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This article was first published in October 2016 on the Reimagining Conflict: Pedagogy, Policy and Arts Group Website This is a link to the original article On April 14th 2022 the Russian invasion of Ukraine had been relentless for 50 days. The world is struggling to come to grips with, and to respond to the […]
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On the 14th April 2022, the UK Government announced plans to transfer all migrants who have been deemed to have entered the UK ‘illegally’ to the East African country of Rwanda. Here they will be processed and if successful in their application for asylum, they will be allowed to stay, in Rwanda, for an indefinite period. On […]
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In 2003, ex-professional wrestler Jim Wilson wrote: “As a onetime wrestler insider … my objective is to show that pro wrestling industry has more appalling abuses than its predetermined outcomes and more seriously harmed victims than its unsuspecting young fans. Pro wrestling’s most contemptible secret is not its bad acting or predetermined outcomes, but its […]
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Geo Maher’s new book, A World Without Police, makes a very straightforward set of claims that, although specific to the US, have universal relevance. Firstly, Maher claims that the police do more harm than they ever purport to ‘prevent’ and that they serve a political, rather than a societal function – namely the enforcement of […]
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Tomorrow, Tuesday the 30th November 2021, Craig Murray will be released from HMP Edinburgh, having served four months of an eight-month prison sentence imposed earlier this year. The remaining four months will be served in the community under licence. Mr Murray, journalist and former British diplomat, was imprisoned after being found guilty of contempt of […]
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The UK Government, the mainstream media and Police Scotland are proudly promoting the fact that COP26 will be one of the biggest police operations ever to take place in the UK. If the thought of 10,000 police on the streets of Glasgow, many carrying weapons, isn’t in itself deeply worrying, then the potential consequences for […]
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The book under review is a new publication by Haymarket Books, a radical, independent, non-profit book publisher based in Chicago. Violent Order is a collection of essays edited by David Correia and Tyler Wall and has a diverse range of authors. It is part of a growing body of work that not only seeks to […]
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Thought-Crime as Pre-Crime and the Expansion of the Police State Recent tragic events in Plymouth involving the shooting of five individuals, as well as the gunman himself Jake Davidson, has raised some important questions about the definition of ‘terrorism’. Women’s groups have long argued that extreme misogyny is a form of terrorism against women. Jake […]
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By stepping back from the immediacy of the role of the Post Office in the criminalisation of hundreds of its Subpostmasters, it becomes apparent that the real problem is the ease with which the entire justice system and its institutions simply defaulted to scandalous levels of injustice, astounding levels of incompetence and widespread corruption. This […]
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Introduction In the true spirit of a radical Glasgow tradition, the organisation Living Rent are currently involved in a campaign of direct action to stop the 300 planned evictions of asylum seekers, by Serco Group PLC. This important campaign has attracted widespread support from a range of activists across the city. Community-minded legal organisations such […]
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