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POLICING THE POLICE: GLC leader Ken Livingstone (centre), wi
Features / 10 March 2023
10 March 2023
In an exclusive investigation, BETHANY RIELLY looks at how the state targeted leading politicians and campaigning groups — labelling many well-known figures 'extremists' and 'subversives' for attempting to hold the police to account
Eritrean female soldiers
Features / 12 December 2022
12 December 2022
On September 4, 16 Eritrean asylum-seekers were arrested at a protest against their country’s dictatorship and its supporters here. Since then, questions have been raised about whether the British authorities are doing enough to protect activists and asylum-seekers from the ‘long arm’ of the regime in Asmara
Famed Palestinian resistance fighter and cultural activist Z
Features / 25 October 2021
25 October 2021
Bethany Rielly speaks to Jenin Freedom Theatre’s artistic director AHMED TOBASI about his friend Zubeidi’s ongoing legacy as a symbol of Palestinian liberation and cultural resistance
Home Secretary Priti Patel
Britain / 23 September 2021
23 September 2021
UNHCR says the Home Secretary's plans will cause ‘significant suffering’ to people seeking refuge in Britain
Britain / 17 June 2021
17 June 2021
Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent
Britain / 3 June 2021
3 June 2021
Campaigners call for closure of camp after judge rules in favour of six residents
Britain / 1 June 2021
1 June 2021
Front-line medic ‘would have been denied entry’ under new policy
Britain / 28 May 2021
28 May 2021
Campaigners stage Downing Street protest as Johnson rolls out the red carpet for far-right Orban
A young family picked up in the English Channel by the Borde
Britain / 27 May 2021
27 May 2021
Only 353 people fleeing war and conflict were resettled in Britain in the year to March 2020

Protesters attempt to stop police officers from removing Pa
Britain / 25 May 2021
25 May 2021
Hours after the Leicester factory protest ends, Palestine Action announces it has occupied another Elbit site in Tamworth
Demonstrators on Broadmead in Bristol during a march in soli
Britain / 21 May 2021
21 May 2021
IDF attacks al-Aqsa Mosque as Palestine ceasefire begins
Demonstrators walk through Kensington as they make their way
Britain / 17 May 2021
17 May 2021
The British government has licensed more than £400 million worth of arms to Israeli forces since 2015, including drones, missiles and warplanes, according to Campaign Against the Arms Trade
Demonstrators outside the Amba Hotel at Marble Arch, London,
Britain / 10 May 2021
10 May 2021
The activist said she was very vulnerable as a result of recently leaving her abusive ex-husband
Demonstrators outside the Amba Hotel at Marble Arch, London,
Britain / 28 April 2021
28 April 2021
Belly Mujinga’s death / 5 April 2021
5 April 2021
Still no inquest after ‘spat-at’ rail worker died with Covid
Britain / 2 April 2021
2 April 2021
70 MPs warn against the measure as PM Boris Johnson announced that there will “definitely” be a role for Covid-19 passports for Britons travelling abroad
Demonstrators outside Brighton Police Station during the 'Ki
Britain / 2 April 2021
2 April 2021
Around 50 rallies are due to take place against government plans to hand police more powers to restrict peaceful protest
A Surge of Power, an artwork used to replace the toppled sta
Britain / 1 April 2021
1 April 2021
Listed stakeholders say they were never consulted
People in the crowd turn on their phone torches in Clapham C
Britain / 30 March 2021
30 March 2021
Report denies cops at Clapham Common vigil were ‘heavy handed’
John Spellar MP
Britain / 28 March 2021
28 March 2021
Spellar urged to clarify whether he assisted Tories as an EETPU official – Bethany Rielly reports
Police officers detain a man as they move in on demonstrator
Britain / 28 March 2021
28 March 2021
Footage appears to show officers in riot gear beating participants with batons and shields
A man kneels on the statue of slave trader Edward Colston be
Britain / 2 March 2021
2 March 2021
Britain / 18 February 2021
18 February 2021
General view of the Young Offender Institution Portland in D
Britain / 3 February 2021
3 February 2021
Survey into the experiences of child offenders found less than half felt cared for in their establishment
Unelected members of the House of Lords listen to a speech b
Britain / 21 January 2021
21 January 2021
Labour's Baroness Chakrabarti ‘ashamed’ she couldn’t persuade peers of the ‘dangers of granting advance immunity for criminal actions for a whole raft of state agents’
Pupils arriving at Manor Park School and Nursery in Knutsfor
Britain / 17 January 2021
17 January 2021
Labour to lead parliamentary motion to cancel universal credit cuts and extend free school meals
Homeless people's tents erected outside a furniture store in
Britain / 6 January 2021
6 January 2021
Generation Rent calls on government to reinstate full eviction ban on court proceedings and bailiffs
