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The Monitoring Group’s National Coordinator and founder Suresh Grover speaks on LBC radio about the divisive rhetoric used by leading politicians to demonise migrants and people of colour.
Defiance: How South Asians Fought Back Against the Fascists
In the 1970s, British South Asians faced a vicious tidal wave of racism from street gangs and the state. A new series details how they fought back — for themselves and those that came after them, writes Taj Ali for the Tribune journal: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2024/04/defiance-how-south-asians-fought-back-against-the-fascists
“I watched police officers shoot my mum, Cherry Groce. Forty years on the pain is still raw”
Following the tragic wrongful shooting of his mother and the 1985 Brixton Uprisings that followed, Lee Lawrence embarked on a painful journey for justice — and rebuilding trust that demands police accountability and an understanding of Black community trauma. Here, he shares that journey: https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2025/04/26/cherry-groce/
Read the press statement about the Kashmir killings from the Asian Defiance organisation: https/asiandefiance
“Act of war”: What happened in Kashmir attack that killed 26 tourists?
The deadliest attack on tourists in Kashmir since 2000 has prompted fears of Indian retaliation against Pakistan.
Read the full report by Al Jazeera.com: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/23/act-of-war-what-happened-in-kashmir-attack-that-killed-26-tourists
Israel must end “cruel collective punishment” in Gaza, urges UN relief chief
In a powerful statement this week (April 29, 2025) Tom Fletcher, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, condemned Israel’s decision to halt humanitarian assistance as a “cruel collective punishment” of the Palestinian population.
Read the full story here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/05/1162806
Leader of the Reform UK party, Nigel Farage MP
Reform UK is main opposition party, Nigel Farage claims after election wins
Nigel Farage has claimed Reform UK has overtaken the Conservatives as the main party of opposition after his party narrowly won a byelection, a mayoralty and more than a dozen council seats in early results on Friday (May 2, 2025).
The Reform leader said the results from Runcorn and Helsby, Greater Lincolnshire and a handful of local elections around the country showed his party should now be taken seriously as a prospective party of government.
Read Political Correspondent Kiran Stacey’s piece for The Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/02/reform-uk-is-main-opposition-party-nigel-farage-claims-after-election-wins
President Donald Trump meets South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House, May 21, 2025, in Washington
Outrage grows over Trump's Oval Office ambush of South Africa's President
Outrage continued to mount after United States President Donald Trump falsely accused South African President Cyril Ramaphosa of the systematic killing of white farmers.
President Trump dimmed the lights of the Oval Office to play a video of left-wing politician Julius Malema chanting an old anti-apartheid song that includes the lyrics “kill the farmer.”
Read the full story here: https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/outrage-grows-over-trumps-oval-office-ambush-south-africas-president
Image: Houssem Bouaza on Unsplash
Palestine Action is part of Britain’s proud history of protest. Proscribing it is an assault on democracy
The facts are not disputed. On 20 June, two activists spray-painted two RAF Voyager aircraft at Brize Norton, where flights regularly leave for RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. No person inside the compound was harmed. At worst, these actions may amount to offences around criminal damage and trespass. The former justice secretary Lord Falconer has stated that the action at Brize Norton would not justify outlawing the group.
But that is exactly what is happening writes Suresh Grover for The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/29/palestine-action-protest-proscribing-assault-democracy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other