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Organisers seek an extra £40,000 for a memorial to Mary Clarke, the first suffragette to die for women’s rights The campaign to commemorate the first suffragette to die for women’s rights is facing a funding crisis.Mary Clarke, who was the sister of Em…
Millions of people expected for potentially biggest day of demonstrations since president’s second term beganAs tanks and soldiers parade through the streets of Washington on Saturday, millions of people around the country are expected to turn out in t…
Demonstrations at roughly 2,000 sites planned for Saturday, same day as US president’s military parade and birthdayMillions of people are expected to protest against the Trump administration on Saturday at roughly 2,000 sites nationwide in a demonstrat…
As Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s mother remains on hunger strike, supporters say activist’s continued detention is campaign of vengeance by Egypt’s presidentFamily, friends and supporters of the jailed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah have spoken ab…
Who is Alaa Abd el-Fattah and why are British diplomats trying to obtain his release? Patrick Wintour reportsLaila Soueif, 69, has been on hunger strike in London for more than 250 days in an effort to secure the release of her son, the activist Alaa A…
Laila Soueif is critically ill after nearly 250 days on hunger strike in protest against her son’s imprisonmentThe Egyptian president is refusing to take a call from Keir Starmer, knowing it will be a plea to save the life of the mother of Alaa Abd el-…
Soueif is willing to do ‘what it takes’ to free Alaa Abd el-Fattah, after a lifetime of speaking up against injusticeLaila Soueif, lying shrunken on a hospital bed at St Thomas’ hospital in London on the 247th day of her hunger strike in pursuit of fre…
Friends and colleagues of Phillips, killed in the Amazon in 2022, completed his book, which coincides with launch of investigative Guardian podcastThree years after the British journalist Dom Phillips and the Brazilian activist Bruno Pereira were murde…
Maine Coalition for Palestine to join Veterans for Peace, as well as college and university students on shorter strikesA group of Maine residents were set to begin a 40-day hunger strike on Thursday, joining a national wave of similar actions protestin…
Between 10 and 20 protesters are forcibly removed after challenging the board about use of woody biomassThe owner of the Drax power station has abandoned its annual shareholder meeting after a confrontation with activists who staged a protest against b…