BBC Confirms its licence has not been revoked in Bolivia, unlike teleSUR’s

27 November 2019|Mohamed Elmaazi

While news outlets which have reported critically of the ongoing coup in Boliva have been targeted by the coup government and its supporters, the BBC, which is seen as more sympathetic to coup, remains unscathed for now.

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UK Mainstream Media Ignore History of ‘Brutal Removal’ of Islanders From Chagos Islands

23 November 2019|Sputnik International|MohamedElmaazi

When discussing the ongoing saga of the UK and the Chagos Islands, mainstream media often miss the history of how the UK government ruthlessly expelled the inhabitants of the Indian Ocean islands in the 1960s and 1970s. A story which award winning investigative Journalist John Pilger told in his 2004 documentary “Stealing A Naton”.

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Self-Harm and Deaths on the Rise in Prisons and Under Probation in England and Wales

4 November 2019|Sputnik International|Mohamed Elmaazi

The UK Ministry of Justice has released its latest statistics which show an alarming rise in self-harm and suicides among those under control of the prison and probation services.

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Historic immigration vote at Labour Conference represents sea change in attitudes among UK labour movement

02 October 2019|The Interregnum and Pressenza|Mohamed Elmaazi

Mohamed Elmaazi examines how the Labour Party Conference’s historic pledges on immigration mark a significant departure from the racism and xenophobia which was deeply entrenched in parts of the UK labour movement over the past century.

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UK Labour Party’s Historic Party Platform Developments

28 September 2019|Sputnik International|Mohamed Elmaazi with Eugene Puryear and Bob Schlehuber

Mohamed Elmaazi joined Eugene Puryar and Bob Schlehuber to discuss some of the more significant developments to come out of the Labour Party Conference, just completed in the coastal city of Brighton, England. This includes the historic pledges to adopt humane polices towards immigrants, reversing – in many ways – decades long hostility and racism directed by segments of the UK labour movement towards immigrants and people of colour.

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Labour pledges to abolish immigration detention centres in historic conference vote

25 September 2019|The Canary|Mohamed Elmaazi

On the last day of the Labour Party conference in Brighton delegates from around the country, representing both unions and Constituency Labour Party’s (CLPs), voted unanimously to support the most radical break in immigration policy in the Labour movement’s history.

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Prime Minister defeated in late night Parliamentary vote

3 September 2019|The Interregnum|Mohamed Elmaazi

In a 328 vote to 302 the a coalition of SNP, Labour Party, Liberal Democrat, and Conservative Party MPs striped the executive of its normal power to dictate what is to be debated tomorrow and granting to parliament the ability to debate Hillary Ben MP’s proposed Brexit bill.

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