On Sunday 21 September, Husam Zomlot (Palestine’s ambassador to the UK) sat down with the BBC‘s Laura Kuenssberg. As the UK is at odds with the UN’s verdict Israel is committing genocide, Kuenssberg was able ‘both-sides’ the conflict in a fashion which will likely look unimaginable twelve ...
A new report from Common Wealth has beautifully visualised how privatisation turned our nation into “Rip-Off Britain”. Complete with a ‘Visual Story’ and ‘Data Dashboard’, the site takes you on a journey through every grubby scam that capitalists have inflicted on us. Somehow, they’ve also...
The word “genocide” is often deemed to be provocative and misleading by its perpetrators and enablers. Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-Jewish lawyer who coined the term “genocide” in 1944, tirelessly advocated for the recognition of genocide as an international crime, influencing the drafting of ...
Israel’s relentless military campaign in Gaza City is destroying far more than homes and civilian infrastructure. It is systematically erasing the cultural, historical, and spiritual fabric of Palestinian life. Centuries-old mosques, churches, markets, archives, museums, cemeteries, and ar...
The Peter Tatchell Foundation has urged mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham to require the chief constable Stephen Watson to apologise for decades of past homophobic police witch-hunts. Watson has for two years refused to say sorry. As mayor, Burnham has overall responsibility for pol...
Jeremy Corbyn has come out swinging after a week of chaos and recriminations, telling an audience of supporters that he is determined that Your Party will be formally founded, will have its founding conference on schedule in November and will be democratic and grassroots-powered. Corbyn: Y...
The Hind Rajab Foundation, which is named after a five-year-old Palestinian girl murdered along with her family by 355 machine gun bullets fired point blank by an Israeli tank, has launched war crimes complaints against two alleged Israeli war criminals in Europe. Hind Rajab: taking action...
Former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein, former MP Beth Winter and ex-Tyneside mayor Jamie Driscoll, the directors of MOU Operations Ltd – the firm set up to secure and manage donations to Your Party – have issued a statement expressing their ‘incredible’ disappointment in the ‘leadership fallout‘ ...
John Woodcock, who prefers ‘Lord Walney‘ according to his X profile, has been referred to the House of Lords Commissioner for Standards for racist and Islamophobic targeting of our human rights group CAGE’s Senior Director, Moazzam Begg, according to a statement by the group. John Woodco...
The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to water, Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, has warned that the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza City constitutes “a new step in Israel’s war of extermination” that has been ongoing for 23 months. He pointed out that Israel has deprived 1.7 million Pal...
