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Khaleda El-Feki embraces the body of her husband, Mohamed El-Maghribi, who was killed by an Israeli air strike, at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, July 24, 2025
Middle East / 24 July 2025
24 July 2025
Displaced Palestinians receive donated food at a community kitchen in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, July 22, 2025
Gaza Genocide / 23 July 2025
23 July 2025

Governments must ‘take decisive action, demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire,’ an end Israel's siege and the restoration of UN-led humanitarian missions, over 100 aid groups says

Smoke rises to the sky following an Israeli army airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, July 19, 2025
Middle East / 21 July 2025
21 July 2025
Hossam Azzam holds the body of his child, Amir, who was killed by an Israeli military air strike on Gaza, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, July 15, 2025
Palestine / 17 July 2025
17 July 2025
United States / 17 July 2025
17 July 2025
A serviceman prepares to fire a howitzer toward Russian army positions near Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, on June 14, 2025. Photo: Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade via AP
Russia-Ukraine / 16 July 2025
16 July 2025
 President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House, July 14, 2025, in Washington
Russia / 15 July 2025
15 July 2025
Relatives carry the body of 13-year-old Seraje Ebrahim, killed in an Israeli strike on a drinking water distribution point, for burial outside Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, July 13, 2025
Gaza / 14 July 2025
14 July 2025

Over 30 nations to gather in Colombia to bring a halt to the genocide in Gaza

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (left) and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pose for a photo during their meeting in Beijing, China, July 13, 2025. Photo: Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP
China / 14 July 2025
14 July 2025
A Palestinian man carries the body of his child, who was killed by an Israeli military air strike on Gaza, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, July 12, 2025
Gaza Genocide / 13 July 2025
13 July 2025
Relatives mourn over the bodies of Manal Abd Rabbo and her sister Fatima, who were among 10 people killed in an Israeli strike while waiting to receive nutritional supplements at a Project Hope-run medical clinic in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip,July 10, 2025
Gaza / 10 July 2025
10 July 2025
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (left) meets with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (right) on the sidelines of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' meeting in Kuala Lumpur, July 10, 2025
Russia-Ukraine / 10 July 2025
10 July 2025
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (right) flashes a thumbs up as he and China's Premier Li Qiang pose for photos during their bilateral meeting ahead of the upcoming 17th annual BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, July 5, 2025
Brazil / 6 July 2025
6 July 2025
A Palestinian girl stands atop the rubble of the Al-Aimawi family's home that was destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Al-Zawaideh, Gaza Strip, July 1, 2025
Gaza / 2 July 2025
2 July 2025

New UN report accuses 60 major tech companies and executives of profiteering from Israel’s ‘replacement’ of Palestinians

This June 2023 photo provided by the World Food Programme shows food distribution by the WFP for internally displaced persons at the Wad Almajzoub farm camp in Wad Medani, Gezira state, Sudan
Sudan / 2 July 2025
2 July 2025
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (left) speaks with Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, during the four-day Financing for Development meeting in the southern city of Seville, Spain, June 30, 2025
Spain / 30 June 2025
30 June 2025
Palestinians inspect damaged tents after an Israeli strike hit a displacement camp in Gaza City, June 28, 2025
Gaza / 29 June 2025
29 June 2025
A machine loads a container on trucks as a train loaded with containers leave the Chongqing Railway Container Terminal Station in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on May 20, 2025
Trade War / 27 June 2025
27 June 2025
Britain / 20 June 2025
20 June 2025
People take part in the National march for Palestine in cent
Unison Conference 2025 / 19 June 2025
19 June 2025
UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea joins ambulance workers on the picket line outside Longley Ambulance Station in Sheffield, January 11, 2023
Unison Conference 2025 / 18 June 2025
18 June 2025
(Left to right) Unison southwest regional secretary Kerry Baigent, with Lydia Kabute and Adekunle Akinola, June 18, 2025
Unison Conference 2025 / 18 June 2025
18 June 2025
Unison conference 2025
Unison Conference 2025 / 17 June 2025
17 June 2025
Flames rise from an oil storage facility after it appeared to have been hit by an Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran, June 15, 2025
Features / 17 June 2025
17 June 2025

We are being dragged into not just a war, but a potentially nuclear war

Firefighters and people clean up the scene of an explosion at a residence compound after Israeli attacks in Tehran, June 13, 2025
Middle East / 13 June 2025
13 June 2025

Peace campaigners demand Britain and US stop enabling Israel's ‘insatiable killing’ 

Fires burning in Portadown in Co Armagh, following three nights of disorder in Ballymena, Co Antrim, June 12, 2025
Northern Ireland / 13 June 2025
13 June 2025
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng (right) shakes hands with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent before their meeting to discuss China-U.S. trade, in London, June 9, 2025. Photo: Li Ying/Xinhua via AP
Trade War / 11 June 2025
11 June 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he speaks during the opening of the third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, French Riviera, June 9, 2025
France / 9 June 2025
9 June 2025
People attending the People's Assembly Against Austerity protest in central London, June 7, 2025
Anti-Racism / 8 June 2025
8 June 2025

