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Angie Zelter
Features / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
Activist Angie Zelter has been arrested more than a hundred times. She’s not stopping now, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
LABOUR’S LOST HERO: Tony Benn in Grosvenor Square, London,
Features / 14 April 2025
14 April 2025
Yanis Varoufakis and Jeremy Corbyn laid out a roadmap for peace, justice and equality as they celebrated the legacy of inspirational socialist Tony Benn, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Columbia University
Features / 3 April 2025
3 April 2025
Such betrayals to the authorities are strikingly at odds with the history of Jewish persecution, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Us President Donald Trump waves to supporters from his limou
Features / 1 April 2025
1 April 2025
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
RESISTANCE: (Top)demonstrators at the University of Californ
Features / 25 March 2025
25 March 2025
That should be warning enough to end the company’s contract with the NHS, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Features / 22 March 2025
22 March 2025
The arrest of Palestinian activist and former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil is just the beginning as the Trump administration moves to silence students and union members who support Palestine, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Al Green
Features / 12 March 2025
12 March 2025
Student Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest and threatened deportation are terrifying — but the moribund Democrats are still failing to mount any meaningful resistance against the slide toward autocracy, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Anti-cuts protesters rally on Capitol Hill in support of fed
Features / 2 March 2025
2 March 2025
Musk’s ‘Doge’ is already dismantling institutions and destroying lives with shocking rapidity, while legal challenges and protest movements finally begin to mount against the chaos and cruelty, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
settlement
Opinion / 25 February 2025
25 February 2025
Linda Pentz Gunter talks to Anglo-Palestinian author GHADA KARMI Ghada Karmi about why she still believes a one-state solution remains the only acceptable outcome if Palestinians and Israelis are to live in peace
An Ethiopian woman scoops up portions of wheat to be allocat
Features / 7 February 2025
7 February 2025
USAid, which Trump and Musk are moving to abolish, may provide essential aid. But it is also a front for meddling in foreign sovereignty, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
US President Donald Trump (left) watches as Reverend Mariann
Features / 24 January 2025
24 January 2025
The words of compassion by Bishop Budde were ‘a lesson in moral leadership and courage that our government would do well to listen to,’ says Jeremy Corbyn. LINDA PENTZ GUNTER has more on the sermon heard around the world
People take part in a national march for Palestine on Whiteh
Features / 22 January 2025
22 January 2025
The claims of the police and anti-Palestine lobby that the weekend’s march was somehow a threat to a synagogue are painfully transparent, and there is evidence that the police were itching for a confrontation, explains LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Destroyed buildings by Israeli bombardments as seen inside t
Features / 18 January 2025
18 January 2025
After 46,000 dead and countless more from disease and starvation, Palestinians can celebrate a truce, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER, yet even as the Democrat and Republican leaders scramble to take credit, Israel continues killing
LOCAL FIGHTBACK: A resident sprays their property with a gar
Features / 12 January 2025
12 January 2025
At the same time as they rushed to fight to save areas that were not their own, a bipartisan crackdown on immigration and a savage new law threatens the mass detention and deportation of Latin migrants, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
CHAOS: Smoke rises following an explosion in the Gaza Strip
Features / 24 December 2024
24 December 2024
…but whether globally or locally, each of us can take steps to achieve peace, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Features / 23 November 2024
23 November 2024
The veteran ocean defender, a founding member of both Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace, is under arrest in Greenland and faces extradition to Japan for protecting whales — but the world outcry isn’t there, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
cartoon
Features / 3 November 2024
3 November 2024
US Democrats are bracing for election night and the real possibility of a second Trump presidency, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
JVL members and supporters protest outside the BBC's offices
Features / 24 October 2024
24 October 2024
Many are no longer in the party, others excoriate the new Labour government’s capitalist and discriminatory policies, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
JAILED: Eco-protesters support Anna Holland and Phoebe Plumm
Features / 21 October 2024
21 October 2024
Just Stop Oil has been criticised for targeting the work of Van Gogh, but it’s inaction on climate that’s putting great paintings at risk, argues LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris
Features / 8 October 2024
8 October 2024
