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Bert vs the dismantled state
The draconian extension of police powers is disaster capitalism creating a new control framework for the corporate feudalism that will follow Covid-19 — and let them rule over the ruins of a climate-changed world. It's time to hit the streets, writes ALAN SIMPSON
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WE do ourselves no favours by treating the current Policing Bill just as an outrageous assault on a public right to protest. Of course it is — but the violence targeted towards the police in Bristol (and the preceding violence by police themselves towards peaceful protesters) masks the scale of the assault on civil liberties currently underway. It is this bigger picture that should worry us most.
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