Unwritten Lives

"Whenever I hear a Western pundit or politician go on about 'democracy,' I say to myself, 'Oh hell, give it a rest. Nobody’s buying that crap anymore.' I think that people serious about Palestine and decolonization more broadly react skeptically to the term because we understand it to be the vocabulary of our own dispossession."

The UK and EU countries who abstained when Ghana’s UN resolution was adopted may soon find it harder to sustain the same old script on reparations

Join the Centre for the Study of Race, Class and Empire for the public lecture by Professor Steven Salaita, renowned Palestinian intellectual, scholar and novelist on Wednesday, 8 April 2026, 5.45-8pm.

With this escalating cost of living crisis, so many are really suffering – yet Labour lacks the imagination, boldness and will to do anything about it.

Concerted dismantling and cumulative decline sum up the state of the rule of law across large parts of the EU and increasingly within the European Institutions themselves.

On 28 March 2026, tens of thousands of people gathered in London to march against the far right.

While the United States has issued only eleven formal declarations of war since 1776, it has engaged in more than four hundred military interventions. This staggering disparity underscores a pattern: the country’s most consequential conflicts rarely pass through constitutional channels but emerge from executive prerogative, shifting geopolitical anxieties, and the entrenched interests of its security establishment. The attack on Iran fits squarely within this tradition.

London, 5th March 2026 – The Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine unequivocally condemns the latest unilateral and unlawful US-Israeli military action in Iran and urges the UK Government not to be complicit by allowing the US to use British military bases to attack Iran.

On Wednesday 4 March the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, became the only European leader to stand up to US President, Donald Trump, opposing the war in Iran. Read his full statement here.

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