Unite the Union announced yesterday that the Manchester transport strikes will escalate this week. Over 200 Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) workers just voted to reject an insulting 3.2% pay offer. Meanwhile, ballots are underway for Manchester tram workers. Should they vote to rej...
Democrats took sweeping wins in yesterday’s US election, the first such ‘off-year’ polling of Trump’s second term. Democrat nominee Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, became New York’s first Muslim mayor. Likewise, in Virginia and New Jersey, Democrats Abigail Spanberge...
Polls opened today for the “off year” US elections. These elections will determine the new mayor of New York, along with other issues like redistricting in California and the new state governors for Virginia and New Jersey. In the New York mayoral race, Trump has given his backing to forme...
On 3 November, Your Party co-leader Jeremy Corbyn sent a letter to the Home Office urging a ban on UK arms sales to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He cited Amnesty reports that the UAE is funnelling weapons to the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), thereby fuelling the geno...
On 31 October, Private Eye ran a short column detailing the potential origins of a rumour – breathlessly printed by the Times – that Palestine Action was under investigation for receiving funding from Iran. The Eye alleges that a boss at CMS Strategic, once a lobby group for Israeli arms f...
Far-right Reform UK party is antisemitic; in other news, water wet. We know this will come as a shock to precisely nobody, but Britain’s answer to “what is the Tories weren’t racist enough?” have posted a hideously antisemitic caricature of Green leader Zack Polanski on their social media....
Resident doctors in England have announced that they’ll be walking out on strike next month. They’ll begin the industrial action at 7am on 14 November. The news comes after Labour’s complete failure to bring a credible offer to the table, regarding jobs and pay restoration. England’s BMA (...
Activists disrupted a Kamala Harris event last night, calling out the former US presidential hopeful for her complicity in Israel’s genocide of the people of Palestine. Outside London’s Southbank Centre, watched by a contingent of cops, around 30 protesters waved Palestinian flags and chan...
On Tuesday 21 October, Cameroon police opened fire on a crowd of protesters who were accusing the government of election fraud. The officers killed a teacher from a local primary school, who was reportedly returning home from work. The shooting took place in Garoua city, in the north of Ca...
Today, 23 October, a High Court will weigh evidence in human rights lawyer Fahad Ansari’s judicial review against the home secretary and North Wales Police. The trial focuses on the fact that police detained Ansari under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 at Holyhead Port in August 2024....