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Birkbeck College has let itself down badly in surrendering to threats by Britain First racist boneheads against this weekend’s Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) conference on Islamophobia.
The IHRC has succeeded in finding a new venue, which is positive, but this does not absolve the University of London of the charge of knuckling under to far-right Islamophobic demands with menaces.
The college took its decision without any discussion with either staff or students, as Birkbeck Unison joint branch secretary Steven Ellis confirmed.
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
LYNNE WALSH reports from the Morning Star’s Race, Sex and Class Liberation conference last weekend, which discussed the dangers of incipient fascism and the spiralling drive to war
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports from Parliament Square, where a rally slammed the hypocrisy of allowing Israel to bomb Iran and kill hundreds to stop it developing nuclear weapons — the same weapons Israel secretly has and refuses to explain