For the second consecutive Saturday, a huge demonstration took place for Gaza in London on 26 July.
: "Tens of thousands of people amassed outside the Israeli embassy in London today to protest against Israel's incursion into Gaza which has killed over 1000 Palestinians, including at least 192 children.
Britain
British Prime Minister David Cameron may want a politics-free Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, but campaigners have railed against sponsors鈥 links to deaths and human rights abuses at home and abroad.
The Tory PM told business leaders on a jaunt to Glasgow University on July 23 that he wanted to steer clear of politics as the clock wound down to the games opening ceremony. A crowd of protesters thronged outside the university library where he spoke, with picketers ranging from the Radical Independence Coalition to Our People鈥檚 National Health Service.
Ireland: Sports fans fly flags for Gaza
Dublin Gaelic Athletics Association fans unfurled a huge banner reading 鈥淔ree Gaza鈥 during the Leinster Senior Football Final on July 20, while Palestinian flags were flown by crowds at other sporting events across the country.
With tanks rolling through the outskirts of Gaza and the Israeli Defense Force organises new air strikes targeting hospitals and civilians playing football on the beach, almost 100 protests took place right across the world on July 19 and 20, calling for an end to the brutal occupation of Palestine and the bombing of Gaza.
Unite the Union, the largest union in Britain and Europe, has unanimously passed a motion supporting the Venezuelan government of President Nicolas Maduro and re-affirming its support for the .
The motion was presented during Unite鈥檚 June 30 to July 4 policy conference in Liverpool.
Commenting on moves towards US sanctions on Venezuela in recent weeks, the mover of the motion said: 鈥淥ne can only conclude that some in the US share the Venezuelan opposition鈥檚 aim to oust the Maduro government鈥.
鈥淒avid Cameron鈥檚 government is responsible for the most aggressive attack for over a century on our public services, our standard of living and on the future for jobs and a decent life for young people,鈥 said the , which is pushing for a 鈥測es鈥 vote in Scotland's September 18 referendum on independence. 鈥淭he millionaire cabinet are ruining the chances of a generation. By slashing services and privatising health and education they are driving our young people to despair.鈥
Workers in more than 50 cities across England, Wales and Scotland joined Britain's largest trade union mobilisation since the mass strike over pensions in 2011.
More than 2 million public sector workers took part in marches in their local cities, while others maintained pickets of public sector buildings and local authorities.
The main issue driving the mass strike was the meagre 1% pay rise offered by the Conservative-Liberal-Democrat coalition government. This amount to a wage cut the soaring living costs workers have been experiencing in the past several years are factored in.
Scotland will vote on independence from Britain September 18. Despite a strong campaign by establishment figures for a 鈥渘o鈥 vote, polls showing growing support for independence, although still not a majority.
Below, Colin Fox explains why Scottish independence will be a blow to austerity and a win for working people. Fox is the nation spokesperson for Scottish Socialist Party and a former member of Scottish parliament, and sits on the Yes Scotland advisory board.
When Gerry Conlon died on June 21, it reminded the world once more of the cases of the Guilford Four and the Birmingham Six, Irish people framed for bombings in England they had noting to do with.
Conlon, of the Guilford Four, jailed in 1974, endured more than 14 years in prison, including solitary confinement, before finally clearing his name.
鈥淲hen Gerry Conlon, who has died aged 60 of lung cancer, met survivors of the US's Guant谩namo Bay detention camp, he found that their 21st-century experiences mirrored his in the 1970s,鈥 about the Belfast-born Conlon who passed away on June 21.
He spent more than 14 years in jail from 1974-1989 after being found guilty by British authorities for pub bombings in Guilford that he did not commit.
It seems to have been decided that the best response to the success of Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party that won 27.45% of the vote in the May European elections, is to try to copy him.
The Tories will soon reveal that one of their councillors declared that 鈥渢he shape of a Romanian鈥檚 spine proves he鈥檚 actually a type of stinging nettle鈥 on an election leaflet, but it was a mistake anyone could make, especially as the councillor had an earache at the time.
For the past five years, we have heard a great deal of rhetoric from British politicians about the 鈥渢ough choices鈥 that the financial crisis has imposed on the nation.
Again and again, we heard that this crisis affected everyone equally, and that all of us were rowing together to put it right and share the burden and hardship.
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