Thousands take to the streets in massive show of opposition to Labour cuts

Trucks move through containers piled up at a container terminal in Nanjing in east China's Jiangsu province on June 3, 2025
Trade War / 8 June 2025
8 June 2025
A general View of a Next store in London
Sri Lanka / 3 June 2025
3 June 2025
US flags are displayed together with Chinese flags on top of a trishaw on September 16, 2018, in Beijing
International Trade / 2 June 2025
2 June 2025
An Israeli army vehicle moves in the Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, May 29, 2025
Gaza / 30 May 2025
30 May 2025
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre) attends the signing ceremony of the ‘Convention on the Establishment of the International Organisation for Mediation,’ in Hong Kong, May 30, 2025
China / 30 May 2025
30 May 2025
Skulls of people from the Ovaherero and Nama tribes, which were taken by German colonial forces more than a century ago for racial experiments, are returned to Namibian tribal leaders during a ceremony in September 2011, in Berlin, Germany
Colonialism / 29 May 2025
29 May 2025
Palestinians inspect a site used as a shelter for displaced residents that was hit by Israeli military strike, in Gaza City, May 25, 2025
Gaza / 26 May 2025
26 May 2025
Demonstrators rally in New York's Union Square on the fifth anniversary of the death of George Floyd, May 25, 2025
United States / 26 May 2025
26 May 2025
Gaza
Gaza war / 23 May 2025
23 May 2025

Barely 100 trucks enter as bombs kill another 60

Iran United States
World / 23 May 2025
23 May 2025
Sri Lanka / 22 May 2025
22 May 2025
gaza
Gaza / 21 May 2025
21 May 2025

Israel continues to pound Gaza as activists call for a public inquiry into Britain’s role

