When the Last Bomb Blows, You’ll No Longer Hear a Bird, and You’ll No Longer Hear a Child
The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery tip in Wales in 1966. A mountain of coal slid downhill, burying the local school, killing 116 children and 28 adults. When the avalanche finally stopped, one resident recalled: in that moment of sudden...
Censorship of Anti-Racism and Palestine Activism only strengthens our call to Action
For four consecutive days, multiple actions against Israeli arms company Elbit Systems took place around the UK to resist Balfour Day and the 103 year-long complicity between the UK and the colonisation of Palestine. Social media sites such as Facebook, as well...
The Balfour Devastation
Britain wronged the Palestinian people in 1948; it still wrongs them today Arthur Balfour was a former British Conservative Prime Minister who, as foreign secretary in 1917, issued the Balfour Declaration: the document was, in fact, just a letter, sent to Lord...
Judge favours business interests of war criminals over right to protest
Five Palestine Action activists pleaded not guilty today at Stafford Crown Court for the actions that they took against Elbit Systems. The activists were accused of criminal damage, aggravated trespass and a trade union law that permits the rights to work, during...