International

Emdad Rahman A 46TH BANGLADESH Independence Day celebration has taken place to commemorate the birth of Bangladesh. The get together at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman monument in Sidney Street, Whitechapel, involved tributes to the 1971 martyrs.  Community leader Afsar Khan ...

THE NEWLY confident Israeli state has attacked Gaza, causing at least four deaths, as tensions in Palestine escalate in the aftermath of US President Donald Trump’s public backing for the Israeli state’s claim to East Jerusalem. Three rockets were launched ...

FARMERS IN California were going to spend Christmas planning their avocado harvests early in the new year. Now they will be worrying over how they are going to keep their farms going, as wildfires so massive that they can be ...

JUST A YEAR after he was elected, US President Donald Trump is getting ready to boost the Israeli state at the expense of the Palestinian people and their hopes of being treated fairly in their own country. Trump is expected ...

WE ARE ALL used to the diversity in East London. There’s people from at least four corners of the world – and they’ve all brought their cuisine with them. Walking through the busy streets of our home borough, we have ...

MILLIONS OF people around the globe were shocked to see US President Donald Trump re-tweeting Islamophobic videos this morning. The short videos were initially promoted by Jayda Fransen, Deputy Leader of the extreme right Britain First group, to its own ...

AS THE CRISIS in the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh escalates, Islamic Relief has announced that it is scaling up the level of humanitarian aid it is delivering in the area. The charity hopes to support 300,000 people who are trying ...

MORE THAN half of the Rohingya people who have fled Myanmar are children. They have fled from the danger of being killed to the danger of dying. As the world prevaricates, Human Aid is trying to keep them alive. In ...

TWO FOOD WORKERS in Indonesia – Atra Narwanto and Lutfi Ariyanto – are appealing for brothers and sisters across the world to help them organise to win better working conditions at the Coca Cola bottling company plants in Indonesia. The bottling ...

TOWER HAMLETS Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the Bromley-by-Bow Centre are joining forces to support a free showing of the Oscar-nominated film 5 Broken Cameras on Thursday, 24th October. The film is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in ...