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The election night in 1966 when I saw David Winnick win

DAVID WHITE pays tribute to the former Croydon Labour MP, David Winnick, who has died, aged 92 David Winnick, who has died this week, aged 92, served as a Croydon Labour MP in the 1960s. The very first election count … Continue reading

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Judges rule Labour’s Palestine Action ban ‘disproportionate’

Croydon-based campaigners against the genocide in Gaza and Britain’s role in arming the Israeli Defence Force were vindicated today when High Court judges issued a ruling that said that the Home Secretary’s ban on Palestine Action was unlawful. The Palestine … Continue reading

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Palestine Action prisoner Hoxha ends hunger strike at 58 days

Teuta Hoxha, the Palestine Action prisoner from Croydon, has ended her hunger strike after 58 days. The decision to pause the hunger strike was taken on Monday, with Hoxha’s physical condition weakened so significantly that, according to supporters, she is … Continue reading

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MP Jones putting her Croydon constituents on remote control

A Croydon MP who receives almost £200,000 per year, to pay for aides and a constituency office, has her phone staffed for just four hours each week. WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, on how at least one of Croydon’s well-funded MPs … Continue reading

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Croydon TUC calls on MP to support Palestine hunger striker

‘Detention without trial for long periods is contrary to the basic notions of English Law.’ But Labour’s authoritarian attacks on freedom of speech and the right to protest continue as local MP ignores plight of constituent Teuta Hoxha, from Croydon, … Continue reading

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Judicial Review will determine whether we have free speech

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Since he was arrested, twice, on terrorism charges simply for expressing an opinion, campaigner DAVID WHITE, pictured right, has been out on bail. Today he and thousands of others get their days in court  “You are being arrested … Continue reading

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The Fraud: how Reed’s Labour spied on Croydon councillors

Three years ago, Al Jazeera broadcast a series of films, called The Labour Files, based on information gleaned from one of the biggest data leaks in history. One episode was devoted to events that took place in Croydon in early … Continue reading

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Croydon activists among 890 arrests for ‘terrorism’ offences

Activists from Croydon and neighbouring south London boroughs were among the hundreds of futile arrests made by the Metropolitan Police at Westminster on Saturday, acting on the orders of the Labour government to suppress free speech while real crimes were … Continue reading

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Your Party meeting shows a movement in need of direction

What last night’s first meeting in Croydon of the new Your Party showed is that it has a long way to go before it can even begin to field election candidates and harness the energy of its near-1million supporters, reports … Continue reading

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Corbyn’s new party to stage first public event in Croydon

Big numbers, and some big figures from Croydon politics, are expected at Ruskin House next Tuesday, reports Political Editor WALTER CRONXITE Anyone wanting to get themselves a seat had better turn up early at Ruskin House next Tuesday, when the … Continue reading

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Labour attack on freedom of speech continues at Gaza protest

Police say they arrested 365 people in Westminster today. These included a blind man in a wheelchair, former NHS nurses and Quakers, all for holding up signs saying ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action’. But no one at the … Continue reading

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Our four MPs are doing nothing to try to stop carnage in Gaza

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Are our borough’s four MPs doing the ‘right thing’? DAVID WHITE doesn’t think so “Israel has been genociding the Palestinians for months now. The point is why no one stops the carnage. This is the question” These words … Continue reading

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White’s Labour expulsion overturned: ‘Process is corrupt’

After three years, the Labour Party has overturned its expulsion of life-long member David White over disputed allegations of anti-semitism on grounds of “insufficient evidence”. “It’s another admission that the Labour NEC under Secretary General David Evans was operating a … Continue reading

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Union official who exposed IRA past of Tory councillor has died

DAVID WHITE offers his appreciation of the life and work of Dr Peter Latham, who has died, aged 83 I was sorry to hear of the death last month of Dr Peter Latham, the prominent sociologist, author, political activist and … Continue reading

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People power! Reed’s ‘sinister’ complaint is dropped by police

EXCLUSIVE: Zionist-supporting Labour front-bencher claimed he feared for his life when a small group of grannies and mums staged a protest calling for an end of the killing in Gaza. By STEVEN DOWNES Two pensioners from Croydon who were called … Continue reading

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21% Council Tax hike but Perry has a pay rise for his mates

There’s a protest planned outside Croydon Town Hall tomorrow for the first of two council budget meetings You pay more. You get less. Long-suffering residents will be protesting outside Croydon Town Hall tomorrow evening, and again the following Wednesday, March … Continue reading

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London’s capital celebration of 50 years of transport Freedom

Former GLC councillor DAVID WHITE, pictured right, looks back to a scheme that revolutionised travel for generations of Londoners and ahead to a 50th birthday event this weekend It is 50 years since the Freedom Pass transformed getting around the … Continue reading

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Calls for Electoral Commission to intervene on Croydon votes

CROYDON IN CRISIS: The council cannot be trusted to run elections in the borough, according to senior political officials. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES An experienced election agent for the Labour Party has effectively declared that he has no confidence in … Continue reading

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Council Tax campaign appeals to Stormzy: Save Croydon!

A people’s protest is planned outside Croydon Town Hall tonight, with the organisers appealing to Brit award-winning rapper Stormzy to join them in their fight against unfair Council Tax hikes and tens of millions of pounds of additional cuts to … Continue reading

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Labour councillor subject to complaint over ethics breaches

#THELABOURFILES: Former party official has called for member of council’s ethics committee to be disqualified as a councillor over their role in handling documents stolen in a malicious internet hack attack. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Clive Fraser, the controversial Labour … Continue reading

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Croydon 2022 – a review of the year, Inside Croydon-style

Three Prime Ministers and a Funeral… 2022 was busy on the news front, even by recent standards. Here in deepest south London, the stories just kept coming, some part of a narrative thread which ran throughout the year – such … Continue reading

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#TheLabourFiles screening and Q&A, Ruskin House, Nov 23

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#TheLabourFiles: Source of hacked data worked for Evans

Further links to the Labour Party’s General Secretary have been confirmed since Al Jazeera broadcast The Spying Game documentary. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Further investigations since Al Jazeera broadcast their documentary “The Spying Game” have discovered that the person who … Continue reading

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#TheLabourFiles: It’s long past time to clean-up the Party

Former Labour staffer ANDREW FISHER reflects on what Al Jazeera’s series The Labour Files revealed about his former employers and the party of which he has been a member for 26 years “Poly-ticks”, according to Rowan Atkinson’s Edmund Blackadder, is … Continue reading

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#TheLabourFiles: MP Reed, Evans and the Croydon connection

By STEVEN DOWNES, Editor, Inside Croydon More than six months in the making, Al Jazeera’s investigations unit last night released the fourth part of their documentary series The Labour Files, this episode called “The Spying Game”, a detailed report on … Continue reading

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