Since 2009, The Co-operative Group has operated a Human Rights and Trade Policy, which establishes the exceptional circumstances under which we will withdraw all trade from a particular state, area or settlement. One such circumstance is where there is a broad international consensus that the status of a settlement...
Parliament should be recalled immediately to debate the Gaza crisis, MPs said today. Bradford West MP George Galloway and Hywel Williams, MP for Arfon, have both written to the Speaker of the House of Commons asking him for an urgent debate on the slaughter taking place in the most...
Film-maker Ken Loach yesterday tore into the BBC for its biased coverage of Israel’s assault on Gaza as he joined an ongoing occupation outside the broadcaster’s headquarters in Bristol. Speaking to the Morning Star from the front lawn of the BBC Bristol offices, Mr Loach said: “The protesters are doing...
The United States was the only country in the world that voted Wednesday against the United Nations investigating human rights violations in Gaza unleashed by Israel's military assault.
Of the 47 members of the UN Human Rights Council, 29 nations voted to set up a commission to launch an international, independent inquiry,...
* 10 actions taking place across the country including in central London, Cornwall and Manchester.* Over 45,000 people sign petition calling on Vodafone to pay up* 80% of public think Government are ‘not doing enough to reduce tax avoidance’ according to YouGov. * Protest groups Focus E15 Mothers to...
The government has failed to meet its commitment to ensure that people with a learning disability are supported to return to their communities from units like Winterbourne View. The deadline for making this happen – as outlined in the government’s final response to the Winterbourne View scandal in December...
In 1948, when Palestinians were driven from their nation where Israel formally declared itself a state, the Western world didn’t listen to Palestinians, who were represented as barbarians and extremists for resisting those who terrorised, dispossessed, maimed and slaughtered them, expelling them from their homes and land before declaring...
Interzone, Britain's longest running sf magazine, has been nominated for a prestigious Hugo Award. But the editors' pleasure turned to dismay when they discovered a fellow nominee is an author notorious for his hate fuelled rants about African-Americans, women and other minority groups. Read the response of the Interzone...
“Bye Bye, Jane” - a compelling report, by TIM HICKS FCA, explaining the long and convoluted saga of Belvedere Computers Inc., a suspended US corporation headed by Councillor Jane KENYON-MILLER and her (now) husband Councillor ‘Bill’ MILLER (along with Councillor ‘Bill’ MILLER’s son, Andrew MILLER) – a story first covered by Real...
An activist from Somerset is raising his own ‘Shoestring Army’ to crowdsource funds and mount a legal challenge against the government’s new Claimant Commitment for jobseekers, after police said they were unable to arrest Iain Duncan Smith and Lord Freud for breaching the Human Rights Act. Keith Lindsay-Cameron, of...
