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Men’s Rugby League / 12 August 2025

‘Your time is up,’ Red Devils fans tell club’s owners

12 August 2025

Fan group The 1873 issues scathing response to owners’ statement saying the club will not close

Policing / 7 August 2025

Concerns raised over police plans to use controversial DNA tagging spray at League Two matches in Cheshire

7 August 2025

People inspect the damage at the Sheikh Radwan al-Taba UNRWA clinic following an Israeli army bombardment in Gaza City, August 6, 2025

Gaza / 6 August 2025

Top UN official warns of ‘catastrophic consequences’ if Israel occupies rest of Gaza

6 August 2025

Israeli media awash with leaks and rumours of Netanyahu’s plans to seize Gaza. Meanwhile, the unrelenting siege of Gaza continues unabated

Demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags look on as the Ship to Gaza boat 'Handala' arrives at the port of Malmö, Sweden, May 8, 2024

Middle East / 29 July 2025

Former president of Amazon Labour Union Chris Smalls beaten by Israeli soldiers

29 July 2025

Mr Smalls and 13 other Freedom Flotilla Coalition activists who tried to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza aboard the Handala ship remain in detention and on hunger strike

Human Rights / 18 July 2025

Activists rescue over 40 refugees in Malta's Mediterranean waters

18 July 2025

Middle East / 17 June 2025

Egypt's secret police abduct and ‘brutally beat’ three Global March to Gaza's organisers

17 June 2025

People in a crowded wooden boat sail to the port in La Resti

Migration / 17 June 2025

Over 1,800 people die trying to reach Spain from Africa in first five months of 2025

17 June 2025

Upton Rugby Pitch [Pic: Bob Embleton / Creative Commons]

Men's Rugby Union / 11 June 2025

XR to protest against the RFU's ‘sports-washing’ of ‘floody insurers like Allianz’

11 June 2025

The crowd at Manchester Punk Festival 2024

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

SETTING AN EXAMPLE: Watford’s and Norwich City players tak

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

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

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

Police officers fire tear gas canisters during a protest ove

World / 27 June 2024

Kenyan cops must stop misusing crowd-control weapons on protesters, human rights campaigners demand

27 June 2024

World / 27 June 2024

Civil court in Italy rules the detention of a refugee rescue ship in March was unlawful

27 June 2024

A screen grab of a viral video showing uncontacted Hongana M

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

World / 22 May 2024

EU-funded migrant camps in Serbia are sites of severe human rights violations, study finds

22 May 2024

Four of nine Egyptians, who were on trial for migrant smuggl

World / 21 May 2024

Greek judge acquits nine survivors accused of causing the Pylos shipwreck

21 May 2024

France's President Emmanuel Macron (2nd right) chairs a secu

World / 21 May 2024

Vanuatu calls on France to engage peacefully with New Caledonia independence leaders

21 May 2024

Cyprus' interior minister Konstantinos Ioannou (second right

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

A man walks by the fence at the Pournara migrant reception c

World / 17 April 2024

Refugees trapped between hostile Cypriot coastguard and the sea ‘fear they will die of hunger’

17 April 2024

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

Two of the four Iuventa defendants Dariush Beigui (back row,

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

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

Charles Windsor during his visit to the Global Underwater Hu

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

Rescuers from the Humanity 1 approach an overcrowded inflata

World / 11 August 2023

Activists save hundreds of lives during deadly week for refugees in the Mediterranean

11 August 2023

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 a

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

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, Norway

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

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

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