Scotland / 23 December 2020
23 December 2020
New analysis shows the cuts have cost Scottish pensioners £40m this year
Britain / 22 December 2020
22 December 2020
Crisis warns that without a concerted effort by ministers, England could see a 90% rise in rough sleeping over the next decade
People walk past a homeless man in London
Britain / 14 December 2020
14 December 2020
Rapid increase in deaths of homeless people is a ‘shameful sign of government failure,’ Labour charges
‘BONKERS’- Labour’s David Lammy queried the Tories’
Britain / 7 December 2020
7 December 2020
Asylum seekers queue for the one canteen at Napier Barracks
Britain / 7 December 2020
7 December 2020
Britain / 7 December 2020
7 December 2020
Features / 6 December 2020
6 December 2020
BETHANY RIELLY speaks to Saleh, a Yemeni asylum-seeker facing deportation on one of the Home Office’s notorious charter flights
Campagners from CAAT make their way to stage a ‘die-in’
Britain / 3 December 2020
3 December 2020
Campaigners outside Downing Street, London, protest against
Britain / 2 December 2020
2 December 2020
Britain / 1 December 2020
1 December 2020
Campaigners protesting charter flights
Britain / 30 November 2020
30 November 2020
Britain / 29 November 2020
29 November 2020
Report highlights prosecution failures: Campaigners call for action
Britain / 22 November 2020
22 November 2020
Home Secretary Priti Patel
Britain / 20 November 2020
20 November 2020
Women's Liberation group marches in protest in support of Bl
Undercover Policing Inquiry / 18 November 2020
18 November 2020
Undercover Policing Inquiry / 17 November 2020
17 November 2020
Campaigners frustrated that only cases in England and Wales are to be investigated
Then Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman joins Union leaders
Undercover Policing Inquiry / 17 November 2020
17 November 2020
Peter Hain and fellow supporters of the Anti-Apartheid movem
Undercover Policing Inquiry / 16 November 2020
16 November 2020
Undercover Policing Inquiry / 13 November 2020
13 November 2020
Former officer says SDS officers were foot soldiers for MI5
Spied on campaigners hold up banner outside amba hotel in ma
Undercover Policing Inquiry / 11 November 2020
11 November 2020
Spycops Inquiry / 10 November 2020
10 November 2020
Inquiry told deceived women were made to feel worthless after being ‘used as mere objects to prop up lies of fake activists’
Lady Justice
Undercover Policing Inquiry / 8 November 2020
8 November 2020
A protest at police spying on lawful organisations held in 2
Britain / 6 November 2020
6 November 2020
by Bethany Rielly
Richard and Audrey Adams (left and centre), parents of murde
Undercover Policing Inquiry / 5 November 2020
5 November 2020
Spycops targeted Audrey and Richard Adams after they launched a campaign to seek justice for their son Rolan, who was killed by fascists
Demonstrators outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London, w
Undercover Policing Inquiry / 4 November 2020
4 November 2020
Oliver Sanders QC described the ‘casual’ sexual encounters undercover officers had with the unsuspecting activists were ‘the kind that happens between consenting men and women’
A demonstrator outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London,
Undercover Policing Inquiry / 2 November 2020
2 November 2020
Greek cops stand by as buses are brought to transport the re
World / 30 October 2020
30 October 2020
Human rights organisations condemn ‘absurd decision’ to evict the asylum seekers
Police officers in London
Britain / 30 October 2020
30 October 2020
Human rights group Liberty warns emergency Covid-19 powers have ‘exacerbated unfair, excessive and discriminatory policing’
Britain / 30 October 2020
30 October 2020
Asylum Matters says government has blown the chance to put things right for those seeking refugee status in Britain
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn speaking at a rally in Glasgow i
Britain / 29 October 2020
29 October 2020
The former Labour leader says he will strongly ‘contest the political intervention to suspend me’ and to ‘continue to support a zero-tolerance policy towards all forms of racism’
A general view of a separation cell in the Dumyat Wing at Co
Britain / 27 October 2020
27 October 2020
UN torture expert Nils Melzer blasts ‘inhumane’ practice
Acorn activists in Bristol on Saturday
Britain / 25 October 2020
25 October 2020
Britain / 25 October 2020
25 October 2020
Britain / 22 October 2020
22 October 2020
Children stand by the sea at the Kara Tepe refugee camp, on
Britain / 19 October 2020
19 October 2020
British-based research group Forensic Architecture confirms expulsions are ‘widespread and continuous’
A group of people thought to be migrants are brought into Do
Britain / 16 October 2020
16 October 2020
Refugee rights groups to hold welcome event outside Napier Barracks in Folkestone
Qatari government soldiers
Britain / 16 October 2020
16 October 2020
