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Civil liberties highlights

  • Civil liberties / The Labour party is the agent of increased political repression in Britain

    Starmer’s government was installed to disarm working-class resistance and destroy the pro-Palestine movement.

    4 May 2025 ,
  • Civil liberties / London Metropolitan police review of Harpal Brar’s book on zionism

    ‘It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good’ was not my favourite proverb at school, but I’ve recently come to fully appreciate its meaning.

    21 Mar 2025 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / David Miller detained by British counter-terrorism police at Heathrow

    The British state, egged on by its rabid zionist attack-dogs, continues to persecute any journalist or activist who spreads awareness about its genocidal crimes.

    10 Mar 2025 , Press TV
  • Palestine / Gaza ceasefire: Palestinian resistance celebrates significant victory

    While the war for liberation is far from over, the Israeli entity has been mortally wounded.

    16 Feb 2025 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / All eyes on the ‘enemy within’ – Prevent scheme targets dissenting children

    British teachers are being tasked with the surveillance and intimidation of Palestine-supporting young people in schools and colleges.

    2 Dec 2024 , Lalkar
  • USA / Persecution of the Uhuru 3 reveals limits of free speech in the USA

    The case of the Uhuru 3 must be seen as part of a broader global counteroffensive against any form of opposition to Nato’s wars.

    11 Nov 2024 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Labour means austerity, racism, repression and war

    So where are the trade unions?

    1 Oct 2024 ,
  • Civil liberties / It’s a free country, isn’t it?

    On the creeping fascistisation of British society.

    26 Sep 2024 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray on Richard Medhurst and the right to armed resistance

    It is becoming easier to list the truly dissident UK journalists who have not been arrested for terrorism than those who have.

    3 Sep 2024 , Craig Murray
  • Divide and rule / Riots and the awakening of class consciousness

    Never is the capitalist class made more aware of the existential threat it faces than when confronted by the infinite power of a united working class.

    1 Sep 2024 , Lalkar
  • Divide and rule / Class unity against fascism!

    The Labour party has always sought to keep the working class divided along religious and racial lines. It remains part of the problem, not the solution.

    13 Aug 2024 ,
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange is free at last!

    Our press was never truly free, and today it is more incarcerated than ever.

    9 Jul 2024 , Lalkar
  • Trade unions / Gaza, inflation, Assange … Where are the trade unions?

    While crime after crime is committed against the people, those who should be organising the resistance are doing nothing.

    30 Apr 2024 ,
  • Civil liberties / Assange extradition: where are the unions?

    As an innocent man is tortured for the crime of exposing the criminals, British workers should be organising meaningful action in defence of all our rights.

    24 Apr 2024 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Latest twist on Assange’s extradition: cause for pessimism or optimism?

    While an individualist view tends to despondence, there is a positive aspect to British imperialism’s blatant complicity in persecuting free speech.

    28 Mar 2024 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / The tragic end of Gonzalo Lira: A voice silenced in Ukraine

    A US citizen done to death by the US’s fascist proxies in Ukraine for the crime of telling the truth about Nato’s proxy war against Russia.

    21 Mar 2024 , Helsinki Times
  • Media / John Pilger: the man they couldn’t silence

    The most courageous, fearless and decent of journalists, who devoted his life to speaking the truth and uncovering imperialist lies.

    20 Mar 2024 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Rochdale 1 Sunak 0: decoding Rishi’s meltdown

    Ruling class in a panic over Gaza and gearing up for political policing as Rishi Sunak lashes out against ‘extremism’ and ‘threats to democracy’.

    15 Mar 2024 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Women found guilty under terror laws for wearing a sticker at a demo

    Another Orwellian attempt to use the courts to brand opponents of imperialist-backed terror as ‘supporters of terrorism’.

    11 Mar 2024 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Prof David Miller’s significant tribunal victory: anti-zionism is not racism!

    A substantial fly in the ointment for those who are trying to criminalise all criticism of and opposition to zionist Israel and its blood-drenched British enablers.

