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Demonstrators block traffic in Parliament Square, London last week
KURDISH activists have started a five-day protest in London to demand an immediate halt to Turkey’s attack on Afrin.
Defend Afrin Platform is staging the protest outside Downing Street to call on the British government to stop its ally Turkey’s “massacre and war crimes” in northern Syria.
The platform is an alliance of British-based Turkish and Kurdish organisations and supporters.
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS explains how Britain’s largest union is putting pressure on the British government to recognise the Palestinian state and end its complicity with Israel’s murderous actions
MPs and activists demand British government end its complicity in Israel’s assault on Gaza