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

Friday 14th Aug 2020

‘We are going to sail’: Activists ready to defy German law designed to stop them

Mare Liberum says it does not intend to provoke the German transport ministry but that they must go back to monitoring Greece's illegal migrant pushbacks in the Aegean

Saturday 15th Aug 2020

‘We've got to get ready for rescue again’

Doctors Without Borders' HANNAH WALLACE BOWMAN tells the Star about the medical charity's imminent return to the central Mediterranean aboard the Sea Watch 4

Thursday 13th Aug 2020

Activists raising funds for humanitarian ship in the channel

ACTIVISTS dismayed by the government's failing of migrants crossing the Channel are raising funds to buy a ship and launch human rights patrols off

Thursday 13th Aug 2020

Maltese coastguard abandons 25 refugees within its search and rescue area

Refugee rescuers Sea Watch accuse Malta's coastguards of only being interested in ‘sending people back to Libya’

Monday 10th Aug 2020

US left-wing media collective Means TV office target of drive by shooting

THE home of the founders of US left-wing media collective Means TV was shot up in a drive by shooting on Saturday afternoon by an unknown assailant

Sunday 09th Aug 2020

Far right mob Britain First launch ‘migrant patrol’ ship off Dover

Refugee rights organisations raise concerns over Priti Patel's plans to use Royal Navy to make the Channel ‘unviable’ for migrants

Friday 07th Aug 2020

Europe’s militarised borders blasted as 50 refugees drown in the Atlantic trying to reach the Canary Islands

REFUGEE-rights organisations blamed Europe’s militarised borders today as news broke of refugee shipwrecks off the west coast of Africa.

Friday 07th Aug 2020

Anti-gentrification activists clash with police over eviction of left-wing pub collective

ANTI-GENTRIFICATION activists clashed with hundreds of police today while attempting to prevent the eviction of the owners of a popular left-wing b

Thursday 06th Aug 2020

Doctors Without Borders to resume lifesaving missions in the central Mediterranean

Charity announces new alliance with refugee rescuers Sea Watch as European states continue to ignore migrant deaths in the Mediterranean

Thursday 23rd Jul 2020

Italian coastguard condemned for seizing fourth NGO refugee rescue ship over ‘safety’ concerns

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

‘We are going to sail’: Activists ready to defy German law designed to stop them

Mare Liberum says it does not intend to provoke the German transport ministry but that they must go back to monitoring Greece's illegal migrant pushbacks in the Aegean

‘We've got to get ready for rescue again’

Doctors Without Borders' HANNAH WALLACE BOWMAN tells the Star about the medical charity's imminent return to the central Mediterranean aboard the Sea Watch 4

Activists raising funds for humanitarian ship in the channel

ACTIVISTS dismayed by the government's failing of migrants crossing the Channel are raising funds to buy a ship and launch human rights patrols off

Maltese coastguard abandons 25 refugees within its search and rescue area

Refugee rescuers Sea Watch accuse Malta's coastguards of only being interested in ‘sending people back to Libya’

US left-wing media collective Means TV office target of drive by shooting

THE home of the founders of US left-wing media collective Means TV was shot up in a drive by shooting on Saturday afternoon by an unknown assailant

Far right mob Britain First launch ‘migrant patrol’ ship off Dover

Refugee rights organisations raise concerns over Priti Patel's plans to use Royal Navy to make the Channel ‘unviable’ for migrants

Europe’s militarised borders blasted as 50 refugees drown in the Atlantic trying to reach the Canary Islands

REFUGEE-rights organisations blamed Europe’s militarised borders today as news broke of refugee shipwrecks off the west coast of Africa.

Anti-gentrification activists clash with police over eviction of left-wing pub collective

ANTI-GENTRIFICATION activists clashed with hundreds of police today while attempting to prevent the eviction of the owners of a popular left-wing b

Doctors Without Borders to resume lifesaving missions in the central Mediterranean

Charity announces new alliance with refugee rescuers Sea Watch as European states continue to ignore migrant deaths in the Mediterranean

Italian coastguard condemned for seizing fourth NGO refugee rescue ship over ‘safety’ concerns

SOS Mediterranee asks where the authorities' concerns were when they ignored the Ocean Viking's call for help for 11 days earlier this month

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