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Julian Assange’s Final Appeal to be held in UK High Court 20-21 February 2024
The UK High Court has confirmed that a public hearing will take place on 20-21 February 2024. The two-day hearing may be the final chance for Julian Assange to prevent his extradition to the United...
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Bullying Your Workers and ‘Defending the Brand’
At the start of January I watched the four-part ITV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office, about the UK Post Office scandal, which may be Britain’s largest ever single miscarriage of justice. I also...
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Too Controversial For U.K. Media
Journalists, if not MPs, should always know when there is a good story out there – it is when those most expected to write about it keep silent that we should ask why. RAF Akrotiri, Britain’s sovereign...
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Why Small Farming Is Essential for Creating a Sustainable Future
Let me start this journey with my feet on my farm. When people visit it, I notice three main responses. One is an unbidden enthusiasm for the rural paradise we’ve created, the beauty of the place, and...
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In Conversation With Stella Assange
Stella produced these two videos of us as part of her “in conversation” series. Topics include campaigning for Julian with Generation Z, spying and diplomacy, Margaret Thatcher, and state action...
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The Last Flurry: US Congress and Australian MPs Seek Julian Assange’s Release
Julian Assange, publisher of WikiLeaks, will be going into battle yet again, with the British justice system on February 20. Assange’s team will present arguments to the British High Court that his...
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Starmer Rewards Israel’s Genocide With A Veto On Palestinian Statehood
The Labour leader’s U-turn is returning UK politics to an era of make-believe peacemaking – a stalling tactic as Palestinians are starved and slaughtered srael’s government is widely understood to be...
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British Universities Are Repressing Free Speech on Palestine
In late October, a lecturer at a UK university was told he would be investigated by his employer for misconduct after students complained about one of his social media posts. Christopher (not his real...
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After Years of Campaigning Against an Israeli Weapons Factory, It Was Direct...
In August 2014, Adie Mormech got a Facebook message he will never forget. It was from Wafaa, one of his former students in Gaza. “Adie do u remember Huda that was in your class in Afaq she was my...
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State Secrecy and Public Hearings Part One
At the Assange extradition hearings in Woolwich Crown Court and the Old Bailey, the public gallery was limited to five and sometimes two. The excuse was Covid. But online access was denied to Human...
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Putting Justice at the Heart of Transition
What if… the future we’re building was as thriving and abundant for all people as we want it to be for nature? What if… consigning fossil fuels and environmental destruction to history could be an...
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Labour Has Given Up on the Climate Crisis
When Sir Keir Starmer began ditching the pledges he’d made during his leadership campaign one by one, he made another pledge to deliver £28 billion worth of green investment per year. Unsurprisingly,...
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Hull’s New Groove: From Arrests to Assemblies
The people of Hull are frank, funny, and disillusioned, and the city rests not only in a basin but also at the sharp edge of crisis. We are the country’s second most vulnerable city to flooding after...
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A Handshake and An Egg: Protesting For Palestine
As I held a banner and chanted along in Bristol Broadmead I felt a growing tightness in my chest. No, not another bout of Covid, thank Gaia, but a familiar, sinking feeling of knowing I have something...
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Assange Final Appeal – Your Man in the Public Gallery
Reporting on Julian Assange’s extradition hearings has become a vocation that has now stretched over five years. From the very first hearing, when Justice Snow called Assange “a narcissist” before...
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Britain Wants To Ban Boycotts Of Israel. Does That Mean They’re Working?
When neighbours who had met at pro-Palestine marches learnt that a charity in their east London borough was raising cash for the Israeli military, they organised quickly. Their goal was to pressure the...
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Labour’s U-turn on Citizens’ Assemblies Shows They Fear The People
The Labour Party’s 24-hour U-turn on introducing Citizens’ Assemblies is testament to the radical idea of actually letting ordinary people control their own future. When you realise that, it’s no...
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The Panic Of the Ruling Class
I have known George Galloway my entire adult life, although we largely lost touch in the middle bit while I was off diplomating. I know George too well to mistake him for Jesus Christ, but he has been...
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Striking While the Iron’s Hot: Unprecedented Strikes in the North of Ireland...
Throughout 2023 and into 2024, the North of Ireland [1] has witnessed the largest and most sustained public sector strikes in all of its jaundiced, gerrymandered 100-year history. The strikes are about...
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Tish Murtha: Born With a Silver Camera in Her Hand
March is Women’s History Month. A suitable time to celebrate Tish Murtha. March also marks the eleventh anniversary of her death. March 2024 would have seen her celebrate her 68th birthday. She ought...
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The Law is Criminalising Activists Because It Can’t Criminalise Violence
The British State this week overthrew a key legal defence protecting climate activists. The belief in consent defence has seen juries acquitting activists in criminal damage cases, much to the fury of...
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In Unprecedented Asylum Case, UK Recognizes Israel’s Persecution of Palestinians
Hasan*, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, has spent all but one of his 24 years of life in the United Kingdom. He does not speak Hebrew or Arabic fluently, and depends on British medical care. In 2019,...
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The Global Laws That Help Corporations Block Climate Action
However much the British government plays fast and loose with our future by treating climate change as a political football, there is a reality it can’t deny: climate action is necessary. That’s why,...
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UK Court Gives Biden Chance to Dodge Assange Appeal by “Assuring” His Rights
WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange is closer than ever to being extradited to the United States for trial on 17 counts under the Espionage Act and one count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion...
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The last days of Julian Assange in Britain
Babar Ahmad recounts his chilling expulsion to the US, shedding light on the stark realities of extradition and the potential fate of Julian Assange. On 26 March, the UK court ruled that Julian Assange...
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The Myth That India’s Freedom Was Won Nonviolently Is Holding Back Progress
If there is a single false claim to “nonviolent” struggle that has most powerfully captured the imagination of the world, it is the claim that India, under Gandhi’s leadership, defeated the mighty...
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A Victory For Anti-Zionists In The UK
On February 5, the Bristol Employment Tribunal handed down a judgement [PDF] that I had long been waiting for. It ruled that my October 2021 sacking from Bristol University, where I’ve been working as...
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Five Years At Belmarsh: A Chronicle Of Julian Assange’s Imprisonment
At the behest of the United States government, the British government has detained WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh for five years. Assange is one of the only...
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I Stand in Blackburn
I shall be standing for election to Parliament as the member for Blackburn. This unexpected turn of events requires an honest declaration. 1) I am standing because of the Genocide in Gaza.2) I am...
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The Farce of Diplomatic Assurances
The United States has now, on the face of it, produced the Diplomatic Note giving the two assurances required by the High Court to allow the extradition of Julian Assange to proceed. The assurance that...
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