International

US-based campaigning organisation If Not Now celebrated the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah by reflecting on last year’s work – and looking forward to the year ahead. Last year’s successes include persuading US presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to ...

PEOPLE ACROSS the world are cheering the departure from office of Donald Trump – hoping that his exit will make the world a safer place. Less often discussed is whether Joe Biden will bring a different approach to the White ...

THE Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) is holding a National Day of Action for Palestine on Saturday, 28th November – and the East London PSC will be doing its bit to raise awareness of the Palestinian people. The actions being taken ...

AT 4.30PM, GMT, Democrat candidate Joe Biden secured enough votes in Pennsylvania for media outlets around the world to announce that he would be the next President of the USA. Who’s cheering? Donald Trump isn’t cheering, for one. He was ...

JOURNALISM is not a crime! Nonetheless, Julian Assange will attend an extradition hearing at the Old Bailey on Monday, 7th September – and the Stop the War Coalition is among the groups supporting a protest which will gather from 9am ...

THE MUSLIM PROFESSIONALS FORUM has welcomed the sentence handed out by the Court in New Zealand to Brenton Tarrant – an Australian national and white supremacist dubbed the “Islamophobic terrorist”. Tarrant had burst into the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch ...

THE Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has called an emergency Zoom rally to discuss the emergency in Gaza – and what campaigners in the UK can do to help the beleaguered residents of this small territory. PSC explains  the emergency in ...

EAST LONDONERS will be holding a protest in Stratford Shopping Centre on Saturday, 22nd August – calling on the world to stop arming Israel and, thereby, bring an end to the bombing of Gaza and other military aggression. The event ...

THE 75TH anniversary of Hiroshima Day took place this week – on 6th August. Up to a quarter of a million people died as a result of two nuclear bombs which the US dropped on Japan in the Second World ...

THE DEATH TOLL is at least 100. The injuries are almost more horrific: an estimated 4,000 have needed hospital treatment, some in a critical condition. The health service, already struggling to cope with Coronavirus, is overwhelmed. Throughout the night, humanity ...