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Ben Cowles
The crowd at Manchester Punk Festival 2024 [Photo credit Gis
Culture / 11 April 2025
Punk or not, don't miss this
11 April 2025
Ben Cowles speaks with IAN ‘TREE’ ROBINSON and ANDY DAVIES, two of the string pullers behind the Manchester Punk Festival, ahead of its 10th year show later this month
A Palestinian girl struggles as she and others try to get do
World / 17 March 2025
Unicef: A million children in Gaza ‘are living without the very basics they need to survive’
17 March 2025
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Features / 13 March 2025
Make anti-racism cool again
13 March 2025
Ben Cowles previews his interview with Stand Up to Racism’s SABBY DHALU for the Morning Star’s new Youtube channel
World / 29 January 2025
Two lives could have been saved had Malta launched rescue sooner, activists say
29 January 2025
El Hiblu 3
World / 22 January 2025
Refugees who stopped 108 people from being pushed back to Libya lose latest appeal against criminal charges
22 January 2025
In this photo provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanised Brigade
World / 20 November 2024
Anti-landmine organisation slams US government's decision to allow use by Ukraine
20 November 2024
Israeli soldiers stand near trucks carrying humanitarian aid
World / 21 October 2024
Israel continues to block aid into Gaza and is killing people fleeing in the north, UN officials warn
21 October 2024
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Men's Football / 17 October 2024
Spurs and West Ham fans to unite against clubs' ‘attack on concessions’
17 October 2024
Labour MP Nadia Whittome (second-left) addresses the Labour
Labour Conference 2024 / 23 September 2024
Trying to ‘out Tory the Tories’ on immigration will only embolden the far-right, Whittome tells fringe meeting
23 September 2024
Kenya police
World / 27 June 2024
Kenyan cops must stop misusing crowd-control weapons on protesters, human rights campaigners demand
27 June 2024
SOS Humanity
World / 27 June 2024
Civil court in Italy rules the detention of a refugee rescue ship in March was unlawful
27 June 2024
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World / 26 June 2024
German chemical giant pulls out of major nickel project in Indonesia following pressure from human rights campaigners
26 June 2024
Palestinian children sit at the edge of a crater after an Is
World / 21 June 2024
Governments, arms companies and banks urged to end weapon sales to Israel
21 June 2024
‘By sending weapons, parts, components and ammunition to Israeli forces,’ the above risk being ‘complicit in serious violations of international human rights laws,’ UN experts warn
General View of a Levi's store in London
World / 21 June 2024
Workers at a Levi's supplier factory in Turkey subjected to ‘violence, mass sackings and blacklisting’
21 June 2024
Sudanese Children suffering from malnutrition are treated at
World / 24 May 2024
World urged to protect civilians in Sudan's Darfur region as RSF surrounds city
24 May 2024
Meanwhile, in Ethiopia, Sudanese refugees lack basic necessities, and have been subjected to attacks by armed militia, according to the Alliance of Forces for Radical Change
Serbian flag
World / 22 May 2024
EU-funded migrant camps in Serbia are sites of severe human rights violations, study finds
22 May 2024
Pylos 9
World / 21 May 2024
Greek judge acquits nine survivors accused of causing the Pylos shipwreck
21 May 2024
Macron New Caledonia
World / 21 May 2024
Vanuatu calls on France to engage peacefully with New Caledonia independence leaders
21 May 2024
EU Migration Syria
World / 17 May 2024
Refugee rescuers save over 20 children in the central Mediterranean
17 May 2024
EU states call for Syria to be reclassified as a safe country
Two Baka men from a community who were evicted to make way f
World / 18 April 2024
Unesco accused of complicity in the illegal eviction and abuse of Indigenous people around the world
18 April 2024
Pournara migrant reception centre
World / 17 April 2024
Refugees trapped between hostile Cypriot coastguard and the sea ‘fear they will die of hunger’
17 April 2024
SOS Humanity
World / 13 March 2024
Three refugee rescue organisations to take legal action against Italy for ‘unlawfully’ detaining their rescue ships
13 March 2024
The Iuventa rescue ship rots in a shipyard in Trapani, Italy
World / 4 March 2024
Judge to announce decision on refugee rescuers' preliminary trial in April
4 March 2024
Iuventa activists
World / 28 February 2024
Italian prosecutors ask judge to drop the charges against the Iuventa refugee rescuers
28 February 2024
The Geo Barents crew rescues 81 people in the central Medite
World / 12 November 2023
Activists save close to 300 people from unseaworthy boats in the central Mediterranean
