The occupation followed a similar protest at the university’s engineering building the week before. Rhys Everquill / Leicester Gazette* Eleven people, including students, were arrested during a pro-Palestine protest occupation at Attenborough Tower on Friday, 15 November. According to Leicestershire Police, “the people reportedly refused to leave” before […]
Workers
In search of people and place
“I just want the Palestinian and Israeli people to live in peace.” Simon Collings from Renton grew up in the Vale, however his birthplace was many thousands of miles away in Jerusalem. Charlie Sherry / Clydersider Magazin* Born in 1979, he was adopted by a couple from Renton […]
“Western journalists are cowards”: The Western abandonment of Palestine
Give Over hosted a panel discussion in London about Palestinian journalists left to die in the dark. Maryam Jameela /Now Then* This panel was organised to discuss the conditional solidarity which has meant that Western journalists have been a complicit audience watching Israel target and kill Palestinian journalists […]
No to the economic war against Cuba
On 15 March 2024, supporters of RATB protested outside the offices of London resident and DCD Rights’ Head of IT Mickael Behn against his $440m lawsuit targeting cruise ship companies previously involved in tourism to Cuba. Text and photos: RATB After lobbying US politicians, both Democrat and Republican, […]
Immigrants at sea (2): Developing internationalist trade unionism
It is about organising wherever there are migrant, precarious, low-paid or marginalised workers willing to unite. It is about fighting outsourcing and structural race discrimination, disregard for workers’ rights and mainstream media bias on anti-exploitation struggles. It is about inspiring young people and making trade union history part of British education.