Asked if this was a “dark step” to limit the fundamental right to protest, UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood replied that having a freedom “doesn’t mean you have to use it at every moment of every day”.

London’s Metropolitan Police arrested another 492 people over the weekend after a protest Saturday in Trafalgar Square, as the Starmer government accelerated its crackdown on opposition to the Gaza genocide.

The entirely peaceful protest was held to oppose the proscription of Palestine Action. It was organised by Defend Our Juries and attended by over 1,000 people. Of the arrests, 488 were for holding up signs declaring, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”.

  • Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    5013·
    1 day ago

    I don’t support the UK crackdown on peaceful protesters, but this wsws.org is a de-facto Chinese propaganda medium. That’s not a good source.

    • Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.comEnglish
      163·
      1 day ago

      It’s a good source if it reports on the fascist behaviors of the UK government. With this trend, how long do you think western media will be able to report freely on this stuff?

      • yucandu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        194·
        1 day ago

        Not OP but I found this on wiki:

        The WSWS described the 2014 Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine as a coup backed by the United States and Germany in which the Ukrainian far-right coalition of organizations Right Sector and political party Svoboda would have played a “crucial role”.[13] Furthermore, the WSWS criticized the coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014 by the majority of German media outlets, describing it was one-sided and “anti-Russian propaganda”. Thus, leading outlets such as Der Spiegel and Die Zeit would have been clamouring for military action against Russia and attacking the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, “who is portrayed as a new Hitler and an aggressor”.[14]

        About the shootdown of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014, the WSWS stated that “Washington has presented not one shred of evidence that Flight MH17 was brought down by a missile either fired by the anti-Kiev forces or supplied by Moscow”. Regarding the assassination of Boris Nemtsov in 2015, David North wrote for the WSWS that he was wondering if the United States was planning a coup to replace Putin with a “Western-friendly oligarch”.[15] On February 22, 2022 the WSWS issued a statement opposing Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, calling for the unity of Russian and Ukrainian workers against both Putin and NATO.[16]

        Is it so hard to find a socialist organisation that isn’t just simple contrarians?

        • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
          11·
          1 day ago

          I guess they at least oppose the (2022) Russian invasion of Ukraine so they’re not completely bonkers. Not Chinese propaganda level, but still disappointing.

          • Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            62·
            20 hours ago

            I guess they at least oppose the (2022) Russian invasion of Ukraine so they’re not completely bonkers. Not Chinese propaganda level, but still disappointing.

            They frequently portray Ukraine as an aggressor in its war, rather than Russia (they call the Kursk incursion of Ukraine the “imperialist-backed incursion of Russia”, and they write that Taiwan’s ruling party DPP “must renounce its confrontational approach to China” in an obvious disconnection from reality that Russia started the war in Ukraine, and China is becoming increasingly aggressive against Taiwan including threats of an military invasion - Source, but you’ll find ample evidence that this site is conveying authoritarian talking points in practically all its reports, and barely properly citing a source for their claims).

            This is outright Chinese propaganda.