Donald Trump calls her ‘comrade Kamala’ and portrays her as a left-wing radical — but as a presidential candidate, Kamala Harris is endorsing more centrist positions than she did as a progressive senator, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Just Stop Oil supporters sit on the floor after throwing sou
Features / 4 October 2024
4 October 2024
Just Stop Oil activists aren’t out to destroy art, they are here to save us. We should thank them not jail them, argues LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Claudia Sheinbaum
Features / 1 October 2024
1 October 2024
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER argues the former Labour leader’s invitation to the inauguration of Claudia Sheinbaum, the nation's first Jewish president, contrasted with Starmer’s absence, exposes the hollow nature of the infamous smears
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Features / 27 September 2024
27 September 2024
Jeremy Corbyn’s first People’s Forum handed leadership over to the grassroots not the greedy, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., smiles as he addresses Unite Her
Features / 25 September 2024
25 September 2024
Facing down the many ardent Israel supporters within his own party, the socialist senator will introduce a resolution to ban US arms sales to Israel, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Former Labour Party leader and now Independent MP Jeremy Cor
Features / 18 September 2024
18 September 2024
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports on speakers highlighting global conflicts, from Gaza to Manipur, as Jeremy Corbyn’s initiative gathers leading lights of the left to grapple with Britain’s progressive political future
Rosa Soto, sister of Enrique Soto who went missing after bei
Features / 15 September 2024
15 September 2024
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER recalls the anger and heartbreak over the 1973 coup in Chile, with its torture and massacres, which we now relive with the horrors carried out by Israel in Gaza – and also through our solidarity
Two fellow international solidarity activists carry posters
Features / 13 September 2024
13 September 2024
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER highlights the longstanding pattern of the US government shielding Israel from accountability, as Rachel Corrie’s family joins calls for a transparent investigation into the latest killing of a US peace volunteer
A general view of the Sizewell nuclear power plant in Suffol
Features / 6 September 2024
6 September 2024
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER condemns Starmer’s willingness to let children go hungry and the elderly shiver while pouring billions into doomed nuclear projects that won’t address the climate crisis
Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio
Features / 4 September 2024
4 September 2024
JD Vance’s bitterly misjudged ‘childless cat ladies’ broadside broke the internet — but lightweight, bizarre or even downright dangerous vice-presidential picks are the norm for Republicans, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
A wall of screens displaying surveillance camera footage at
Features / 2 September 2024
2 September 2024
Sarah Wilkinson has consistently exposed Israel’s atrocities in Gaza on social media. Now, British counter-terrorism authorities are trying to silence her, writes LINDA PENTZ-GUNTER
Trump Kennedy
Features / 26 August 2024
26 August 2024
Robert Kennedy Jnr, in endorsing Donald Trump for president, claims things will be different under his influence and that Trump will ‘honour his word.’ That would be a historic but totally unlikely first, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
funeral
Features / 23 August 2024
23 August 2024
Israeli hostage families and independent negotiators blame political point scoring for deaths of loved ones and the failure to get a ceasefire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Features / 19 August 2024
19 August 2024
Conscientious objectors and former fighters forge a joint path to peace for Israelis and Palestinians, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
A file picture of an IDF unit in Gaza
Features / 11 August 2024
11 August 2024
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER meets Breaking the Silence’s Nadav Weiman, who explains how the erasure of Palestinians from maps and rhetoric has enabled brutal occupation and murderous war
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Features / 10 August 2024
10 August 2024
The hypocrisy of the those who dropped the bombs defending another genocide was not lost on protesters, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Algeria's Imane Khelif helps Hungary's Anna Hamori out of th
Olympics / 8 August 2024
8 August 2024
JUST once in a while, the dull ritual that is a press conference unexpectedly becomes the story, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
Imane Khelif
Opinion / 6 August 2024
6 August 2024
The condemnation of ‘masculine’ female athletes is part of a wider persecution of women who don’t fit the norms of femininity, argues LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Features / 6 July 2024
6 July 2024
Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign was a built on trust and loyalty, where kindness actually counts for something, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER from north London
Wimbledon barclays
Tennis / 1 July 2024
1 July 2024
Organisers say the bank is a toxic brand with no place at the sport’s crown jewel, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