    7 Mar 2024 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Journalist Graham Philips still being targeted by the British state

    The British ruling class has a long tradition of persecuting those who work to shed light on inconvenient truths.

    5 Mar 2024 ,
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange’s final appeal against extradition from Britain to the USA

    If the WikiLeaks editor is extradited to face trumped-up ‘treason’ charges in the USA, it is the death of investigations into the inner workings of power by the press.

    19 Feb 2024 , Chris Hedges Report
  • Argentina / His name is Cristian Díaz and his crime is supporting Palestine

    In Argentina, as in Britain and Germany, workers in support of Palestine are being identified by zionists and targeted by the state.

    17 Feb 2024 , Orinoco Tribune
  • Civil liberties / Solidarity against police repression: Labour’s role in Gaza genocide

    The Labour party’s control over movements of solidarity and ‘opposition’ in Britain is key to the present impotence of the working class.

    14 Feb 2024 ,
  • Civil liberties / Iranian Marxists in solidarity with our arrested comrades

    ‘When the imperialist governments fail to impede solidarity with the oppressed, they resort to suppression.’

    29 Jan 2024 ,
  • Trade unions / TUC launches fake ‘campaign to defend the right to strike’

    A campaign most workers are unaware of, aimed not at overturning anti-worker legislation but at garnering votes for the perfidious Labour party.

    26 Jan 2024 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange: Day X is here

    The case of Julian Assange reveals how little concern the bourgeoisie really has for ‘human rights’ and ‘civil liberties’.

    22 Jan 2024 , Stella Assange
  • Civil liberties / Jury unanimously acquits Palestine Action’s Balfour 2 who defaced statue

    Exposing the colonial legacy of Balfour, and Britain’s continued complicity in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.

    11 Jan 2024 , Lalkar
  • Palestine / Zionist slaughter of Palestinians will only hasten the demise of Israel

    With 22,000 murdered and 52,000 wounded so far, the mass murder of civilians in Gaza has achieved nothing except the further weakening of the genocidaires.

    29 Dec 2023 , Lalkar
  • Greece / Solidarity with Greek comrades under attack for anti-imperialist activities!

    Why did fascist thugs choose the eve of our Platform conference to issue threats to a member of the organising team?

    13 Dec 2023 ,
  • Korea / Still fighting for Korea’s liberation: An interview with Comrade Ahn Hak-sop

    ‘In 1952, I came here to liberate the southern half of the peninsula, and I need to stay here and continue that struggle.’

    8 Dec 2023 , Liberation School
  • Civil liberties / Get ready for Day X: Julian Assange must be freed!

    British judges have shown themselves only too ready to allow our ‘justice system’ to be used to persecute an innocent man for the ‘crime’ of real journalism.

    6 Dec 2023 ,
  • Palestine / Two ‘British’ positions on Palestine

    The latest wave of Israeli violence was unleashed in a frenzy of impotent but brutal rage after Palestinian resistance launched its historic Al-Aqsa Flood battle.

    14 Nov 2023 , Lalkar
  • Education / British government stifles school debate on Gaza

    As the imperialists continue their support for the ongoing genocide in Gaza, schools are urged to play their part in complying with the murderous narrative.

    13 Nov 2023 , Electronic Intifada
  • Canada / Association of United Ukrainian Canadians condemns honouring of Nazis

    The fascist-aligned section is vocal and prominent, but Yaroslav Hunka does not represent all Canadians of Ukrainian origin.

    15 Oct 2023 ,
  • Civil liberties / Irish republicans challenge sinister ‘debanking’ strategy

    ‘We will have your house; if you keep going, we will have your car, we will have your kids, we will have your benefits and we will put you in jail.’

    12 Aug 2023 ,
  • Ireland / End internment of Irish republicans now

    Why are Irish republicans still being imprisoned without charge by British courts, 25 years after the initiation of the peace process?

    4 Aug 2023 , Republican News
  • Civil liberties / France in flames after yet another racist police murder

    The divide between French ‘natives’ and ‘immigrants’ is constantly exacerbated in order to keep workers from making common cause against their rulers.

