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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks to the members of the media on the sidelines of the G7 summit, in Thonon-les-Bains, France, June 17, 2026
Human Rights / 26 June 2026
26 June 2026

Repealing Britain’s most dangerous Bill must be the first act of whoever replaces Keir Starmer, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE

Protesters outside the Law Courts in Liverpool where they gathered to listen to the judgement regarding the appeal of the proscribing of Palestine Action, June 15, 2026
Protest / 15 June 2026
15 June 2026

Campaigners and MPs blast Court of Appeal’s decision to uphold Palestine Action ban

Police remove a protester at a demonstration against the ban on Palestine Action, in Trafalgar Square, central London, April 11, 2026
History / 15 April 2026
15 April 2026

KEITH FLETT looks at the state’s efforts to limit protest rights from the 19th century to today’s repression of the Palestine movement

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
A Metropolitan Police sign on the side of a police vehicle
Policing / 8 March 2026
8 March 2026
Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Sept. 1, 2025
TUC Congress 2025 / 8 September 2025
8 September 2025

Unison leader says international direct action needed to get aid to Palestinians and prevent more Israeli war crimes

People during a protest in Parliament Square, central London in support of Palestine Action, organised by Defend Our Juries who are campaigning to de-proscribe the organisation. A ban against Palestine Action was announced after two Voyager aircraft were damaged at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on June 20. Picture date: Saturday July 19, 2025
Activism / 6 August 2025
6 August 2025

Defend Our Juries organiser says police forces are ‘in disarray’ over how to respond to the proscription as November judicial review causes uncertainty 

Palestinian women mourn over the body of their father, Abd Rahman Al-Baba, who was killed while trying to reach aid trucks entering northern Gaza Strip through the Zikim crossing with Israel, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, August 4, 2025
Direct Action / 4 August 2025
4 August 2025

The proscription of Palestine Action is illegitimate and unethical, say 300 Jewish people, including Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC, Mike Leigh, Michael Rosen and Gillian Slovo, in letter to Starmer

Louise Raw and Louise Regan with the Palestine flag and the other one is of Laura Alvarez (on the left) and Jamila Bolton-Gordon
Activism / 30 June 2025
30 June 2025

BEN CHACKO reports on the struggles against sexism, racism and the brutish British state that featured at Matchwomen’s Festival this year

Northampton has an active trades council that uses a broad range of approaches to widen its scope
Activism / 2 June 2025
2 June 2025

DAVID CONWAY explores how trades councils uniquely bring together diverse local groups to tackle everything from domestic abuse to green campaigns, but warns they must attract younger delegates and use social media more effectively

Palestinians carry boxes containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization approved by Israel, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, May 27, 2025
Activism / 29 May 2025
29 May 2025

Peaceful protesters are facing increasingly authoritarian clampdowns, including two recent arrests for putting a sticker on a Barclays ATM. LYNDA WALKER reports

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Book Review / 9 May 2025
9 May 2025

GUILLERMO THOMAS recommends a useful book aimed at informing activists with local examples of solidarity in action around the world

Features / 2 April 2025
2 April 2025
The unnecessarily violent police intervention at a Quaker place of worship is a PR disaster and will only serve to deepen the chasm between them and the public. SYMON HILL reports
Britain / 5 August 2024
5 August 2024
Arrests come as towns and cities across north still smoulder from days of rioting, looting and attempted lynchings
Cartoonist Bob Starrett with Jamie Caldwell
VOICES OF SCOTLAND / 30 May 2022
30 May 2022
JAMIE CALDWELL explains how Unite Community is using creative skills developed during lockdown for future organising
“What is the history of Cuba if not the history of Latin A
THE PEACE AND JUSTICE REPORT / 27 May 2022
27 May 2022
In Cuba, ‘non-alignment’ has never meant being neutral, and has always meant being opposed to attempts to divide humanity, writes MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS
THE PEACE AND JUSTICE REPORT / 13 May 2022
13 May 2022
A non-aligned future for the global South raises immense challenges and glimpses of hope for India and other nations, writes PRASANTH RADHAKRISHNAN
THE PEACE AND JUSTICE REPORT / 6 May 2022
6 May 2022
The spirit of non-confrontation and peace of the Non-Aligned Movement is urgent today, as Nato countries seek to escalate world tensions, argues MARCO FERNANDES
THE PEACE AND JUSTICE REPORT / 16 April 2022
16 April 2022
By Roger McKenzie and Vijay Prashad
An online protest against Israel's blockade of Gaza by Jewis
Features / 24 April 2020
24 April 2020
BETHANY RIELLY presents her go-to guide for armchair activists, a virtual Red List: your guide to the next 7 days' housebound events and "confined resistance"