said he wanted to go ‘on killing spree’, trial hears
Oliver Bel, of Salford, bought the ‘manual’ online, which contained methods of creating homemade bombs, a court was told. Mr Bel, 24, came to the attention of the Counter Terrorism Unit in Cambridge after his tutor reported the anti-Semitic remarks he posted online, Manchester Crown Court heard. Jurors were told that in a Facebook post, […]
Met officer jailed for breaking black man’s knee in ‘racial profiling’ assault
A Metropolitan Police officer who broke a black father’s leg in front of his children has been jailed after a judge said that the case was a “clear case of racial profiling”. Charlie Harrison, 39, attacked Carl Abrahams, 47, as he left a graveyard with his two sons, aged 13 and 16, who had been […]
Gruppe S: German far-right group on trial for ‘terror plot’
The trial of 11 suspected members of a far-right “terror” group has begun in the German city of Stuttgart. The suspects, aged between 32 and 61, were arrested in February last year. Prosecutors say the 11 men – all Germans – were members of Gruppe S (Group S), which planned attacks on migrants, Muslims and […]
County Durham Tory candidates suspended over racist and Islamophobic social media posts
Read on Morning Star online here
Spain’s left-wing Podemos party blames far-right for attack on Murcia headquarters
The headquarters of Spain’s Podemos (United We Can) party was attacked on Friday morning by unknown assailants who reportedly firebombed the building. Read on Euronews website here
50th Anniversary of the 1st World Romani Congress
On 8th April 2021, the World Romani Congress will mark 50 years since the 1971 founding event in London. The online congress will start on April 8th and will be stretched over a month starting in London and moving to Berlin joining cities as far apart as Belgrade and Buenos Aires, activists from Barcelona to […]
‘People brand you’: UK universities sign pledge to fight hate against Gypsies, Travellers and Roma
Gypsy and Roma children have the highest exclusion rates from school and only 3-4% go to university. A new scheme aims to change that. Read full article on The Guardian website here
Teen who called himself Hitler sentenced for terror offences
A schoolboy who created his own online neo-Nazi group has been sentenced after admitting terrorism offences. The 16-year-old, from Newcastle, called himself Hitler and set up accounts on multiple social media platforms which glorified extreme right-wing violence. He had pleaded guilty to four counts of inviting support for National Action, a banned neo-Nazi organisation. At […]
UN Anti Racism Day: World against Racism actions can be viewed online
Saturday 20 March – #WorldAgainstRacism day of global protest saw 3,000 join major international rally, and anti racist actions across 20 countries on a live link studio, with #TakeTheKnee actions in over 50 towns and cities across Britain, with #WorldAgainstRacism trending in the TUC & Stand Up To Racism Twitterstorm. VIEW FULL PICTURE GALLERIES OF ACTIONS ACROSS ENGLAND, […]
Shrewsbury 24: Ricky Tomlinson among picketers to have convictions quashed by Court of Appeal over 1972 strike
The convictions have been overturned in the Court of Appeal today after a decades long campaign Ricky Tomlinson has said “This was a political trial not just of me and the Shrewsbury pickets, but was a trial of the trade union movement.” Read more here
PCS statement on the policing bill
There are many concerns about the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill that has passed its second reading in the House of Commons and therefore continues its passage before the House of Lords. PCS, the trade union representing civil servants has issued a statement outlining their main concerns. Read the statement on the PCS website […]
Tommy Robinson ‘misused’ donations from far-right supporters, claim former allies
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon has been accused of misusing supporters’ money, as he declares himself bankrupt despite receiving hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations and funding, The Independent can reveal. This month Robinson, the English Defence League (EDL) founder and now self-styled journalist, was listed on the insolvency register under his original name Stephen Christopher Lennon. But The Independent has […]