    2 Aug 2023 , Lalkar
  • Ireland / Landmark judgment finds murdered Irish teen was blameless

    The wheels of justice? War crimes committed by the British occupiers in northern Ireland fifty years ago are only now being officially acknowledged.

    1 Aug 2023 , Irish Republican News
  • Civil liberties / Increasing state repression and the ‘non-personing’ of Nigel Farage

    The targeting of such a pro-imperialist figure is a warning to all those who might engage in acts of dissent against the establishment.

    25 Jul 2023 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Public Order Act: latest anti-worker legislation to outlaw protests and strikes

    Human rights in Britain? What human rights?

    11 Jul 2023 , Lalkar
  • Trade unions / Model motion: Defy the anti-trade union laws

    Within the current legal framework, workers’ right to strike in Britain has been all but annulled. This situation must be reversed by means of collective action.

    4 Jun 2023 ,
  • Trade unions / Defy the anti-trade union laws!

    It is time we turned the struggle for decent wages into a struggle for socialism.

    22 May 2023 , Proletarian
  • Education / Support our teachers; save our schools!

    It is not only their present ability to exist that Britain’s teachers are fighting for, but our children’s future.

    14 Mar 2023 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Sound and fury: the hollowness of the woke v anti-woke debate

    Workers have no interest in perpetuating bourgeois-incited culture wars. What we need is a clear understanding of how these harmful ideas destroy our ability to unify.

    8 Mar 2023 ,
  • Civil liberties / Police officer David Carrick’s campaign of rape: a bad apple or a rotten barrel?

    News that the Met will now reopen the cases of a thousand officer complaints would seem to answer the question.

    17 Feb 2023 , Proletarian
  • Czech Republic / Medieval inquisition returns to Europe as historical truth-tellers are put on trial

    Josef Skála and two other scholars are being prosecuted in Prague, charged with ‘expressing doubts’ about who perpetrated the Katyn massacre.

    31 Jan 2023 , Marx 21
  • Trade unions / TUC directs its members’ anger into more meaningless busywork

    An email campaign to reverse anti-union laws? Really?

    30 Jan 2023 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Minimum Service Bill is the latest salvo in the class war against workers

    No cooperation with union-busting anti-strike laws! 

    27 Jan 2023 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Communists condemn cancellation of WPB anti-Nato meeting by Conway Hall

    The Conway Hall Ethical Society’s craven submission to ‘online intimidation’ gives the lie to its claim to uphold free speech.

    23 Jan 2023 ,
  • Civil liberties / Joti Brar on RT: New laws on strikes and protests aim to contain workers’ anger

    Instead of helping workers weather the inflation crisis, our rulers are preparing to suppress any future rebellion.

    16 Jan 2023 , Proletarian TV
  • China / Covid: China changes gear

    As the People’s Republic moves on from the era of zero-Covid, western media are desperate to portray its decision as a sign of failure.

    15 Jan 2023 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Free Julian Assange!

    The chilling persecution of honest journalism has only highlighted the unfreedom of bourgeois society and the lies and complicity of imperialist corporate media.

    5 Oct 2022 ,
  • Ukraine / Free Ukraine’s Kononovich brothers, jailed communist youth!

    As part of its suppression of political activity, the Ukrainian stooge regime has banned communist organisations and imprisoned their leaders.

    19 Sep 2022 ,
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange must be freed – a plea from his wife Stella Moris

    This battle is not to only save a single journalist from gross injustice but to defend the right of all workers to access and speak the truth.

    29 Jul 2022 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / ‘Bill of shame’ spits in the face of ‘Troubles’ victims

    British attempts to whitewash war crimes in Ireland make clear once again: there will be no ‘reconciliation’ until reunification.

    25 Jul 2022 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Assange, the 21st-century inquisition

    It is not one man who is on trial, but the people’s right to access meaningful and reliable information.

    18 May 2022 , Lalkar
  • Divide and rule / Monstrous plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda

    The main target of anti-immigrant rhetoric is the British working class, which remains disunited and powerless when racist lies flourish.

