British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, a long-time supporter of Palestinian rights, posted a that was to be read out April 7 demonstrations across Britain against Israel's latest killings of Palestinians in Gaza. By April 8,聽the death toll of Palestinians shot dead by Israeli forces while protesting in Gaza since March 30聽 had .
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Hunger strikes by detainees at Yarl鈥檚 Wood immigration detention centre in Bedfordshire 鈥 one of 13 detention centres in Britain 鈥 ended after a month on March 22. However, campaigners have vowed to continue protests.
From militant suffragette at the beginning of the 20th century to campaigner against colonialism in Africa after World War II, British Sylvia Pankhurst dedicated her life to fighting oppression and injustice.
In what has proven to be the largest industrial action in the higher education sector in recent history, the University and College Union (UCU) launched the first day of strike action across Britain on February 22.
Striking against planned cuts to the pension schemes of academic staff, staff and students took collective action on 61 different universities across the country.
Sir Alex Ferguson was deeply affronted by the Manchester United Football Club supporters who got stroppy about the proposed takeover of the huge English Premier League club he then managed by the US corporate raider, Malcolm Glazer, in 2004.
鈥淭hey carried on to the degree where they actually thought they should have a say in the running of the football club,鈥 exclaimed the outraged manager.
Ferguson got to the core of things by starkly asking just whose club it is.
The British government sold spying equipment worth more than 拢300,000 to the right-wing Honduran regime implicated in mass human rights abuses, including the assassination聽of high-profile environmental activist Berta Caceres.
The sale of the spyware came in the year preceding Honduras鈥檚 November 2017 presidential election, which was聽.
A Labour government would officially apologise and pardon the suffragettes for the miscarriages of justice they suffered in fighting for women鈥檚 right to vote in Britain, said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Thousands of health workers and members of the public joined marches across Britain on February 3 to demand the government act to end the crisis in Britain鈥檚 public National Health Service.
Britain鈥檚 socialist Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn vowed to end Britain鈥檚 rough-sleeping crisis if elected prime minister by 鈥渋mmediately鈥 purchasing 8000 homes for people with a history of sleeping on the streets.
The latest film about former British PM Winston Churchill,聽Darkest Hour, is already being tipped for the Oscars, with Gary Oldman鈥檚 portrayal of Churchill at the helm of speculation.
Oldman鈥檚 performance is indeed brilliant, but let us be clear. While it is a great piece of cinema that, artistically speaking, deserves many awards, it is also a film that glorifies a certifiably vile man.
As Turkey鈥檚 air force bombed the Afrin canton in northern Syria, causing growing civilian casualties in a region that is home to hundreds of thousands of refugees, British Prime Minister Theresa May signed a new deal worth 拢100 million with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on January 28 to help Turkey develop new fighter jets.
By contrast, the socialist leader of the Labour Party opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, sent a message to a protest against Turkey鈥檚 invasion that expressed his solidarity with Afrin and the Kurdish people.
Nobody better reflects the military and political elites鈥 cavalier attitude to nuclear weapons than Sir William Penney, the architect of Britain鈥檚 hydrogen bomb program.
Asked how destructive the new weapons were in meetings in 1961 between US Democrat President John F. Kennedy and British Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, Penney casually answered by saying: 鈥淚t would take twelve to destroy Australia, Britain five or six, say seven or eight, and I鈥檒l have another gin and tonic, if you would be so kind鈥.
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