In a busy weekend for protests the Make Them Pay demo in London saw thousands take to the streets to demand the Government Tax the super-rich Protect workers, not billionaires Make polluters pay Make Them Pay is supported by more than 50 organisations and groups fighting for social justice in the UK including Extinction Rebellion,ContinueContinue reading “Make Them Pay and Palestine protests at the weekend.”
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Sheffield Activists help blockade AXA and AIG in Manchester as part of global Insure Our Survival protests.
by Graham Wroe Changing your insurance company could help in the battle to stop the climate catastrophe and end the genocide in Gaza. Want to know how? Then read on! https://youtu.be/qNJ646BqVng Damage caused by flooding and storms has seen the biggest rise in insurance claims in the past 10 years. Global insured losses from naturalContinueContinue reading “Sheffield Activists help blockade AXA and AIG in Manchester as part of global Insure Our Survival protests.”
Palestine motion passed by Sheffield City Council, but it fails to include any action points.
Last week at the Sheffield City Council meeting Councillors debated the awful situation in Gaza. During the Public Questions section at the beginning campaigners made it very clear they wanted the Council to act. https://youtu.be/PS211hLSNnY Complicity with War Crimes Annie O’Gara said “In the last council meeting, a Green Counsellor listed UK support for Israel’sContinueContinue reading “Palestine motion passed by Sheffield City Council, but it fails to include any action points.”
Mourning the dead children of Gaza
https://youtu.be/9YczwoclnhI THE names of around 18,500 children who have all been killed in Gaza by Israel’s onslaught are being be read out loud at Sheffield Train Station today, Friday, September 5, 2025, in an event predicted to take at least 18 hours. Gaza-born Sheffield resident Musheir El Farra will be among those reading the namesContinueContinue reading “Mourning the dead children of Gaza”
Who do you believe?
Cyril Olsen asks a good question (Star 29th August): who should we believe? Should we believe Cyril and the propaganda fed to him by the Israeli Government? Or should we believe the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, the United Nations, Oxfam, UNICEF, the World Health Organisation, UNRWA, Al Jazeera, the Red Cross,ContinueContinue reading “Who do you believe?”
Holocaust denial and Genocide denial should both be treated with contempt.
A letter to the Sheffield Star responding to a writer who claimed starvation isn’t happening in Gaza. Dear Editor Those who claim the holocaust against the Jews never happened or was exaggerated are now rightly treated with contempt by the press and the public alike. Those who claim that starvation isn’t happening in Gaza, thatContinueContinue reading “Holocaust denial and Genocide denial should both be treated with contempt.”
“If your voice held no power, they wouldn’t try and silence you”. Massive March in Sheffield, Saturday 16th August
A guest blog from Friends of Al Aqsa, Sheffield A huge march took place in Sheffield last weekend, on Saturday 16th August. Led by the Friends of Al Aqsa, thousands of people marched from Sheffield alongside many from elsewhere in Yorkshire from Sheffield Amphitheatre, across Park Square, through the City and on to Devonshire Green. ItContinueContinue reading ““If your voice held no power, they wouldn’t try and silence you”. Massive March in Sheffield, Saturday 16th August”
The Filton 24 have spent a year in prison without trial.
A guest blog by Catherine Fish While men, women and children have been killed in Gaza”and a genocide unfolds, activists who tried to halt the British cog in the Israeli war machine were arrested over a year ago under the Terrorism Act, but after over a year remaining in custody, have not been tried underContinueContinue reading “The Filton 24 have spent a year in prison without trial.”
Six local people arrested under terrorism legislation for holding a placard.
Press release from Sheffield Palestine Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid. SIX people from Sheffield returned home yesterday after being arrested and detained for taking part in a peaceful protest in Parliament Square, London. The protest, organised by national group Defend Our Juries, was part of the wider Lift The Ban campaign to end the ban on Palestine ActionContinueContinue reading “Six local people arrested under terrorism legislation for holding a placard.”
Sheffield Demands “Stop Starving Gaza”
A guest blog by Jon Cowley Every day in every newspaper and on every television channel people are bombarded with images of starving people and emaciated children. At least 133 have died of starvation in Gaza in the last few days, including 87 children. The World Health Organisation says that these numbers will start toContinueContinue reading “Sheffield Demands “Stop Starving Gaza””
