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  • Figure 2 – Credit: Matt Kenard / Declassified 2023

    The urgency of abolishing Britain’s colonial bases in Cyprus

    As the Gaza Freedom Flotilla approached Palestinian waters, a British spy flight took off from a British military base on Cyprus to surveil Gaza. Despite the recent narrative shift on relations with Israel, Britain remains deeply involved in the genocide of Palestinians, its efforts centred around its RAF Akrotiri military base on Cyprus, using it to launch these spy flights, which send intelligence, including targeting data, directly to the Israeli military.

  • A British soldier kicks anti-colonial demonstrators in Yemen, 1967. Keir Starmer bombed the country last month. (Photo: AP / Alamy)

    The Empire never died

    The British Empire is still with us, in the UK’s island outposts and military bases, in the plunder of other countries’ resources, and in UK officials’ imperial mindset.