“NEUTRALITY”: A TOOL OF SYSTEMATIC MURDER AND OPPRESSION

Posted on May 15, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged al aqsa, allah akbar, Apartheid, conflict, east Jerusalem, featured, Gaza, Hamas, israel, Nablus, Nakba, naqba, neocolonialism, Netanyahu, neutrality, palestine, Palestinians, ramallah, save gaza, settler colonialism, two state, uk, UNICEF, US, West Bank.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

TW: settler colonialism, violence, war

Media outlets are once again decrying the “conflict” between Israel and Palestine, framing Hamas actions as “terrorism”, whilst conversely describing Israel’s as “military action”. At the time of writing, Hamas rockets had killed eight in Israel, while Israeli aerial bombardment of Gaza had killed 122 Palestinians (including 31 children) and injured 830 others. The imbalance in power, resources and media discourse is beyond belief.

BLACK LIVES MATTER: POEMS FOR A NEW WORLD – REVIEW

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #rhodesmustfall, 'Funmi Adewole, african-american, Ambrose Musiyiwa, Arun Jeetoo, black, black lives matter, Black Lives Matter: Poems for a New World, BLM, capitalism, Charles G Lauder, Community, Covid-19, Eric Garner, featured, george floyd, hope, i can't breathe, imperialism, Jim Aitken, Kevin Higgins, key workers, mourning, Nick Allen, pandemic, poetry, police, police abolition, police violence, racism, Samantha Harper-Robins, The UK is not Innocent, uk, US, xenophobia.

By Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya

Content warning: references to police violence, racist violence.

The revival of the Black Lives Matter movement has inspired an array of haunting artistic responses. Black Lives Matter: Poems for a New World, edited by Ambrose Musiyiwa, is no exception. With over 100 contributions from writers of diverse ages and backgrounds, the collection is a poignant exploration of an era of renewed protest and newfound solidarities, against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic.

RESISTANCE AND REBELLION AFTER COVID-19

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged capitalism, class war, Community, coronavirus, Covid-19, direct action, exploitation, featured, freedom, homelessness, Jamese Scott, McDonalds, mutual aid, neoliberalism, NHS, resistance, Sports Direct, Starbucks, strikes, Trump, uk, US, Virgin, Wetherspoons.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

What a time to be alive. As Covid-19 rampages its way across the globe ravaging families and livelihoods, a medical fetish company has had to supply the NHS with equipment because the British government is a lethal combination of neoliberal, greedy and incompetent. While kink is contributing to saving lives, and while many people are faced with the prospect of trying to subsist and keep their families afloat on £94.25 per week sick pay during the lockdown, the British government has been putting together £1 billion of public funding to be doled out to countries who then intend to use this loan to buy British-made bombs and surveillance technology. British people die through negligence, people in other nations die through cataclysmic violence: welcome to Tory Britain.

DYING FOR OIL: DEMILITARISATION IS ESSENTIAL FOR CLIMATE TRANSFORMATION

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Afghanistan, arms, arms trade, climate change, climate crisis, climate emergency, climate justice, conflict, ecocide, environment, iraq, militarisation, US, US DOD, US military, war.

by Lotty Clare

The environmental and climatic impacts of war and conflict have long been silent causalities. Environmental implications throughout the timelines of conflict are huge. From deforestation, mining for metals, use of chemical weapons, ‘scorched’ earth tactics, plunder of resources, and collapse of environmental management systems. Natural resources can cause war, fuel war, and be destroyed by war.

CALL THEM BY THEIR NAME: CONCENTRATION CAMPS

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged American justice system, AOC, CBP, children, concentration camps, deportation, featured, government, Holocaust, ice, Japanese, Jewish, Jews Against Ice, justice, law, Liz Cheney, Never Again, never again action, Neveragainmeans, Oklahoma, police, POW, prison, trafficking, trial, US, USA, violence.

by Tamar Moshkovitz

It’s hard to look at photos of the US Border Patrol Facilities and not be horrified. Cramped and overcrowded rooms, sometimes stuffed with double the maximum capacity; people confined for well over the allowed period; children separated from their parents and thrown in rooms with strangers. And this may not be the worse yet, as a Trump administration lawyer went viral when she argued that the government was not obligated to provide basic hygiene products and beds to immigrant children detained at these facilities.Continue Reading

THE US IMMIGRATION COURT & THE POWER OF ITS JUDGE KING, PART II

Posted on May 26, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged American justice system, corruption, court, deportation, drugs, featured, gang, government, ice, interpreting, Juan José Martínez D'Aubuisson, judge, justice, law, maras, police, prison, traffic, trafficking, translation, trial, tribunal, US, USA, violence.

by Ana M. Fores Tamayo

Continued from Part I here.