Ken Loach
Features / 30 June 2024
30 June 2024
Legendary film director Ken Loach says we need a movement for the many and eventually a new party, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
AF campaign
Features / 28 June 2024
28 June 2024
The Starmer challenger Andrew Feinstein calls Labour leader’s remarks on removing Bangladeshis ‘disgusting,’ writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
General view of the wear and tear to the grass on the baseli
Tennis / 25 June 2024
25 June 2024
But former Wimbledon stars, Vijay Amritraj and Tim Mayotte, argue that’s less important than revitalising the sport in the global South, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
Ground staff paint lines on Court 4 in front of the Clubhous
Men’s Tennis / 18 June 2024
18 June 2024
British tennis reporter, Richard Evans, will be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame this July, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Joe Biden
Opinion / 24 May 2024
24 May 2024
We’ve learned too late that the love affair between Butcher Bibi and Genocide Joe is an unbreakable bond, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
nuke two
Features / 18 May 2024
18 May 2024
Republican Lindsey Graham appealed directly to Israel to 'do whatever you have to do' after opining that using atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was 'OK,' writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
A pro-Palestinian protester yells
Features / 7 May 2024
7 May 2024
Biden tries to look tough by condemning campus violence. But the violent attacks are coming from police and zionist mobs, leading a university workers' union to threaten strike action while faculty members act to defend their students, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Freedom Flotilla ship
Features / 30 April 2024
30 April 2024
Guinea-Bissau has now withdrawn its flag from the Freedom Flotilla — but British humanitarian, Sarah Wilkinson, who intends to sail to Gaza with the activist fleet, says organisers are undeterred, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Features / 22 April 2024
22 April 2024
Defying the potential of another deadly Israeli attack on aid workers, activist ships are once more sailing to Gaza to break the siege and deliver relief to starving Palestinians, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Palestinians inspect a vehicle with the logo of the World Ce
Features / 4 April 2024
4 April 2024
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls Gaza situation a ‘genocide’ that can end if the US flow of weapons to Israel stops, while Republican Tim Walberg calls for Israel to nuke Gaza and ‘get it over quick,’ writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The ship Open Arms belonging to the Spanish aid group by the
Features / 27 March 2024
27 March 2024
A charity started by activist chef Jose Andres has docked an aid ship in Gaza, far ahead of a White House maritime relief plan that could take 60 days, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Haiti violence
Features / 22 March 2024
22 March 2024
The former US special envoy to Haiti says international efforts to install a new leader in the strife-torn country are a ‘meddling puppeteering move’ by the US and Caricom, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Biden SOU address
Features / 14 March 2024
14 March 2024
The new rhetoric and promises of increased aid to Palestinians is not a policy shift, it is a strategy shift, as Democrats start to worry about losing the White House in November, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Donald Trump 27/.2/24
Features / 28 February 2024
28 February 2024
From forensic psychiatrists to Bernie Sanders and now a New York judge, everyone seems to think so, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Biden
Features / 7 February 2024
7 February 2024
His continued support for Israel’s war in Gaza and escalation against Iran could cost Biden the election in November and deliver another Trump presidency, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Death penalty protest
Features / 5 February 2024
5 February 2024
Last month’s botched execution in Alabama has brought this shameful institution back into the spotlight, after the condemned man seemed to struggle for life, writhing in agony for several minutes, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Features / 26 January 2024
26 January 2024
A Trump win in New Hampshire was inevitable — but who actually voted for him? LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports on an unconventional race in a maverick state
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announces the latest d
Features / 25 January 2024
25 January 2024
The clock symbolically shows how close we are to ‘midnight’ — nuclear war — and this year it is only 90 seconds away, the closest it's ever been, warns LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Features / 8 May 2022
8 May 2022
Johnson’s government has announced new nuclear reactors on Anglesey, but it’s home-grown renewables jobs for locals that are needed, that would ease fuel poverty and minimise harm to the environment, argues LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Russian and Belarusian players will not be allowed to compet
Opinion / 29 April 2022
29 April 2022
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER fights the corner of Russian and Belarusian athletes who are facing the consequences of crimes committed by an autocratic leader