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An error occurred while searching, try again later.What was behind Starmer’s ‘tough-cop’ clampdown on Saturday’s Palestine protest?
ANDREW MURRAY considers whether the mass arrest of peaceful protesters was an attempt by the PM to appease his right-wing critics following his crackdown on last August’s race rioters — and a dark omen of the tyrannies to come
SATURDAY must have been a good day to be a criminal on the streets of London.
Because a very sizeable chunk of the police was focused on their main mission — upholding the social order, in this case by criminalising protest against a British-supported genocide.
Supported by the British state that is, not by the people. Telling that truth outside the headquarters of the state broadcaster is now a truth that can’t be handled.
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