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It’s urgent to build real resistance to this government’s poisonous agenda and develop confidence in the anti-racist movement, says WEYMAN BENNETT
People take part in a protest outside Downing Street in Westminster, London, calling on the Government to scrap the Nationalities and Borders Bill

THIS week, two of the most reactionary pieces of legislation to come before the House of Commons since the second world war were being debated.

The Policing Bill and the anti-refugee Nationality and Borders Bill (NBB) were being heard and discussed as the truth emerged about the “party that never was” at Downing Street last Christmas.

While an institutionally racist (and sexist) police force was being given extraordinary new powers to limit protest and attack the rights of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, the Policing Bill also targets Black Lives Matter activists.

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