There are few people alive who have spent a lifetime as politically involved as she has. She is 91 years old, the founder of Wages for Housework Campaign, and has fought to end institutional racism and gender inequality. Her life is the epitome of a constant struggle for a new […]
Workers
Major insurers invested billions of dollars in fossil fuels
A new report exposes the complicity of global insurers in the climate crisis by insuring and investing in fossil fuel companies. Key findings include $6.5 billion invested in fossil fuels by Allianz, AXA, Aviva, Zurich, and Intact. Blood money fuelling climate collapse; Insurance giants like Allianz and AXA prop […]
Repression against Jews who opposes the genocide of Palestinians
For the past 69 weeks, the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) has been peacefully protesting Israel’s Ambassador, Tzipi Hotovely, near her Swiss Cottage residency for her incitement of genocide against Palestinians. However, on the night of 27 February, the police-imposed conditions to move the picket from Swiss Cottage to […]
Students arrested after pro-Palestine occupation at Attenborough Tower
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 […]
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 […]
















