18 March 2020
An article looking at resistance to the UK government's deportation flights programme, in the context of new authoritarian measures being deployed in a variety of contexts.
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"On February 11, a mass deportation flight to Jamaica departed from Doncaster Airport, UK, carrying seventeen people. At the same time the government announced an emergency law to imprison people convicted of “terror offences” for longer, and the Metropolitan police deployed facial recognition technology on the streets of London. In this article, Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke de Noronha analyse the authoritarian context of the new series of charter flights for so-called ‘foreign criminals’, and how to resist it."
UK: End deportation flights!: resisting the new authoritarianism (Verso, link)
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