    17 May 2022 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Paltry Partygate fines for Boris and Sunak are a slap in the face for British workers

    The ‘us and them’ reality of British class society has never been clearer.

    25 Apr 2022 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Iniquitous new borders bill aims to make citizenship-stripping routine

    Are we entering a time where any outspoken opponent of the present system can be rendered stateless and deported?

    19 Mar 2022 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Chris Mullin: Is another honest journalist about to be put behind bars?

    West Midlands police are still pursuing a vendetta against the veteran reporter who revealed their corruption and incompetence.

    4 Mar 2022 , Proletarian
  • Canada / Solidarity with the Freedom Convoy of Canada

    The arteries of the Canadian capital are clogged to the point where Canada’s whole rotten capitalist system is having a heart attack.

    23 Feb 2022 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange loses extradition appeal; British ‘justice’ exposed to the world

    On the insincere assurances of US lawyers, a British court has decreed that it would be safe for Mr Assange to be handed over to their country’s tender mercies.

    13 Jan 2022 , Lalkar
  • Education / No academic freedom to support Palestine

    Bristol academic sacked for refusing to bow to the diktat of the zionist world lobby.

    18 Dec 2021 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Imperialism’s global conspiracy against Julian Assange

    Corporate media maintain their silence as the persecuted journalist and publisher remains behind bars, though convicted of no crime.

    10 Dec 2021 , Lalkar
  • Education / Prof David Miller and the zionist campaign to crush dissent on campuses

    The list of truths that we are being told we must not utter in public spaces continues to grow, but truth has a way of winning out.

    12 Nov 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Anglo-American plot to assassinate Julian Assange on London’s streets

    Will the authorities now be forced to cease their decade-long persecution of the world’s most celebrated journalist?

    13 Oct 2021 , Proletarian
  • Ecuador / Chevron’s disgraceful persecution of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger

    Instead of paying billions in damages owed for horrific pollution of Ecuador’s rainforest, the oil giant is hounding and demonising its accusers.

    13 Sep 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray: British state locks up elderly journalist on spurious charges

    In Britain today, any journalist who becomes an inconvenience to the ruling class can expect to be ruthlessly targeted.

    9 Sep 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Reform of the Secrets Act is another brick in the wall

    While the ‘opposition’ sits on its hands, the ruling class is rolling out more legislation designed to suppress working-class discontent.

    5 Aug 2021 , Proletarian
  • USA / Whistleblower Daniel Hale sentenced to 45 months in US prison for drone leak

    ‘I am here because I stole something that was never mine to take – precious human life.’

    29 Jul 2021 , The Intercept
  • Civil liberties / Metropolitan police branded ‘institutionally corrupt’

    An unsolved murder and a persistent family have laid bare a catalogue of dishonest dealings by police stretching out over decades.

    28 Jun 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Workers Party statement: No to Covid passports

    There is no medical justification for the imposition of such documents; they are not aimed at protecting our health but at the surveillance and control of workers.

    31 May 2021 ,
  • Civil liberties / Kill the Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill!

    A marked increase in police violence against workers has already been in evidence even before the new policing bill has passed into law.

    24 May 2021 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Police Bill: capitalism gears up for the class struggles to come

    Our rulers are in a hurry to pass new laws while the excuse of Covid lingers and before workers have woken up to the true scale of the present economic crisis.

    7 Apr 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / BLM, XR: No reds under the bed … yet

    Our rulers are nervous that workers may start to put up really meaningful resistance to imperialist domination, despoliation and war.

    2 Apr 2021 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Shrewsbury 24: Justice delayed is justice denied

    Workers must start to organise themselves so as to be able to demand justice now – social justice for all.

    30 Mar 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Mairead Maguire nominates Assange, Manning, Snowden for Nobel peace prize

    Irish peace prize winner explains how the bravery of these three whistleblowers inspires peace-loving workers everywhere.

