Skip to main content
Work with the NEU
Youth Demand ‘swarm’ London calling for total trade embargo with Israel
Youth Demand activists in Old Street, central London, April 5, 2025

DOZENS of activists from Youth Demand blocked streets in central London on Saturday, calling for the government to impose a total trade embargo on Israel.

The activists also said the super-rich and fossil fuel elites should be made to pay damages to communities and countries worst harmed by fossil fuel burning.

Monday-Malachi Rosenfeld, 22, a politics and international relations student from east London, took part in the action.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Similar stories
People Against Genocide Martin-Baker
Gaza Genocide / 24 August 2026
24 August 2026

‘This is for the children of Palestine,’ People Against Genocide say after targeting a Martin-Baker site in Buckinghamshire

Activists march with food and water supplies toward the houses of three Palestinian families that have been besieged by Israeli settlers for six days, in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra, south of Nablus, August 14, 2026
Opinion / 19 August 2026
19 August 2026

There is a determined effort to reverse the diplomatic gains of the Palestinians, despite the shift in worldwide global opinion. Solidarity demands no return to business as usual, argues Ramzy Baroud 

Thaer Abu Daraz carries the body of his infant daughter, Sewar, who was killed along with her mother in an Israeli airstrike that struck a tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Gaza Genocide / 30 June 2026
30 June 2026

The electoral cost of Labour’s stance on Gaza is impossible to ignore – the new leadership must take heed, argues PETER LEARY