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states and within EU states (as the UK is already planning) and to sea and land travel too (as the UK is already planning). 6 A Sivanandan, ‘New circuits of imperialism’, Race & Class (Vol 30, no. 4, 1989).   7 A Sivanandan, ‘Racism in the age of globalisation’, speech to the third annual Claudia Jones

Memorial Lecture, October 2004, . 8 EU governments to give law enforcement agencies access to all communications data,

www.statewatch.org/news/2001/may/03Aenfopol.htm>, and see Statewatch’s Observatory on The EU-FBI telecommunications surveillance system, . 9 Note from the European Commission’s Directorate B, UnitB/1 Police and Customs Cooperation

Working Party, held 13–14 October 1999. 10 The ‘war on freedom and democracy’, an analysis of the effects on civil liberties and demo-

cratic culture in the EU by Tony Bunyan (September 2002), . 11 See: Action on Rights for Children, . 12 Commission Green Paper on detection technologies in the work of law enforcement, customs and other security authorities COM(2006) 474 final; Statewatch Analysis: Detection technologies and democracy, September 2006, Tony Bunyan. 13 The ‘principle of availability’ by Tony Bunyan (December 2006),

.org/analyses/no-59-p-of-a-art.pdf>. 14 ‘Scoreboard’ on post-Madrid counter-terrorism plans (March 2004),

.org/analyses/no-37-scoreboard-eu-plan.pdf>. 15 On two major issues – mandatory data retention and the fingerprinting of everyone for pass-

ports and ID cards – the EU is ahead of the US. 16 UK: ASBOwatch, . 17 This usually leads to mountains of unrequested letters, flyers, emails and phone calls to get us to buy more of their goods. 18 See SWIFT documentation:

agreement.htm>. 19 In 2008, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that this practice was unlawful. However,

the UK government is proposing to still keep people’s DNA for up to twelve years. 20 ‘Cultural cleansing’, European Race Bulletin (No. 62, Winter 2008). 21 Greece: 5,432 immigrants questioned in massive security sweep in July–August 2005 at request of MI6, . 22 See Liz Fekete, Integration, Islamophobia and civil rights in Europe (London, Institute of Race

Relations, 2008), in particular A. Sivanandan’s preface. 23 UK: Stop & search: Ethnic injustice continues unabated,

uk-stop-and-search-2005.pdf>. 24 Wilton Park is a government sponsored thinktank. Wilton Park paper 120, HMSO, 1996. 25 Tony Bunyan, ‘While Europe sleeps’, . 26 ‘Democracy’ in the EU (and often nationally too) is defined as ‘representative democracy’

which, in my view, is not a political theory but a description of reality. 27 Letter to the Guardian, Dr Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet (14 December 2008).