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An 83-year-old priest and a human rights lawyer were among around 25 people detained for defying the Palestine Action ban on day one.
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4,000 People Tried to March From Egypt to Gaza. It Was Egypt, Not Israel, That Stopped Them

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The Welfare Bill Is a Patronising Moral Crusade to Save Disabled People From Ourselves

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Silicon Valley Insider Exposes Cult-Like AI Companies

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We are being lied to about the true costs of AI.

Is Cleanliness the Most Powerful Taboo?

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Who’s doing the dishes in the communist utopia? ACFM investigate the politics of cleaning and cleanliness.

Israel-Iran War, Escalation Pauses

Richard Hames Meets Eskandar Sadeghi

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26 June 2025

Labour Revolt Over Controversial Welfare Reforms

25 June 2025

Trump Goes to War With Pentagon Intelligence Report

24 June 2025

Trump RAGES As He Warns Israel and Iran

23 June 2025

US Airbases in Qatar Attacked After Trump Threatens Iran “Regime Change”

20 June 2025

Israeli Defence Minister Calls for “Mass Evacuation” of Tehran

19 June 2025

Israel Discovers That Bombing Hospitals Is a War Crime

18 June 2025

Ayatollah Khamenei Threatens ‘Irreparable Damage’ If US Joins War on Iran

17 June 2025

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16 June 2025

Israel Bombs Iran’s State TV

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Palantir Technologies and the Age of Automated Genocide

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Zarah Sultana stands with former Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn as they prepare to address activists at a 'Kill the Bill' protest in Parliament Square, London, April 2021. David Cliff/NurPhoto/Reuters
A Sultana-Corbyn New Left Party Will Need All the Friends It Can Get
UN Calls Out Google and Amazon for Abetting Gaza Genocide
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Labour Is Renationalising the Railways. Cleaners Are Being Left Behind
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Economics

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Reform Is the Political Arm of the Fossil Fuel Industry
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Palestine Action Is Being Banned Because It’s Effective
Israel Has Admitted to Funding Gangs in Gaza. Why Is Anyone Surprised?
Palestine Activists Convicted of Harassment After Questioning MP

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A youth with a scarf in Palestinian colours takes part in a protest in Majd al-Krum, northern Israel, October 2019. Ammar Awad/Reuters
Israeli Citizenship Doesn’t Protect Palestinians From Home Demolitions
Buy-to-Let Landlords Are Dodging Tax En Masse
Labour Is Finally Treating Landlords Like the Spoiled Children They Are

Society

If I Speak
71: If I’m So Angry Then Why Am I Crying?!
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History

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A Palestinian artist draws a mural depicting ‘Nakba’ in Gaza City, 14 May 2011.
Nakba Day 2025: We Existed Then, We Exist Now, We Will Continue to Exist
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Everything We’re Told About the History of the West Is Wrong

TV & Film

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Are Superheroes Inherently Reactionary?
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Culture

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A Group of Musicians Took on an Arms Company – And Won
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