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The Global Sumud Flotilla is preparing to set sail for Gaza as a number of boats are on their way from Spain to form an expanded unified fleet, in Syracuse, Italy, April 23, 2026. Photo: Sebastiano Diamante/LaPresse via AP
Palestine Solidarity / 27 April 2026
27 April 2026
Policing / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026

The British outsourcing giant quietly deleted mention of training US immigration agents after killings in Minneapolis intensified scrutiny of its controversial contracts. SOLOMON HUGHES reports

Campaigners from Can't Buy My Silence and Pregnant Then Screwed, take part in a protest outside the Royal Courts of Justice, central London, to highlight non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) being used to stop women making complaints about harassment at work, May 14, 2024
Workplace Harassment / 15 April 2026
15 April 2026

Campaigners and TUC welcome government consultation on non-disclosure agreements

Israeli bulldozers demolish homes in southern Lebanon, as seen from northern Israel, April 12, 2026
Middle East / 15 April 2026
15 April 2026

Israel's brutality in Lebanon, combined with efforts to draw the Lebanese government into negotiations, are part of a strategy to delegitimise resistance to occupation and apartheid, argues RAMZY BAROUD

People gather to greet freed Palestinian prisoners arriving on buses in the Gaza Strip after their release from Israeli jails under a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, October 13, 2025
Middle East / 30 March 2026
30 March 2026
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Protest Arrests / 29 March 2026
29 March 2026
Anti-racism protesters during a march in Birmingham, August 7, 2024
Together Alliance / 27 March 2026
27 March 2026

Thousands expected to join largest anti-racist march in a generation in London this Saturday

A group of firefighters from Birmingham join other members of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) during a rally outside the Houses of Parliament in central London, calling for more investment in the fire service. Picture date: Tuesday October 8, 202
Anti-Fascism / 28 March 2026
28 March 2026

As the far right gains ground, Fire Brigades Union members are organising in workplaces and on the streets to defend public services and workers’ rights, says STEVE WRIGHT

Supporters of US President Donald Trump rally outside the Maricopa County Recorder's Office, in Phoenix, Arizona, November 6, 2020
United States / 24 March 2026
24 March 2026

The victories that followed the American civil war and the 1960s civil rights era are once again under attack, echoing earlier efforts to roll back equality and redefine democracy, says JOE SIMS

Protesters celebrate outside the High Court, central London, where judges ruled in favour of Palestine Action's co-founder Huda Ammori's challenge over the ban of the organisation as a terror group, February 13, 2026
Activism / 20 March 2026
20 March 2026
Vietnamese civilians at My Lai
War / 19 March 2026
19 March 2026

PATRICK CHURA reflects on the mass murder of civilians in wartime and his own visit, 10 years ago, to My Lai where US soldiers slaughtered over 500 men, women, children and infants

Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal
Courts / 17 March 2026
17 March 2026

Lawyer slams prosecution on final day Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal and Stop the War Coalition vice-chair Chris Nineham's trial

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Film of the Week / 12 March 2026
12 March 2026

Five years ago a flash crowd of Glaswegian activists defeated the Home Office and the police; MATT KERR urges you to savour that day in a cinema

People take part in a Stand Up To Racism counter protest during a protest by people attending a Save Our Future & Our Kids Futures protest outside the Cladhan Hotel in Falkirk, which is housing asylum seekers, September 21, 2025
Human Rights / 9 March 2026
9 March 2026
TAINTED PAST REVISITS PRESENT: Postbank in Berlin / Pic: EmptyTerms/CC
Civil Liberties / 9 March 2026
9 March 2026

JOHN GREEN argues that the spreading practice of closing bank account without proof of criminality is an infringement of an elementary human right

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Book Review / 6 March 2026
6 March 2026

MARJ MAYO recommends a lyrical and disturbing account of the tragic suicide in Venice of Pateh Sabally, a refugee from the Gambia

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Scotland / 3 March 2026
3 March 2026
Released prisoners, in a bus, are welcomed by family members and colleagues after they left Insein Prison, in Yangon, Myanmar, March 2, 2026
Southeast Asia / 2 March 2026
2 March 2026
Protesters celebrate outside the High Court, central London, after it rules in favour of Palestine Action's co-founder Huda Ammori's challenge over the ban of the organisation as a terror group, February 13, 2026
Activism / 13 February 2026
13 February 2026

Court strikes down Palestine Action ban as government slammed for its promise to fight the decision in appeals

The great Chartist meeting on Kennington Common on April 10, 1848 / Pic: William Kilburn/CC.
Protest / 14 February 2026
14 February 2026

KEITH FLETT looks at the political impact of protest

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood arrives for a Cabinet meeting in Downing Street, London, February 3, 2026
Home Office / 12 February 2026
12 February 2026

Over 50 MPs, lords and Unison's new general secretary sign letter against changes to settlement scheme

Gus Kenworthy celebrates at the end of his second run in the men's ski slopestyle final at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park at the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, February 13, 2014
Winter Olympics / 9 February 2026
9 February 2026
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Palestine Solidarity / 4 February 2026
4 February 2026

Dockers from Italy, Greece and beyond will stage co-ordinated port blockades on February 6, declaring ‘we don’t work for war’ – in a call in solidarity with Palestine. ALFIO BERNABEI reports

Austerity / 3 February 2026
3 February 2026

The suicide of Tamara Jade Logon after her disability benefits were wrongly withdrawn is the latest in a series of deaths in which coroners have cited DWP failings, exposing a pattern of preventable harm, says DYLAN MURPHY

Students protest US Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside the Pflugerville Justice Centre after walking out of their classes in Pflugerville, Texas, February 2, 2026
US / 3 February 2026
3 February 2026

Schoolchildren who joined a nationwide anti-Trump walkout learned more outside the classroom than in it but could still be penalised, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER