Anarchist News Review: Palestine Action Ban, Welfare Rebellion and Israel-Iran

Keir Starmer’s Palestine Action Ban Is a Threat to Democracy

Britain’s government is banning the group Palestine Action for its role in nonviolent direct action against Israeli arms factories — a sinister and unprecedented move from a government that wants to suppress opposition to the Gaza genocide.

Anarchist News Review: Palestine Action Ban, Welfare Rebellion and Israel-Iran

It comes to something when even voicing support for a non-violent direct action group risks being designated as crossing the line, but Labour is no defender of freedom of speech and protest. Tabitha and Andy join us to discuss the decision of former defender of principled dissent Keir Starmer to ban an organisation that he might once have protected, that same MP’s determination to rob billions off the poorest to spend on pointless nuclear bomber…

Palestine Action: From Protest To Proscription, Starmer's Authoritarian Drift - Labour Heartlands

“I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail.” — Muhammad Ali, boxer and anti-war activist. Protest Is Not Terrorism: Labour’s Assault on British Democratic Tradition The working class has always been the engine of protest, the inconvenient truth-teller that has dragged this country towards something resembling democracy. Without it, we don’t just become a province of Oceania, we become “Airstrip One,” plunging headf…

Starmer plumps for Warfare State not Welfare State - Anarchist Communist Group

Arriving at the NATO Summit in the Hague on Tuesday, June 24th, Keir Starmer announced that he was set to up the amount spent by the UK government on defence to 5 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over the next ten years.He did not explain where the money for this would come from. It is calculated that such an increase would add around £30 billion to the 2027 target of £75 billion on defence spending. Later he announced that 12 F-35A …