Democracies crackdown on freedom of speech – Garland Nixon & Joti Brar, ep 58

Reproduced from ‪@garlandn‬ with thanks. • IMPERIALISM: DECADENT & DOOMED W/JOTI BRAR... Last week I spoke with Garland Nixon about the growing repression in Britain. What measures has the British state been taking to clamp down on antiwar and anti-zionist speech? What is motivating these moves, and what more does the government have in the pipeline? How many British workers have realised that the old Diplock system – as used to imprison anyone accused of 'terrorism-related' offences in the north of Ireland for decades – is being implemented by the backdoor in Britain right now? How many trade union or antiwar leaders have stood up to oppose the removal of our rights to free speech and a fair trial? How many have even made their members aware of them never mind organising to resist the implementation of these fascistic measures? Right now, fast-track courts are being trialled in one part of the country. And non-jury trials are being introduced for some categories of offences. Both moves have been justified (of course) with the excuse that we 'need to clear the backlog of court cases' and 'deliver justice to the victims of rape and paedophilia'. Crocodile tears for working-class people the government couldn't give a damn about to mask their real agenda. Add it all together and what you have is a set-up whereby it won't be very long before a person who speaks out or acts effectively against zionism and in favour of the resistance to imperialist/zionist genocides and war in the middle east will be: 1. arrested, 2. fast-tracked through a judge-only court straight to jail, and then 3. debanked and kicked out of the country with their citizenship removed (another nice little move that the government is currently experimenting with, without a murmur of opposition from any MP, 'antiwar' or trade union mis-leader). The silence of the 'British left' is shameful but not surprising. As the (fifth) arrest (and suspension from work) of our general secretary Dr Ranjeet Brar (on trumped-up charges of 'inciting racial hatred') demonstrates: Fascism doesn't need jackboots, it just needs a trained and compliant set of enforcers and a pacified populace that has been steadily inured to all the system's outrages. Note to the order-followers: Beware, this was not considered a valid excuse at the Nuremberg tribunals, and it still isn't. (Youtube ( • ‘Democracies’ crackdown on freedom of spee... )) ______________________________________________ Subscribe! Donate! Join us in building a bright future for humanity! http://www.thecommunists.org http://www.lalkar.org http://www.redyouth.org Telegram: https://t.me/thecommunists Twitter: / cpgbml Soundcloud: / proletarianradio Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/theCommunists Odysee: https://odysee.com/@proletariantv:2 Facebook: / cpgbml Online Shop: https://shop.thecommunists.org/ Education Program: Each one teach one! http://www.londonworker.org/education... Join the struggle! https://www.thecommunists.org/join/ Donate: https://www.thecommunists.org/donate/