12 November 2023
An 1854 depiction of a slave market
Opinion / 23 October 2023
What Mbonambi allegedly said was not racist
23 October 2023
BEN COWLES, who is covering the sports desk this week while Bella Katz is on holiday, explains why he won't refer to ‘white c**t’ as a ‘racist’ slur
Palestinians wounded in Israeli airstrikes are brought to a
World / 15 October 2023
World Health Organisation condemns Israel's evacuation orders to hospitals in northern Gaza
15 October 2023
King Charles III during his visit to the Global Underwater H
Britain / 10 October 2023
‘The monarchy is a fundamentally racist institution,’ TWT hears
10 October 2023
From left to right: Richard Burgon, Labour MP for Leeds East
Britain / 9 October 2023
Activists and trade unionists must resist the cops inside our heads, TWT hears
9 October 2023
In this image taken from video, refugees from the first grou
World / 24 September 2023
Fears for safety of Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenians grows as first refugees reach Armenia
24 September 2023
DaniloCampailla / SOS Humanity
World / 11 August 2023
Activists save hundreds of lives during deadly week for refugees in the Mediterranean
11 August 2023
Federico Sutera
World / 25 July 2023
ECJ to assess legitimacy of Italian and EU laws that have been used to criminalise asylum seekers and activists
25 July 2023
Two refugee boats appear as small dots on the horizon as the
World / 20 July 2023
Italian coastguards kept over 400 people waiting for hours for help, rescue group says
20 July 2023
Tigs Louis-Puttick, founder of the migrant rights organisati
Britain / 19 July 2023
Activist arrested outside Home Office while protesting peacefully against Illegal Migration Bill
19 July 2023
‘This incident demonstrates not only how far refugee rights have been eroded in the UK but also how the right to protest is under attack,’ Reclaim The Sea founder Tigs Louis-Puttick says
Shipibo people protest in the Amazonian town of Contamana ag
World / 14 June 2023
Indigenous peoples from Brazil and Peru join forces in fight against Peruvian Bill to strip ‘uncontacted’ people of their land
14 June 2023
World / 3 May 2023
Croatian police officers regularly pushing refugees and asylum seekers across Bosnia border, HRW warns
3 May 2023
World / 2 May 2023
NGO ship saves 336 people in the Mediterranean
2 May 2023
In this screen grab taken from video, Sudanese and foreigner
World / 2 May 2023
The healthcare system in a western Sudanese city has totally collapsed, doctors warn
2 May 2023
Meanwhile, thousands try to flee the country as fighting and looting rages on
A flag flies as Public Service Alliance of Canada members wa
World / 2 May 2023
Canadian union wins pay rise and better conditions for 120,000 public servants
2 May 2023
La Via Campesina
World / 17 April 2023
International Day of Peasants’ and Farmers’ Struggle marked with call for end to the persecution
17 April 2023
Refugees on a boat crossing the Mediterranean sea, heading f
World / 15 February 2023
At least 73 reported missing, presumed dead following shipwreck off Libya
15 February 2023
Geo Barents in Stavanger Harbour
World / 29 January 2023
Rescue ship disembarks over 230 people in Italy following Mediterranean rescues
29 January 2023
Supporters of the 24 aid workers and volunteers of 24 aid wo
World / 10 January 2023
Greek court to rule on ‘farcical’ charges against refugee rescuers this week
10 January 2023
snowy forest
World / 16 December 2022
Dozens of refugees forced back across Lithuanian and Latvian borders with Belarus, MSF warns
16 December 2022
The international humanitarian organisation calls on the authorities to put an end to the hostile policy
The crew of the Humanity 1 perform a rescue in the central M
World / 6 December 2022
Refugee rescuers harassed by Libyan vessels while saving lives in the Mediterranean
6 December 2022
David Beckham
Sport / 14 November 2022
Beckham given ultimatum: drop deal with Qatar or watch as £10,000 is shredded
14 November 2022
Comedian Joe Lycett says he will donate £10k to LGBT+ football charities if Beckham quits Qatar, but will drop it all in a blender if he doesn't
One of the survivors aboard the Humanity 1 looks out to sea
World / 8 November 2022
Italy's far-right government causing further harm to traumatised people trapped on rescue ships
8 November 2022
Human Rights Watch joins calls by Amnesty International, the UNHCR and many more, for the 250 people aboard the Humanity 1 and Geo Barents to be brought ashore
Egypt's leading pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah spe
World / 2 November 2022
Nobel Prize laureates call on Cop27 attendees ‘not to forget the thousands of political prisoners’ in Egypt's jails
2 November 2022