Articles by Ben Cowles

Punk or not, don't miss this

Ben Cowles speaks with IAN ‘TREE’ ROBINSON and ANDY DAVIES, two of the string pullers behind the Manchester Punk Festival, ahead of its 10th year show later this month

World | Monday 17th Mar 2025

Unicef: A million children in Gaza ‘are living without the very basics they need to survive’

Features | Thursday 13th Mar 2025

Make anti-racism cool again

World | Wednesday 29th Jan 2025

Two lives could have been saved had Malta launched rescue sooner, activists say

Sunday 20th Sep 2020

Europe's criminalisation of NGO refugee rescuers reaches ‘new peak’ after fifth ship detained in Italy

THE criminalisation of civil refugee rescue operations in the Mediterranean has reached “another peak,” rescuers warned this weekend after the Ital

Sunday 20th Sep 2020

Thanks to Banksy, Louise Michel is fighting oppression once more

LEA REISNER tells the Star about the Louise Michel, a feminist refugee rescue ship named after the famous anarchist and funded by the world's most elusive street-art star — and how the civil fleet came to its aid when Europe abandoned it

Thursday 17th Sep 2020

76 refugees jump overboard in desperate bid to swim to Italy and end their nine-day ordeal

MORE than 70 refugees jumped overboard from an NGO rescue ship today in a desperate bid to swim to Palermo on the Italian island of Sicily.

Tuesday 15th Sep 2020

Malta and Italy refuse doctor's call to evacuate pregnant women from refugee rescue ship

THE Maltese and Italian authorities have refused to evacuate two pregnant women and seven others with severe burns from a refugee rescue ship in th

Sunday 13th Sep 2020

40-day nightmare over for 27 stranded refugees on commercial ship

Mare Jonio transfers the castaways and brings them to Italy

Friday 11th Sep 2020

Refugee support workers on Lesbos warn of ‘chaos’ on the island as riot police are sent in

REFUGEE support workers on the Greek island of Lesbos warned today that the situation for the thousands of people made homeless after Moria refugee

Friday 11th Sep 2020

Activists happy Rio Tinto bosses quit following company's desecration of 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site

Survival International warns the destruction of indigenous lands is ‘pretty much the business model’ for companies like Rio Tinto

Thursday 10th Sep 2020

Environmentalists fighting against controversial fossil-fuel pipeline head to court

ACTIVISTS heading to court in Italy today could face fines of up to €240,000 (£220,100) for their actions against a controversial fossil-fuel pipel

Wednesday 09th Sep 2020

Italy grounds the NGO recognisance plane Moonbird

REFUGEE rescuers condemned the Italian government on Tuesday for preventing a non-governmental organisation’s (NGO) reconnaissance plane from carry

Thursday 03rd Sep 2020

Anthropologist, author and activist David Graeber dies, aged 59

Articles by Ben Cowles

Punk or not, don't miss this

Ben Cowles speaks with IAN ‘TREE’ ROBINSON and ANDY DAVIES, two of the string pullers behind the Manchester Punk Festival, ahead of its 10th year show later this month

Unicef: A million children in Gaza ‘are living without the very basics they need to survive’

Make anti-racism cool again

Two lives could have been saved had Malta launched rescue sooner, activists say

Europe's criminalisation of NGO refugee rescuers reaches ‘new peak’ after fifth ship detained in Italy

THE criminalisation of civil refugee rescue operations in the Mediterranean has reached “another peak,” rescuers warned this weekend after the Ital

Thanks to Banksy, Louise Michel is fighting oppression once more

LEA REISNER tells the Star about the Louise Michel, a feminist refugee rescue ship named after the famous anarchist and funded by the world's most elusive street-art star — and how the civil fleet came to its aid when Europe abandoned it

76 refugees jump overboard in desperate bid to swim to Italy and end their nine-day ordeal

MORE than 70 refugees jumped overboard from an NGO rescue ship today in a desperate bid to swim to Palermo on the Italian island of Sicily.

Malta and Italy refuse doctor's call to evacuate pregnant women from refugee rescue ship

THE Maltese and Italian authorities have refused to evacuate two pregnant women and seven others with severe burns from a refugee rescue ship in th

40-day nightmare over for 27 stranded refugees on commercial ship

Mare Jonio transfers the castaways and brings them to Italy

Refugee support workers on Lesbos warn of ‘chaos’ on the island as riot police are sent in

REFUGEE support workers on the Greek island of Lesbos warned today that the situation for the thousands of people made homeless after Moria refugee

Activists happy Rio Tinto bosses quit following company's desecration of 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site

Survival International warns the destruction of indigenous lands is ‘pretty much the business model’ for companies like Rio Tinto

Environmentalists fighting against controversial fossil-fuel pipeline head to court

ACTIVISTS heading to court in Italy today could face fines of up to €240,000 (£220,100) for their actions against a controversial fossil-fuel pipel

Italy grounds the NGO recognisance plane Moonbird

REFUGEE rescuers condemned the Italian government on Tuesday for preventing a non-governmental organisation’s (NGO) reconnaissance plane from carry

Anthropologist, author and activist David Graeber dies, aged 59

THE anthropologist, author and anarchist David Graeber died aged 59 on Wednesday, his partner Nika Dubrovsky announced on Twitter today.

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