Features / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
From the TUC Race Relations Committee to national union treasurers, a new generation of formidable black women leaders are breaking barriers and transforming the movement through uncompromising politics, writes ROGER McKENZIE
(L-R) Former World Heavyweight Champions Joe Frazier, George
Obituary / 24 March 2025
24 March 2025
ROGER McKENZIE writes about late boxing legend Foreman’s legacy, from his part in Rumble in the Jungle to becoming world heavyweight champion at 45
AFRICAN HERO: A Walter Rodney poster in Georgetown, Guyana
Features / 20 March 2025
20 March 2025
The Guyanese scholar’s groundbreaking work revealed how Europe deliberately underdeveloped Africa while using its resources and people to fuel Western capitalism, writes ROGER MCKENZIE
A plenary session during the Bandung Conference, 1955
Features / 9 January 2025
9 January 2025
China’s huge growth and trade success have driven the expansion of the Brics alliance — now is a good time for the global South to rediscover 1955’s historic Bandung conference, and learn its lessons, writes ROGER McKENZIE
The Great Mosque of Djenne, Mali. The first mosque on the si
Features / 2 January 2025
2 January 2025
The revolutions in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso against the old colonial powers are seldom understood in terms of Africans’ own agency and their rejection of the imperialist humiliation thrust upon them, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Features / 28 December 2024
28 December 2024
From Zimbabwe’s provinces to Mali’s streets, nations are casting off colonial labels in their quest for true independence and dignity in a revival of the pan-African spirit, writes ROGER McKENZIE
FIRST-HAND VIEW: Flavia Ocampo says Nicaragua has been a vic
Features / 26 November 2024
26 November 2024
Challenging critics of the Sandinista government, the young Nicaraguan union leader FLAVIA OCAMPO speaks to Roger McKenzie about the nation’s progressive health system and how trade unions have been at the centre of social progress
LESSONS TO BE LEARNED: The 2020-21 farmers’ protests in In
Features / 14 November 2024
14 November 2024
ROGER McKENZIE argues that facing Trump’s victory and global crises requires looking beyond failed Western organising models to successful resistance movements in the developing world
(Left to right) Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Egyptia
Features / 29 October 2024
29 October 2024
With the recent meeting in Kazan providing a glimpse of freedom for the global South, we must develop local, regional and international networks that can apply meaningful pressure on those who could steer this new grouping awry, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks during a reception to
Features / 17 October 2024
17 October 2024
ROGER McKENZIE argues that Black History Month has been sanitised, losing its original purpose of empowering black people through knowledge of their history and struggles to actually go out and fight the battles of today
Speakers (left to right) Roger McKenzie, Jeremy Corbyn, Kate
Features / 15 October 2024
15 October 2024
ROGER McKENZIE reports on how peace activists in Britain are uniting diverse struggles against war, climate change and racism to build a powerful force for global justice in an era of deepening conflict
Bill Lucy
Features / 3 October 2024
3 October 2024
ROGER McKENZIE pays heartfelt tribute to the legendary trade unionist who championed black workers while forging powerful alliances across colour lines, reshaping the US labour movement
Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu (centre) an
Features / 19 September 2024
19 September 2024
New alliances like Brics are forging a multilateral world as the global South nations assert their true independence after almost a century of nominal sovereignty under the reality of crushing economic servitude, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Features / 13 September 2024
13 September 2024
ROGER McKENZIE explores how the political economist’s work on geopolitical economics and involvement with the International Manifesto Group offer crucial insights into global power shifts as US hegemony fades
Vice President Kamala Harris campaigns for President as the
Features / 25 July 2024
25 July 2024
Having black capitalist politicians in leadership positions shows that capitalism is able to accommodate racial diversity, writes ROGER McKENZIE — but if the world still starves and burns, so what?
A mosque in the Xinjiang city of Urumqi
15 July 2024
15 July 2024
ROGER MCKENZIE uncovers a history of extremist violence ignored by Western media, contextualising the security measures which have been seized on to allege ‘a genocide’ is being carried out by China
Jamaicans aboard the liner Auriga, Plymouth, August 1955
Features / 11 July 2024
11 July 2024
As the last of his family’s Windrush elders pass away, ROGER McKENZIE reflects on migration, courage and the ongoing struggle against racism in Britain, from the Rwanda plan to ‘stop the boats’
The Islamic Centre in the city of Urumqi — which has recei
Features / 5 July 2024
5 July 2024
From China, ROGER McKENZIE witnesses a place where Islamic culture thrives and economic development powers China’s westward expansion — a reality obscured by Western propaganda
FEARLESS: Singer Paul Robeson addresses the crowd at a World
Features / 27 June 2024
27 June 2024
During the height of McCarthyist repression in the US, black rights legends Paul Robeson and Louis Burnham launched a publication that drew the anti-imperialist connections that others feared to make, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Features / 22 June 2024
22 June 2024
The award-winning documentary on British anti-apartheid heroes has already sparked passionate discussions — now trade unions and progressives must integrate it into training and education courses, argues ROGER McKENZIE
STANDING UP: Labour Party Black Sections members (L-R) Paul
Features / 13 June 2024
13 June 2024
As African and Asian activists pushed back against racism in workplaces and politics in the ’70s and ’80s, eventually trade unions and political parties reluctantly opened their doors to self-organised groups, writes ROGER McKENZIE
LOWER RANKS: Black workers were often recruited to work on t
Features / 12 June 2024
12 June 2024
In the second in a four-part serialisation of his new book, African Uhuru, ROGER McKENZIE outlines the organised resistance to a surge of racism against black workers in law and in the unions as they returned from the war
A refugee camp in Sudan
Features / 30 May 2024
30 May 2024
In grim replaying of colonial plunder, the UAE is arming both sides in Sudan’s civil war that broke out in April 2023, paying itself handsomely from the nation’s gold reserves, reports ROGER McKENZIE
EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION: Learning to understand left
Features / 19 May 2024
19 May 2024
The professional and modern ‘movement incubator for working-class and marginalised communities’ in a smart building in New York’s Midtown is a shining example of what we should aspire to build in Britain, writes ROGER McKENZIE
REGIME CHANGE: Burkinabe military officer Ibrahim Traore, wh
Features / 16 May 2024
16 May 2024
While recognising that Africans must chart their own course for the future, we must not fall into the trap of believing that throwing the French and United States out of the region will mean the people will automatically benefit, cautions ROGER McKENZIE
People walk past a Seagull electric vehicle from Chinese car
Features / 12 May 2024
12 May 2024
While critics struggle desperately to dismiss or explain away China’s rapid and sustained growth, Beijing’s approach of mutual respect and interdependence is inspiring nations to break free from colonial shackles, writes ROGER McKENZIE
The UN security council
Features / 18 April 2024
18 April 2024
What is so galling about this body that has the potential to deliver global justice on a fairly egalitarian basis, is that it generally identifies what should be done — then cannot do it because the US is all-powerful, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Villagers in Asmut, Ethiopia, put on a traditional welcome
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Features / 3 April 2024
3 April 2024
An encounter with a cabbie has ROGER McKENZIE reflecting on the remarkable history of a great African nation and the importance of migrants and their skills for our beloved NHS
VICTIMISED: Diane Abott MP has been badly treated in the Com
Features / 21 March 2024
21 March 2024
Racism in Britain has been forced to become more subtle over the years — but it certainly hasn't been watching the treatment of Diane Abbott this last week. Her experience is, sadly, familiar to many of us, writes ROGER McKENZIE
GRIM PROSPECT: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trum
Features / 7 March 2024
7 March 2024
In 2022 alone, a staggering $800 billion was spent on the military, with 40 per cent funnelling into the coffers of a tiny number of major arms manufacturers — meanwhile, the country crumbles, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Features / 11 January 2024
11 January 2024
From the arbitrary lines drawn with a ruler on the map of Africa to arbitrary regional terms like ‘the Middle East,’ we need to reject names picked for us — including the new clumsy ethnic labels, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Palestinians inspect the rubble of a building of the Al Nawa
Features / 28 December 2023
28 December 2023
From the Congo to Sudan conflicts are raging — as leftists, our job has to be not just calling for peace, but identifying the malign outside forces and wider geopolitical interests fuelling the slaughter, writes ROGER McKENZIE