The government's agreement, which will allow the Gulf state to use a British military air base, comes after Qatar purchased nine Hawk jets from BAE systems, Britain’s largest arms firm
Britain / 14 October 2020
14 October 2020
Britain / 14 October 2020
14 October 2020
Labour peer Lord Alan West outside Westminster Abbey last De
Britain / 11 October 2020
11 October 2020
Lord West apologies for language on Channel crossings
An anti-HS2 sign on a farmers gate in the Aylesbury Vale, Bu
Britain / 9 October 2020
9 October 2020
XR brand the high speed rail project one ‘of greed not need’
Britain / 8 October 2020
8 October 2020
Coalition of doctors and charities call for Covid-safe shelters as cold weather bites
Britain / 7 October 2020
7 October 2020
‘We want to use our political funding to support and nurture newer voices in the movement,’ Unite general secretary Len McCluskey says
Britain / 6 October 2020
6 October 2020
Experts warn unfair penalties pose a serious threat to public health
A challenger 2 Main Battle Tank during a Land Combat demonst
Britain / 6 October 2020
6 October 2020
Peace campaigners remind government that weapons sales are ‘not just numbers on a spreadsheet’ while Labour's Zarah Sultana says Britain has become a world-leader in aiding and abetting horrific wars and repression
Refugees gather outside the new camp in Kara Tepe, where res
Features / 6 October 2020
6 October 2020
After the notorious refugee camp on the island of Lesbos burnt down in September, a replacement has now been built. But with no shower facilities, clean toilets, water system, power or sufficient food, Moria 2.0 is even worse than its predecessor. BETHANY RIELLY reports
Britain / 5 October 2020
5 October 2020
Orange County Sheriff deputies line up as Black Lives Matter
Britain / 5 October 2020
5 October 2020
Britain / 4 October 2020
4 October 2020
Julian Assange's partner Stella Morris in front of protester
Britain / 2 October 2020
2 October 2020
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak
Britain / 2 October 2020
2 October 2020
The NEU's schoolcovidmap.org.uk website
Britain / 30 September 2020
30 September 2020
NEU's website gives information about the case rate in the locality of every school in England
Home Secretary Priti Patel
Britain / 30 September 2020
30 September 2020
Plan to ship refugees to volcanic island is a deep low for Home Office, charities say
Shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds
Britain / 29 September 2020
29 September 2020
by Ben Chacko and Bethany Rielly
Campaigners outside the Department of Health and Social Care
Britain / 25 September 2020
25 September 2020
Britain / 25 September 2020
25 September 2020
Britain / 24 September 2020
24 September 2020
Labour's Nadia Whittome
Britain / 24 September 2020
24 September 2020
Britain / 23 September 2020
23 September 2020
Peace campaigners say the Bill's purpose is aimed at ‘protecting the MoD’
The Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre in south London
Britain / 23 September 2020
23 September 2020
The south London complex is due to be demolished and replaced with 1,000 new homes, only 116 of which will be social housing
Anti-racist campaigners outside the former army base at Pena
Britain / 23 September 2020
23 September 2020
The campaigners held the event after far-right groups blocked the new arrivals from a former army base that is to house them
Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street
Britain / 22 September 2020
22 September 2020
After weeks of back-to-work bluster, Tories finally admit it's safer to work at home
Britain / 22 September 2020
22 September 2020
Julian Assange
Britain / 21 September 2020
21 September 2020
Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva among 165 others urging the British government to free the Wikileaks founder
Britain / 18 September 2020
18 September 2020
A canine demonstrator at a previous rally in solidarity with
Britain / 18 September 2020
18 September 2020
Britain / 17 September 2020
17 September 2020
Patel's ‘ruin 1,000 lives by Christmas’ plan blocked
Protesters dressed as forensic investigators outside Barclay
TUC Congress 2020 / 15 September 2020
15 September 2020
Palestine Action protesters occupy the roof of Elbit Systems
Britain / 15 September 2020
15 September 2020
President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally in Nevada
TUC 2020 / 14 September 2020
14 September 2020
Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of the TUC speaking at th
TUC 2020 / 14 September 2020
14 September 2020
The TUC leader warned ministers not to ‘punch down on the working poor’ by giving in to bosses' demands to freeze minimum wage
Far right goons march through Dover on September 2
Britain / 13 September 2020
13 September 2020
British Hand calls for violent attacks on refugees and Muslims
Missiles attached to a fighter jet
Britain / 10 September 2020
10 September 2020
The study by Campaign Against the Arms Trade found Britain's biggest customers were Saudi Arabia, Oman and Turkey
