CLAUDIA WEBBE speaks out against the lethal mechanics of Britain’s culture-war press
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AT THE end of March in a Morning Star article I reported on anti-refugee protests and counter-protests which took place outside a Newquay hotel in Cornwall housing refugees and asylum-seekers.
I recounted the successful nature of the counter-protests organised by anti-racist and refugee-support-groups in the area.
The counter-protesters easily outnumbered the fear- and hate-fuelled protests by about 10 to one, and so effectively prevented the would-be refugee ejectors from getting anywhere near the hotel front to intimidate the residents.
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CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
Listening to our own communities and organising within them holds the key to stopping the advance of Reform UK and other far-right initiatives, posits TONY CONWAY