United Kingdom (UK)

Is The Labour Government Willing To Let Hunger Strikers Die?

December 16, 2025 Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. Educate! health, Hunger Strike, Palestine Action, Prisoner rights, United Kingdom (UK)

In Britain, pressure is mounting on the Labour government to respond to demands put forward by dozens of activists imprisoned for direct action in support of Palestine, many of whom have been on hunger strike since early November. “The hunger strike, which involves eight prisoners for Palestine, is now on day 40,” the campaign Prisoners for Palestine wrote on Friday. “They are in the danger zone, where irreparable harm is likely, and their health becomes critical.” Even before launching the strike, the prisoners had pressed for a set of demands, including fair trial, deproscription of direct action group Palestine Action, and an end of Elbit Systems operations in the country.

ICC’s Karim Khan Says ‘Senior UK Official’ Threatened Him

December 15, 2025 Sondos Asem and Imran Mulla, Middle East Eye. Educate! International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, Threats, United Kingdom (UK), War crimes

The British chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, has accused a senior British government official of threatening to withdraw the UK's funding and support for the court if he pursued arrest warrants against Israeli leaders. Middle East Eye understands the official to be the then foreign secretary and former prime minister David Cameron. The allegation is contained in a statement submitted by Khan to the court which describes details of an alleged campaign of threats faced by the prosecutor in the leadup to his office requesting warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant in May 2024 over alleged war crimes in Gaza.

Palestine Activists Conducting Historic Hunger Strike Need Our Solidarity

December 12, 2025 E. S. Wight, Mondoweiss. Resist! Hunger Strike, Palestine, Palestine Action, Solidarity, United Kingdom (UK)

Seven people, all being held on remand pending trial for allegedly taking action in solidarity with Palestine, are on hunger strike in British prisons. Their names are Qesser Zuhrah, Amu Gib, Heba Muraisi, Jon Cink, T Hoxha, Kamran Ahmed, and Muhammad Umer Khalid. An eighth prisoner, Lewie Chiaramello, who is diabetic, is also on a partial hunger strike, refusing food every other day at serious risk to his health. Today marks Day 40 without food for Qesser and Amu, who began the strike on November 2, the 108th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.

Stop The Hate UK: The Shadowy Israel-Aligned Group Targeting Mintpress

December 11, 2025 Mnar Adley and Alan MacLeod, MintPress News. Educate! Astroturf, Israel, Palestine, United Kingdom (UK), Zionism

A prolific writer who has penned 28 pro-Israel articles in the past two months alone, Sawer asked the British Palestinian journalist to respond to pro-Israel pressure group Stop The Hate U.K.’s campaign for him to be prosecuted for “anti-Semitic hate crimes.” Abul-Essad’s “crime” was attending an October 2024 demonstration in London protesting an event featuring former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert speaking on the future of Gaza – a case that the Metropolitan Police have already looked into and dismissed. Sawer has previous connections to Stop The Hate U.K.

UK Hunger Strike Is Not Being Televised

December 5, 2025 Jonathan Cook, Consortium News. Resist! Hunger Strike, Palestine Action, Prison, United Kingdom (UK)

If we truly had a free media in the U.K., rather than one serving the interests only of the state and billionaire class, this would be a front-page news story: “Six political prisoners – held unlawfully for a year or more on remand, and retroactively deemed to be ‘terrorists’ for trying to stop the Gaza genocide – have been on hunger strike for many weeks in prison. At least one is already seriously ill.” There has been blanket silence from the media on these developments, and barely any coverage of the appalling conditions these political prisoners are being subjected to since Palestine Action was reclassified by Sir Keir Starmer’s government as a terrorist organisation – after their arrests.

High Court Trickery On Palestine Action

December 3, 2025 Jonathan Cook, Consortium News. Educate! Legal System, Palestine Action, Terrorism Act, United Kingdom (UK)

The High Court judge who granted a legal challenge to the government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action — the first time in British history a civil-disobedience organisation has been declared a terrorist group, one now treated as on a par with Al-Qaeda — was removed at the last minute last week. The judicial review hearing began without Justice Martin Chamberlain. He was replaced with a panel of three judges. Justice Chamberlain did not suffer any timetabling conflicts. The Justice Ministry declined to offer any explanation for such a highly irregular change.

Gaza Reveals How Britain Is Run

December 2, 2025 Mark Curtis and Laura Pidcock, Consortium News. Strategize! Britain, Gaza, Genocide, Human Rights, United Kingdom (UK)

British history. Its political system has utterly failed to confront a genocide. Rather, that system has allowed the British establishment to be complicit in one of the worst horrors of our time — Israel’s two-year offensive against Palestinians, complete with ethnic cleansing, systematic attacks on schools and hospitals, and crimes against humanity. Now, under a current supposed ceasefire, Israel is still killing Palestinians and their plight in Gaza remains dire, as the world sees the extent of the mass destruction visited on them. Throughout the attacks on Palestinians in Gaza, British leaders have actively cooperated with Israel in their military, trade and diplomatic policies.