    24 Feb 2021 , Lalkar
  • Media / Big Tech and the end of dissent: First they came for Donald Trump

    The useful idiots of the liberal left are cheering while tech giants clamp down ever harder on freedom of speech.

    17 Feb 2021 , Proletarian
  • France / Macron government attempts to suppress exposure of police brutality

    French workers continue to set an example in resisting the encroachments of the powerful upon their rights.

    29 Jan 2021 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange: the persecution continues

    Years of unwarranted imprisonment and torture do not look likely to end any time soon, despite the denial of the US’s extradition claim.

    18 Jan 2021 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange victorious, for now

    Judge’s ruling makes it clear that the principles supposedly protecting free speech and honest journalism remain in peril.

    5 Jan 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange extradition trial: Shameful martyrisation continues

    Kafka’s dystopian vision has been brought to life in the heart of the British injustice system.

    22 Dec 2020 , Lalkar
  • Yemen / British soldier arrested for protesting collusion in Saudi’s Yemen war

    ‘I’ve seen enough not to speak out and I’d rather sleep peacefully in a cell than stay silent for a pay cheque.’

    29 Sep 2020 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Media freedom? Show me the MSM journalist opposing the torture of Assange

    11 Sep 2020 ,
  • Civil liberties / Under cover of Covid-19: trial by jury is under attack

    The abolition of workers’ right to a jury trial could be the final nail in the coffin of the justice system in Britain.

    14 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / The Coronavirus Act 2020

    Jumping on the excuse of Covid-19, parliament has rammed through a host of draconian measures unrelated to the health crisis.

    19 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange: The truth will set him free

    Many questions remain to be answered about the conduct of Julian’s defence.

    18 Jun 2020 ,
  • Pay and conditions / Barclays spies on its own staff

    The banking giant is using ‘Big Brother tactics’ to monitor staff and keep their noses to the grindstone.

    6 Mar 2020 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray: Assange’s armoured glass box is an instrument of torture

    ‘They are attempting to make him kill himself – or create the conditions where his death might be explained away as suicide.’

    4 Mar 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 4

    The British state is lying about the validity of the US extradition treaty – and it knows it.

    2 Mar 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 3

    The sham show-trial at Woolwich reveals how brazenly our rulers will flout their own rules when it suits them to do so.

    1 Mar 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 2

    It has been demonstrably proved in court that the US knows its own charges against Assange are untrue.

    1 Mar 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 1

    This shameful show trial is being exposed by one of the few people in the court who is prepared to tell the truth to the outside world.

    29 Feb 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / John Pilger: Julian Assange must be freed, not betrayed

    Australia and Britain are helping to get the WikiLeaks editor extradited to the USA, which is preparing a lifetime of torture for the ‘crime’ of exposing the truth.

    22 Feb 2020 , JohnPilger.com
  • Civil liberties / UN: Britain and US guilty of torturing Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning

    This illegal and brutal repression must not be allowed to succeed in its aim of terrifying workers into submission.

    7 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / Avtar Jouhl: lifelong class fighter against racism

    Comrade Avtar reflects on a life of struggle in the IWA and the trade unions from the 1950s to the 1990s.

    10 Nov 2019 , International Socialist
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange in court: unmistakable signs of torture

    Unless Julian is released shortly he will be destroyed. If the state can do this, then who is next?

    28 Oct 2019 , Craig Murray
  • USA / US workers force child migrant concentration camp to close

    Homeware staff strike against their employers’ profiting from privatised detention camps.

    14 Aug 2019 ,
  • Divide and rule / Racial profiling revealed in Home Office visa processing

    African academics are routinely being denied entry to attend conferences and seminars in Britain.

    10 Aug 2019 ,
  • Housing / Right-to-rent and work checks promote racism and victimise the most vulnerable

    Forcing landlords and employers to check the immigration status of tenants and employees has led to a surge in homelessness among non-white workers in Britain.

    11 Jun 2019 ,
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange facing extradition to the United States

    Why is the WikiLeaks founder being targeted now, and what happens next?

