Nottingham Defy-ID newsletter

Nottingham Defy-ID masthead "resisting ID cards and the British Database State"

Partial online archive of the newsletter of Nottingham Defy-ID, a group opposed to the UK government's proposals to introduce mandatory ID cards in the 2000s.

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Submitted by Fozzie on September 29, 2025

PDFs courtesy of Sparrows Nest Archive, Nottingham.

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Fozzie

2 months ago

Submitted by Fozzie on September 30, 2025

Unfortunately Nottingham Defy-ID's "Stop Using Their Logic!" leaflet is not archived on the wayback machine (and neither are the other PDFs at the group's website) but a fragment is on an old Indymedia post:

In simply asserting that the ID scheme “won't stop the immigrants” we implicitly suggest acceptance of the position that there is an “immigration problem”, playing into the hands of those who seek to stir up anti-immigrant feeling, and subtly feeding into the perception that the country is being flooded by foreigners, and into the vile culture of persecution of immigrants that the government and other political parties are happy to sustain.

It would be good to a have the whole thing on Libcom and other material by the group... if you can help, leave a comment...

R Totale

2 months ago

Submitted by R Totale on September 30, 2025

Yeah, I reckon the Sparrow's Nest is probably your best bet for this stuff.
There's a Nottingham Defy-ID text included here:
https://files.libcom.org/files/organise%2069.pdf
Could also try checking old issues of Black Flag and Freedom from around this time period?