The Climate Briefing Britain Can’t Ignore

December 1, 2025 Monica Piccinini, The Canary. Organize! climate crisis, Climate Science, collapse, United Kingdom (UK)

On 27 November, the National Emergency Briefing on Climate & Nature took place at Central Hall Westminster, bringing together leading experts from climate science, national security, energy, food systems, health, and the economy. Their mission was to deliver a stark, science-led wake up call to politicians, business leaders, and the media of the accelerating threats facing the UK. The message left the room in no doubt: Britain isn’t ready for what’s coming. Naturalist and broadcaster Chris Packham opened the event with a stark warning: This beautiful little blue planet is where we will either learn to live in harmony with the environment or we will destroy ourselves and much of other life, too.

Protests Continue As Court Prepares To Review Palestine Action Ban

November 25, 2025 Ana Vračar, People's Dispatch. Resist! Elbit Systems, Gaza, Genocide, Palestine, Palestine Action, Terrorism Act, United Kingdom (UK)

More than 2,350 people have been arrested since the British government banned the direct-action group Palestine Action earlier this year, including over 250 detained during peaceful protests this month alone. Since the proscription in July, people across the country have mobilized against the government’s repression of Palestine solidarity, intensifying their activities ahead of a legal review of the ban scheduled to begin on Wednesday, November 26. Between November 18 and 29, sign-holding protests are expected in 18 locations across Britain. Several spots in London were chosen for their relevance to the crackdown on Palestine Action and related attacks on free expression, the network Defend Our Juries explained in its announcement.

The Beat Of UK War Drums

November 21, 2025 Craig Murray, Consortium News. Educate! Maritime Law, Russia, The Sea, United Kingdom (UK)

In fascist lockstep, the entire British media, broadcast and print, corporate and state, is leading with a Ministry of Defence press release about a “Russian spy ship” inside “British waters.” No British media appears to have been able to speak to anybody who knows the first thing about the Law of the Sea. Here are the facts. The Exclusive Economic Zone extends 200 miles from the coastal baselines. The Continental Shelf can extend still further, as a fact of geology, not an imposed maximum. On the Continental Shelf the coastal state is entitled to the mineral resources. In the Exclusive Economic Zone the coastal state is entitled to the fisheries and mineral resources.

England And Wales Arrest Dozens Of Palestine Action Supporters

November 19, 2025 Areeb Ullah, Middle East Eye. Resist! Palestine Action, Police, Police abuse, Scotland, Terrorism Act, United Kingdom (UK), Wales

Police in England and Wales arrested more than 140 people on Tuesday, the first day of coordinated protests against the UK government’s proscription of the direct action group Palestine Action. No arrests were made at parallel events in Scotland and Northern Ireland. In each location, protesters staged sit-downs, holding signs that read, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine.” The group, Defend Our Juries (DOJ), which organised the protests, said an estimated 142 people were arrested on Tuesday, with more actions scheduled to take place this week ahead of the planned judicial review into the ban on Palestine Action on 24 November.

University Strikes Escalate As Derby And Lancaster Walk Out

November 16, 2025 Alex/Rose Cocker, The Canary. Resist! Higher Education, Strikes, Unions, United Kingdom (UK), Worker Rights and Jobs

Across UK universities, we’re seeing union members undertaking a massive wave of industrial action in recent weeks. Currently, over 65,000 University and College Union (UCU) members are having their say on potential nationwide university strikes. The ballot opened back on 30 October, and will run up until 28 November. The union will aggregate the results across  137 institutions. As such, should the majority of members wish it, we could see strikes on every one of those 137 campuses in 2026. Meanwhile, the UCU declared strike action at both Lancaster and Derby universities this week, with Northumbria also taking a step closer to strikes of its own by declaring a dispute with management.

UK Doctors On Strike: BMA Turns Down No-Pay-Rise Offer

November 14, 2025 Alex/Rose Cocker, The Canary. Resist! British Medical Association (BMA), Doctors, Health Care, Strikes, United Kingdom (UK), Worker Rights and Jobs

The British Medical Association (BMA) has rejected a new offer from health secretary Wes Streeting to avert strikes on 14 November. Streeting gave the BMA until the end of today, 6 November, to consider. Not that they would have needed it, mind you – the offer didn’t make any move to restore resident doctors’ pay. As the Canary previously reported, there are two issues at the heart of the doctor’s dispute with the government: job shortages and pay restoration. 34% of resident doctors hadn’t been able to secure regular locum or substantive employment in time for August this year, according to a BMA survey.

UK Newspapers Publish More Ads For Polluting Products Than Climate Coverage

November 10, 2025 Ellen Ormesher, DeSmog. Educate! climate crisis, COP30, Environment, Media, United Kingdom (UK)

British national newspapers devoted more than triple the space to advertising polluting industries such as oil, airlines, and sports utility vehicles than they did to covering last year’s United Nations climate talks, according to a new study. Total high-carbon advertising — including for fossil fuel companies, cruises, and banks financing oil and gas – amounted to 5,086 column inches on two key dates during 2024’s COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, relative to 1,745 column inches for the negotiations themselves. With the next round of talks, known as COP30, getting underway in Belém, Brazil, newspapers will likely repeat the pattern, warned Andrew Simms, co-director of the New Weather Institute think tank, which conducted the research.

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