    23 May 2019 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning!

    Injustice and oppression will never be defeated unless at every turn they are resolutely resisted, whatever the cost.

    23 Apr 2019 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Branding the wage slaves

    British companies are starting to experiment with microchipping their staff as a way of keeping tabs on their movements.

    24 Dec 2018 ,
  • Divide and rule / Prison report reveals truth about Britain’s dreadful concentration camps

    If one can judge a society by how it treats its prisoners, British imperialism continues to plumb new depths of baseness and depravity.

    3 Sep 2018 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Editorial: Our demands

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • France / French elections produce … more of the same!

    An opportunity further to upset the applecart in Europe has been lost, but the imperialists’ glee is likely to be short-lived.

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • Society / Letter: So you want to be a hero?

    A reader puts some pertinent questions to any young person thinking of joining the armed forces.

    1 Apr 2017 , Proletarian
  • British politics / How the scabs were ditched, and other dirty laundry of 1989-90

    The latest release of cabinet papers gives us a further insight into the secret doings of our ruling class.

    1 Dec 2016 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Police lies revealed at Hillsborough; Orgreave must be next

    Inquiry reveals police guilt for 96 unnecessary deaths in Sheffield, and highlights the militarised and anti-worker culture that grew out of the political policing of the miners’ strike five years earlier.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Big Data is watching you: the snoopers’ charter

    Unparalleled levels of intrusive mass surveillance are to be legitimised by the Investigatory Powers Bill.

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / The human cost of prisons for profit

    A Proletarian reader recounts his best friend’s descent into despair and eventual suicide while imprisoned on an indeterminate sentence. This article has been previously published in the Morning Star.

    1 Oct 2015 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / YOUTH UPRISING 2011: Bourgeois ideologues battle for control of the working-class movement

    Protesters under attack from state repression, rabid propaganda and rotten ideology.

    1 Jun 2011 , Proletarian

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  • Anti-terror laws
  • Antisemitism campaign
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  • Justice system
  • Labour party
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  • Anti-imperialism
  • Harpal Brar
  • Jeremy Corbyn
  • NHS
  • Racism and immigration
  • Hezbollah
  • Ansarullah movement
  • Apartheid
  • British imperialism
  • Donald Trump
  • Fascism
  • Gaza
  • Media lies
  • Nakba
  • Nato
  • Non-cooperation
  • Oil and gas
  • United Nations
  • US imperialism
  • Garland Nixon
  • Planned economy
  • Ukraine war

Civil liberties video

  • Civil liberties / Joti Brar and Garland Nixon: Palestine repression, Ukraine war, ep9

    Britain sees its plummeting freedom of expression hit a new low as protestors are arrested, whilst Moscow survives an attack.

    24 Dec 2024, Proletarian TV
  • British politics / Starmer promises to ‘fix’ Britain – with racism, repression, austerity and war

    What really lies behind Sir Keir’s stirring rhetoric about ‘saving the NHS’ and ‘rebuilding the country’ while ‘restoring law and order’?

    9 Sep 2024,
  • British politics / The Communists’ message for May Day 2024: Where are the unions

    While Assange languishes in prison, the Gaza genocide continues and workers are hit by a cost of living crisis, Britain’s unions are essentially inactive.

    4 Jun 2024,
  • World TV / Joti Brar and Garland Nixon: Policing Palestine protestors, episode 4

    The open police repression of pro-Palestinian protestors in the imperialist bloc is a telling sign of the importance of anti-imperialist action for Palestine.

    4 Mar 2024, Proletarian TV
  • Civil liberties / Communist party rally outside the Royal Courts of Justice for Julian Assange

  • Civil liberties / Zionism cannot be negotiated with – it must be defeated!

  • Civil liberties / British terrorist state persecutes communists on ‘anti-terror’ pretext

  • Civil liberties / Huda Ammori: Why I risked prison to shut Elbit down

  • Civil liberties / Free the Elbit Seven! No cooperation with Israeli war crimes!

  • Palestine / Comrade Ranjeet talks to Press TV about his arrest and the fight against zionism

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