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

Tuesday 01st Sep 2020

Sea Watch 4's rescued finally allowed to come ashore

OVER 350 shipwrecked refugees rescued by an NGO vessel received news that they had finally been allowed to come ashore today, 11 days after the fir

Monday 31st Aug 2020

NGO refugee rescuers 'punished for saving lives at the world's deadliest border'

Civilian rescue ship assists the Louise Michel with rescue after Malta ignores the ship's state of emergency

Thursday 27th Aug 2020

Malta's three-week punishment of a merchant vessel could discourage refugee rescues, activists warn

Alarm Phone brands the stand-off, the longest before a European harbour, as ‘yet another low point in Europe's disastrous actions in the Mediterranean’

Monday 24th Aug 2020

Indigenous Australian tribes block multinational mining corporation from desecrating their land

THE indigenous people of two tribes in the Australian state of Queensland protected their homes today by blocking a multinational mining corporatio

Monday 24th Aug 2020

Shipwrecked survivors say gunmen sank their boat

SURVIVORS of a shipwreck off the cost of Libya have told refugee rights activists that armed men shot at their boat, causing the tragedy in which 4

Monday 24th Aug 2020

Protests after US police shot a black man seven times in the back

HUNDREDS of protesters took to the streets of Kenosha in the northern US state of Wisconsin on Sunday night after a police officer shot a black man

Thursday 20th Aug 2020

European blockade of NGO rescue ships condemned as 45 die in shipwreck off Libya

“MOUNTAINS of corpses” are growing in front of Europe’s walls, refugee rescuers warned today after 45 more people died in a shipwreck off the Libya

Wednesday 19th Aug 2020

Germany orders detention of activists' ships

Mare Liberum says it won't accept the blockade of its human rights mission in the Aegean Sea

Monday 17th Aug 2020

Starmer's Daily Mail article sparks backlash

LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer faced criticism yesterday after penning an article for the Daily Mail, agreeing with Boris Johnson’s plans to send k

Monday 17th Aug 2020

Activists to prevent English Channel becoming ‘a mass migrant graveyard like the Mediterranean’

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

Sea Watch 4's rescued finally allowed to come ashore

OVER 350 shipwrecked refugees rescued by an NGO vessel received news that they had finally been allowed to come ashore today, 11 days after the fir

NGO refugee rescuers 'punished for saving lives at the world's deadliest border'

Civilian rescue ship assists the Louise Michel with rescue after Malta ignores the ship's state of emergency

Malta's three-week punishment of a merchant vessel could discourage refugee rescues, activists warn

Alarm Phone brands the stand-off, the longest before a European harbour, as ‘yet another low point in Europe's disastrous actions in the Mediterranean’

Indigenous Australian tribes block multinational mining corporation from desecrating their land

THE indigenous people of two tribes in the Australian state of Queensland protected their homes today by blocking a multinational mining corporatio

Shipwrecked survivors say gunmen sank their boat

SURVIVORS of a shipwreck off the cost of Libya have told refugee rights activists that armed men shot at their boat, causing the tragedy in which 4

Protests after US police shot a black man seven times in the back

HUNDREDS of protesters took to the streets of Kenosha in the northern US state of Wisconsin on Sunday night after a police officer shot a black man

European blockade of NGO rescue ships condemned as 45 die in shipwreck off Libya

“MOUNTAINS of corpses” are growing in front of Europe’s walls, refugee rescuers warned today after 45 more people died in a shipwreck off the Libya

Germany orders detention of activists' ships

Mare Liberum says it won't accept the blockade of its human rights mission in the Aegean Sea

Starmer's Daily Mail article sparks backlash

LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer faced criticism yesterday after penning an article for the Daily Mail, agreeing with Boris Johnson’s plans to send k

Activists to prevent English Channel becoming ‘a mass migrant graveyard like the Mediterranean’

A MIGRANT rescue group promised yesterday to “not sit back and allow” the England Channel to “become a mass graveyard like the waters of the Medite

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