Tag Archives: Genocide

Our Mayor needs to possess vision and global understanding

CROYDON COMMENTARY: As the row over Rowenna Davis’s censored manifesto rumbles on, former Labour councillor JERRY FITZPATRICK, pictured right, explains how international affairs can very properly be matters of local importance  In no particular order, I want the Mayor of … Continue reading

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Labour forces Davis to erase ‘genocide’ from her manifesto

With Croydon’s Town Hall elections to be held one month today, one mayoral candidate has been ordered to censor her election brochure by party bosses, with MP Reed suspected of being behind move. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES  Labour’s candidate for … 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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Record number of old people arrested at Palestine Action demo

Three women from a group of mostly Croydon-based protestors were among the record 532 people arrested at Saturday’s protest in support of Palestine Action and free speech outside the House of Commons. They included one 62-year-old charity worker who said … 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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Labour deselects Jewish Streatham councillor for Gaza support

Councillor Martin Abrams has accused those running Keir Starmer’s party of ‘pursuing their factional obsession against the interests of both the community and the Labour Party’ Martin Abrams, a councillor for Streatham St Leonard’s ward in Lambeth, has been deselected … 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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Greens look to halt council’s investment in global arms trade

Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on a move to bring a more ethical approach to the council’s massive pension fund As global tensions increase over the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with permission being given by the United States for American … Continue reading

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Platform Films’ The Big Lie II, Ruskin House Film Club, June 28

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Starmer’s a no-show for Labour’s secretive Fairfield Halls rally

WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, wasted his morning turning up to see the son of a toolmaker, who swerved at the first sign of awkward questions and so missed out on seeing the mess made of Croydon by his Labour … Continue reading

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Pensioners reported to police for protest on MP’s street

More than two months after a peaceful protest on the road where shadow cabinet member Steve Reed lives, two retired trades union activists have been called in for questioning Someone who lives on the same Upper Norwood street where Labour … Continue reading

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Noisy Gaza protestors send Campbell’s audience scurrying

Warmonger Alastair Campbell was forced to scuttle upstairs as his speaking engagement in Croydon last night descended into disorganised farce. The event was a campaign fund-raiser organised by Labour MP Sarah Jones, although in reality it was just as much … Continue reading

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Labour MP Reed receives written appeal from mosque leaders

It’s a simple enough question. “Members would be keen to understand why you feel that the killing of 10,328 Palestinians, including 4,237 children, can be justified as part of Israel’s self-defence.”

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Only one Croydon MP attended mosques’ emergency meetings

The day after 100,000 marched through the capital protesting against the ethnic cleansing conducted in Gaza, the borough’s Muslim communities staged public meetings to raise their concerns over the situation in the Middle East and rising levels of Islamophobia in … Continue reading

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