Campaigners from Fossil Free London unfurled a banner with a picture of president Trump reading “Climate criminal. War criminal. The only place he’s welcome is The Hague”, inside the grounds of Windsor Castle on Sunday afternoon: This comes days before Trump arrives for his second state vi...
Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) has reported a number of individuals who attended Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair to the the War Crimes Unit at the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command (SO15). It informed the force of their criminal liability f...
The following article is a comment piece from Abbeyfield Chester resident George Morris for Unite the Union Housing Workers branch’s Social Housing Action Campaign (SHAC). I am a resident of Abbeyfield Chester, a retirement scheme that claims its residents enjoy supported housing with: hig...
The following article is a comment piece from the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians On Tuesday 9 September, Israel launched an unprecedented strike on Doha, the capital of Qatar. It is an infringement of yet another sovereign country’s territory by Israel. And it is a testam...
More than 60 parliamentarians have written to the prime minister expressing their grave concern at reports that the Labour Party government is to welcome Israeli President Isaac Herzog on a visit to London from Tuesday 9 September. MPs speak out against Isaac Herzog’s UK visit In the lette...
Campaign group Fuel Poverty Action is taking the fight to ‘cowboy contractors’ doing dodgy retrofit schemes and leaving people without warm homes this winter. It needs the public’s help to take MPs to task over the “badly designed and delivered” existing schemes leaving behind a “trail of ...
It happens every time. The RMT (or any union, really) goes on strike and its social media gets absolutely clogged with some right prime specimens of ‘That One Fucking Guy’. You know the type – flag emoji after the name, selfie taken just that wee bit too close to the face, Tory councilor f...
The UK’s lack of coherent inclusive transport strategies has failed disabled people. Transport accessibility must become consistent across nations and modes to ensure disabled people can make seamless door-to-door journeys. The Accessible Transport Policy Commission is part of the National...
On Monday 8 September, co-founder of new socialist ‘Your Party‘ and Coventry South MP Zarah Sultana tabled an early day motion (EDM). This calls on the government to prohibit Members of Parliament from owning and letting out residential properties during their time in office. Zarah Sultana...
September marks the first month since June 2024 that supporters of Just Stop Oil haven’t been held in UK prisons for taking action. Going back to to 2022, the state has jailed supporters for 36 out of the last 38 months. However, while in the UK, activists have time to regroup, offer suppo...