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Linda Pentz Gunter
TARGETED: Mohsen Mahdawi speaks outside the courthouse after a judge released the Palestinian student activist on Wednesday April 30, Vermont
Features / 1 May 2025
1 May 2025

The Trump government is seizing overseas students from their homes and campuses and even off the streets, with no legal grounds and no due process, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

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
Pro-Palestinian protesters demanding the release of Columbia
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: Demonstrators at the University of California, B
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
UNIVERSAL CONDEMNATION: (L to R) Student negotiator Mahmoud
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
COURAGE OF CONVICTIONS: Democratic Congressman for Texas Al
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
EXPANSION BY HOOK AND CROOK: The Israeli settlement of Neve
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
FUTURES AT STAKE: (L to R) The MY (motor yacht) Steve Irwin
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: Steve
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 US presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Har
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
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
GRASSROOTS FOCUS: Jeremy Corbyn’s People’s Forum highlig
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