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Letter to Home Secretary: Government must intervene to defend …
1 day ago · Dozens of UK legal scholars have written to Yvette Cooper, calling for an independent inquiry into the Met Police after their policing of the National Demonstration for Palestine on 18 January In a letter to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, the lawyers describe the policing of the demonstration as “a disproportionate, unwarranted and dangerous assault on the right to assembly and protest”and ...
Gaza ceasefire: Palestinian resilience and the continuing struggle …
Jan 16, 2025 · The ceasefire was something that could have happened many months ago, if the US had the will, but it was Palestinian steadfastness that brought it to pass, argue Michael Lavalette and Shabbir Lakha After 15 months of death and destruction, Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza is due to come to an end on Sunday 19 January.
2024: A year of crisis and disaster | Counterfire
Dec 28, 2024 · From the wave of elections, the bloody wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, to the growing threat of global heating, Terina Hine assesses the major events of the year Elections, war and climate change dominated the news in 2024. The year saw more than two billion people across fifty countries go to ...
Palestine arrests: defend the right to protest | Counterfire
4 days ago · Lucy Nichols argues that the mass rally met with repressive levels of policing will not stop our solidarity with the people of Gaza. Saturday saw Whitehall in Central London densely packed with protesters standing against the ongoing Israeli aggression in Palestine.
Starmer launches war on right to protest – weekly briefing
3 days ago · Lindsey German on the Palestine movement and the new authoritarianism. The attacks on the Palestine protest on Saturday, including the arrest of the movement’s chief steward, Chris Nineham, the arrest of an estimated 77 people in total, and the questioning of left MPs, are a major attack on our civil liberties and freedom of speech.They mark a dangerous turning point which threatens the ...
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Jan 10, 2025 · 24th National protest for Palestine, central London 18th January 2024. Photo: Steve Eason / Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0
What is Counterfire? | Counterfire
Feb 14, 2022 · Who we are, what we stand for and why you should join us. Counterfire is a socialist organisation committed to change from below. We believe socialists’ first job is to harness the anger of millions against the government and its attacks on working people.
How to escalate for peace? Gaza, wider war and a strategy to win
Oct 16, 2024 · As Israel’s atrocities mount, the pro-Palestine movement needs clarity about how to bring the largest possible numbers into its actions, argues Chris Nineham In the last year, the Palestine movement has organised one of the greatest cycles of mass demonstrations in British history, thousands of local protests, all kinds of direct …
The police clampdown on Palestine solidarity | Counterfire
1 day ago · A defence campaign has been launched following Saturday’s unprecedented police repression of peaceful protest, reports John Rees. In extraordinary scenes, the Metropolitan police violently arrested Chris Nineham the chief steward of the Palestine march and then called MPs Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell into Charing Cross police station, alongside Ben Jamal, the director of the Palestine ...