Tomorrow's 'Bonfire of Austerity' looks set to be one of the biggest days of action for many years. Actions are taking place up and down the country as people are forced into poverty, forced to choose whether to heat the home or put food on the table and forced...
Following the ISIS outrages in Beirut and Paris, John Pilger updates this prescient essay on the root causes of terrorism and what we can do about it.
In transmitting President Richard Nixon's orders for a "massive" bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, "Anything that flies on everything that...
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...
Conservative MEP Julie Girling has roundly rejected a suggestion by Spain that it could offer a joint-sovereignty arrangement to Gibraltar in the event of Britain leaving the European Union. https://www.euractiv.com/ section/uk-europe/news/spain- suggest-joint-sovereignty- over-gibraltar-in-case-of- brexit/ Mrs Girling said: "I returned from a visit to Gibraltar last week with one message ringing...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighting to retake the northern Syrian city of Manbij from the Islamic State have apprehended militants fleeing the city disguised as civilians, some even in women’s clothing.
“As you see, today we caught 10 of them dressed as women,” said an SDF soldier in...
Michelle Kent explains how she successfully won her tribunal case against Cornwall County Council who are carrying out the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) policy of terrorising council tenants as part of its assault on the low paid and vulnerable. This is followed by the typical Tory MP...
With all the nonsense being spewed by the mainstream media about immigration I considered and actively pursued the strange event of publishing some facts. I appreciate that for some of you reality is a bit scary and boring but living a lie does not make a great epitaph. Even The...
To my friends who live outside of Turkey: I am writing to let you know what is going on in Istanbul for the last five days. I personally have to write this because most of the media sources are shut down by the government and the word of mouth...
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...
The Focus E15 Mothers and Residents, a housing campaign based out of Newham, East London, have gone into occupation of an empty block of flats on the Carpenters Estate and turned it into a vibrant, politically charged social centre. The campaign was formed one year ago out of the struggle of...
