Campaigners at the MBR Acres beagle breeding facility near Huntingdon, England, called for a public day of action on 22 July. And more than 200 animal rights protesters turned out to support the call. Energetic […]

Campaigners at the MBR Acres beagle breeding facility near Huntingdon, England, called for a public day of action on 22 July. And more than 200 animal rights protesters turned out to support the call. Energetic […]
About 200 people came together outside MBR Acres on 9 July to protest the company’s breeding of beagles. Marshall BioResources, which owns the MBR Acres facility in Huntingdon, breeds dogs for medical research. And protesters […]
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has published its 2021 report on workers’ rights across the planet. And ITUC general secretary Sharan Burrow stressed that “workers are under attack like never before”. The latest Global […]
An Icelandic newspaper has published information that further weakens the US extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to an attorney who’s been advising the imprisoned journalist. Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson is an Icelandic hacker. […]
Police in Glasgow are charging a cafe owner with breach of the peace. It comes after an attack on the building following an article in Scottish Sun. And the ‘anarchist cafe’ hasn’t even opened its […]
Cuba’s 1959 revolution took it out of the US sphere of influence. And Washington was quick to respond with a decades-long trade embargo. This has cost the Cuban economy at least $130bn; and under Donald […]
Direct-action network Palestine Action occupied an Arconic site in Birmingham on 14 June. This company makes the cladding linked to the Grenfell Tower disaster. It also makes materials for aircraft that the Israeli military uses against Palestinians. Yogi […]
Mali has turned into a warzone since the NATO-led destabilisation of Libya in 2011. The intervention there helped to bolster extremism throughout the region. And Mali has become a key battleground. But now, amid another […]
A crowd gathered at Stonehenge on the morning of 21 June against the advice of site manager English Heritage. Many media outlets framed it as an ignorance of Covid-19 guidelines. But those on the ground […]
Anti-corruption campaigner Andrew Feinstein claims that bribery is a major factor behind the global arms trade’s lack of accountability. And he says the power of the military-industrial establishment has undermined democracy, particularly in the UK. […]
Historian Antonio Zapata previously called Peru a ‘right-wing country’. But after a tense period of vote counting, left-winger Pedro Castillo has won the 2021 presidential election with 50.125% of valid votes. As political analyst Andrea […]
The 2021 G7 summit brought together seven wealthy countries that export over 50% of all the world’s arms. Phoenix Media Co-op interviewed Dr Alexander Lurz about G7 member Germany in particular. He spoke about the […]
Direct-action network Palestine Action occupied an Arconic site in Birmingham on 14 June. And as police moved in on the second day of the action, they appeared to have an increasingly combative attitude towards the […]
Cornwall’s Kill the Bill movement held its most recent protest on 13 June. And it coincided with the G7 summit’s presence in the county. Kill the Bill and the G7 collide As part of the […]
Since 2012, Rojava (NE Syria) has become a beacon of hope for the democratic left both in the Middle East and around the world. But how did this happen during Syria’s brutal civil war? And […]