Targeting Muslims under anti-terror laws freezes intellectual enquiry and needs to be opposed by all radicals, oppositionalists, and leftwingers, urges Michael Copestake (first published in the Weekly Worker) Running in parallel with the government’s revamped ‘Prevent’ strategy for managing parts of the British Muslim community through its religious and community organisations (under ...
Abolish MI5 and the whole secret state, writes James Turley Binyam Mohamed is one of the many victims of the state’s ‘war on terrorism’ since the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington in 2001. Mohamed, an Ethiopian-born British resident, was released from the American interrogation camp at Guantanamo Bay after seven years imprisonment. He had ...
This month has seen the implementation of Home Office plans to make foreign students carry biometric ID cards and force lecturers to keep registers of their attendance. This has been framed as a response to the scandal over the 'bogus colleges', almost 300 of which were uncovered last year, through which applicants could obtain a ...
There have been renewed attempts by the government to get universities to spy and report on ‘suspicious' students. But is the NUS ‘no platform' policy the right way forward? By Dave Isaacson A year and a half ago I wrote an article for the first edition of Communist Student entitled ‘Defend Muslims!' It was a response ...
All democrats and socialists should fight against the government’s plans to encourage university staff spy on “Asian-looking” or muslim students, says David Isaacson The leaked document from the department for education and skills proposing that university staff spy on “Asian-looking” or muslim students and inform special branch of anyone who might be involved in islamic extremism ...