When the police in Guerrero, Mexico told this young woman to leave their station, not to report her missing brother or something worse could happen, she realized she could not count on the police’s help to go after the cartels. Luckily, her brother was returned, beaten up but alive. hen she began to get harassed later that year, because she saw a woman abducted and then murdered, when she began to get subsequent death threats, when she began to hear that they were going to take her small son unless she complied to whatever they wanted from her, when they began accosting her sexually — so that she had to leave her job — she knew she could not go to the police: she had learned her lesson that first time.

THE US IMMIGRATION COURT & THE POWER OF ITS JUDGE KING, PART I

Posted on May 24, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged American justice system, court, deportation, drugs, featured, gang, government, ice, Juan José Martínez D'Aubuisson, judge, justice, law, maras, prison, traffic, trafficking, trial, tribunal, US, USA, violence.

by Ana M. Fores Tamayo

I went to an Immigration Merits Hearing at the Dallas Courts recently — the last hearing before an individual or family is deported or given asylum — and this young mother and child from Guerrero, Mexico, lost – as asylum seekers in the majority of these cases do. Although the judge admitted that the young woman “might be in danger,” he said he could do nothing about the consequences such criminal activity affects these poor folk in the countries from which they are escaping. The actions perpetrated in such countries were individual criminal proceedings, not governmental undertakings, and thus the people who suffered individually were not privy to meriting asylum under our government statutes, according to the judge’s ruling.

How can these learned men say such a thing? Continue Reading

ASSANGE ARRESTED: A WARNING TO JOURNALISTS WHO EXPOSE TRUTH ABOUT POWER

Posted on April 18, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged arrest, Chelsea Manning, extradition, featured, free press, free speech, investigative journalism, journalism, Julian Assange, media, US, whistleblowing, WikiLeaks.

by Lotty Clare

Fugitive, criminal or hero? Everyone seems to have an opinion on the sudden arrest of Julian Assange on April 11th, what the broader implications are, and what his fate should be.Continue Reading

U.S. – HANDS OFF VENEZUELA

Posted on March 17, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Bolsonaro, crisis, democracy, foreign policy, global media, Guadio, human rights, hyperinflation, interference, international law, regime change, sanctions, Trump, US, US aid, Venezuela.

by Lotty Clare

Make no mistake, I am not a defender of the current Nicholas Maduro regime in Venezuela, and there is widespread opposition to Maduro in Venezuela: right now, in Caracas, despite a ban on rallies, there are thousands of people protesting the Maduro regime. However, the US intervention in Venezuela is a violation of international law and is not being called out by many media outlets. In January this year Juan Guaidó, who was supported by the US, ignored democratic process and announced that he was president. He was immediately recognised by the US, Canada, UK, Spain, France, Germany, Sweden and Denmark and several right-wing countries in Latin America as the legitimate interim President of Venezuela.

THE NUCLEAR STANDOFF

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged china, geopolitics, India, international relations, Iran, missiles, North Korea, nuclear power, nuclear technology, nuclear weapons, oil, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, US.

by Gunnar Eigener

Amid simmering tensions between India and Pakistan, in parallel with the Trump White House determined to sell nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia and Russia’s illegal missile, which effectively ended the INF Treaty, climate change might not be the nail in the coffin; human society might just jump straight into the furnace.

US

“NEUTRALITY”: A TOOL OF SYSTEMATIC MURDER AND OPPRESSION

by Sarah Edgcumbe

BLACK LIVES MATTER: POEMS FOR A NEW WORLD – REVIEW

By Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya

RESISTANCE AND REBELLION AFTER COVID-19

DYING FOR OIL: DEMILITARISATION IS ESSENTIAL FOR CLIMATE TRANSFORMATION

CALL THEM BY THEIR NAME: CONCENTRATION CAMPS

THE US IMMIGRATION COURT & THE POWER OF ITS JUDGE KING, PART II

THE US IMMIGRATION COURT & THE POWER OF ITS JUDGE KING, PART I

ASSANGE ARRESTED: A WARNING TO JOURNALISTS WHO EXPOSE TRUTH ABOUT POWER

U.S. – HANDS OFF VENEZUELA

THE NUCLEAR STANDOFF

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