Britain / 7 September 2020
7 September 2020
Workers urge Tories to retain furlough scheme to support vital industries
Refugees are escorted to the docks at Dover by border securi
Britain / 6 September 2020
6 September 2020
XR activists glue themselves to Parliament's gates
Britain / 3 September 2020
3 September 2020
‘If politicians won’t take [the climate] crisis seriously,’ Extinction Rebellion said today, ‘then we must prevent them from causing more harm’
Britain / 3 September 2020
3 September 2020
Labour warns of rising inequality cause by ‘digital poverty’
President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in New
Britain / 1 September 2020
1 September 2020
Anti-racists warn defence of ‘vigilante’ could boost global far right
Britain / 11 August 2020
11 August 2020
Human Rights campaigners celebrate winning the world's first legal challenge against the intrusive technology
Britain First leader Paul Golding during a march through Lon
Britain / 9 August 2020
9 August 2020
Refugee rights organisations raise concerns over Priti Patel's plans to use Royal Navy to make the Channel ‘unviable’ for migrants
A Border Force vessel brings a group of people thought to be
Britain / 7 August 2020
7 August 2020
At least 235 people made the dangerous 20-mile journey across the channel in one day
Britain / 7 August 2020
7 August 2020
Britain / 5 August 2020
5 August 2020
Britain / 2 August 2020
2 August 2020
Britain / 31 July 2020
31 July 2020
Green Party hopeful Shahrar Ali beside the Battle of Cable S
Features / 24 July 2020
24 July 2020
SHAHRAR ALI tells the Star why he's pitching himself as the ‘radical’ candidate in the Green Party leadership race
Green Party leadership hopeful Shahrar Ali
Britain / 24 July 2020
24 July 2020
Shahrar Ali says the Lib Dem compromise was a ‘compromise too far’
A general view of Morton Hall Immigration Removal Centre, ne
Britain / 23 July 2020
23 July 2020
Morton Hall in Lincolnshire is set to return to its original use as a prison next year
Britain / 23 July 2020
23 July 2020
UVW welcomes the provision but says the university's treatment of its security guards amounts to indirect discrimination
Britain / 12 July 2020
12 July 2020
Quarter of a million people at risk unless landlords are prevented from evicting renters due to arrears accrued due to the coronavirus crisis
People take part in a Black Lives Matter protest in Brighton
Britain / 12 July 2020
12 July 2020
Britain / 10 July 2020
10 July 2020
Office for National Statistics reports the figure could be higher
Labour MP David Lammy
Britain / 10 July 2020
10 July 2020
Shadow justice secretary David Lammy calls for a ‘thorough investigation to assess what mistakes were made’
A view of the Ministry of Justice in Westminster (left) and
Features / 10 July 2020
10 July 2020
BETHANY RIELLY looks at the risks faced by cleaners forced to work without protection through the pandemic
Striking council workers on the picket line in Tower Hamlets
Britain / 3 July 2020
3 July 2020
Essential workers downed tools today against council's plans to fire and rehire staff on inferior contracts
Universal-credit architect Iain Duncan Smith
Britain / 1 July 2020
1 July 2020
However, the former work and pensions secretary said the policy should not be changed
Britain / 23 June 2020
23 June 2020
Home Secretary Priti Patel updates MPs in the House of Commo
Britain / 22 June 2020
22 June 2020
Ministers renew draconian pledge to speed up deportations following Reading terror attack
Bethany and Mustafa at the launch of the Refugee Journal
World Refugee Day / 19 June 2020
19 June 2020
To mark World Refugee Day, BETHANY RIELLY presents the stories of two refugee writers she met while volunteering at the notorious Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos
A paramedic holds a test tube containing a blood sample at a
Britain / 17 June 2020
17 June 2020
Britain / 15 June 2020
15 June 2020
Far-right goons gather around the box encasing Winston Churc
Britain / 14 June 2020
14 June 2020
National Union of Journalists condemns hooligans' violent attacks on the press
Demonstrators at a socially distanced protest on Trafalgar S
Britain / 5 June 2020
5 June 2020
Britain / 4 June 2020
4 June 2020
Britain / 1 June 2020
1 June 2020
Belly Mujinga
Britain / 1 June 2020
1 June 2020
Campaign calls for protection for all transport workers after death of Ms Mujinga, who died from Covid-19 after being spat at by a member of the public
Desmond Ziggy Mombeyarara
Britain / 1 June 2020
1 June 2020
Desmond Mombeyarara speaks out on being tasered by police in Stretford
Britain / 27 May 2020
27 May 2020
Homeless people queue for food
Features / 22 May 2020
22 May 2020
On March 26 the government declared that every rough sleeper must be brought in off the streets. The call was hailed as a ‘landmark moment’ and an opportunity to eradicate homelessness once and for all. But why, two months later, are there still hundreds of people sleeping rough?
Britain / 18 May 2020
18 May 2020
Labour accuses government of ‘rank hypocrisy’ for clapping for NHS workers while telling them they're not welcome in the country
Women and children flee during the catastrophe in Palestine,
Features / 18 May 2020
18 May 2020
Palestinian refugees during the Nakba in 1948
Features / 17 May 2020
17 May 2020
Features / 15 May 2020
15 May 2020
Britain / 10 May 2020
10 May 2020
Features / 8 May 2020
8 May 2020
BETHANY RIELLY rounds up some of the best online activism of the next seven days
Britain / 30 April 2020
30 April 2020
Trussell Trust reports 81% increase in emergency parcels
Britain / 29 April 2020
29 April 2020
Britain / 27 April 2020
27 April 2020
We are 'forever in their debt,' says Frances O'Grady – but TUC leader slams 'grotesque failure' by ministers who let front-line workers down
Britain / 26 April 2020
26 April 2020
An online protest against Israel's blockade of Gaza by Jewis
Features / 24 April 2020
24 April 2020
BETHANY RIELLY presents her go-to guide for armchair activists, a virtual Red List: your guide to the next 7 days' housebound events and "confined resistance"
Film-maker Ken Loach
Britain / 24 April 2020
24 April 2020
Film director Ken Loach slams the Tories' litany of failures during a People's Assembly webinar
Anti-racism campaigners attend a vigil outside the Home Offi
Britain / 19 April 2020
19 April 2020
Britain / 17 April 2020
17 April 2020
Research by left-wing think tank Common Wealth reveals Britain’s biggest firms paid out £400 billion in dividends between 2011 and 2018
A tents belonging to refugees at a camp near Calais, France
Britain / 16 April 2020
16 April 2020
Care4Calais founder says she's ‘never been more fearful for the people living here’ after support collapses
Britain / 15 April 2020
15 April 2020
Unite leader demands answers over potential misuse of funds contributed by unions to the party
Britain / 15 April 2020
15 April 2020
Labour demands government fix errors and delays that are leaving kids hungry
Britain / 8 April 2020
8 April 2020
Tower Hamlets intended to rehire Social workers, housing and homelessness support, youth services, drug and alcohol services, refuse collectors and more on inferior contracts
Tents belonging to refugees at a camp near Calais, France
Britain / 7 April 2020
7 April 2020
Human rights organisation Care4Calais has called for urgent support to help it distribute food to the stranded
Britain / 6 April 2020
6 April 2020
Charities warn the Tories' ‘debilitating’ cuts have made the crisis worse
Moria camp on Lesbos, where 20,000 people are crammed into a
Features / 6 April 2020
6 April 2020
While the Greek government attempts to justify the mass detention of refugees without the prospect of asylum as a response to the pandemic, human rights groups and lawyers battle to expose the truth, writes BETHANY RIELLY
Britain / 3 April 2020
3 April 2020
A child during a Year 5 class at a primary school in Yorkshi
Britain / 3 April 2020
3 April 2020
Unequal access to adequate home-learning environments could disproportionately affect the grades of poorer students, says the Social Mobility Foundation
Britain / 2 April 2020
2 April 2020
‘Huge discretion’ in how police deploy powers will hit oppressed communities hardest, campaigners warn
Britain / 2 April 2020
2 April 2020
Britain / 1 April 2020
1 April 2020
Britain / 30 March 2020
30 March 2020
Britain / 29 March 2020
29 March 2020