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Water charges demo in Dublin | Breakthrough for Spanish left | US oil workers return to work

US president Barack Obama rushed to condemn the shooting of two police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, last week.

Protests erupted in Madison, Wisconsin, last weekend following the police killing of another unarmed black man.

Killing of an unarmed black man in US is the latest police atrocity to be filmed, Annette Mackin reports

A blast ripped through a demonstration in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv last Sunday, killing two and injuring ten people. 

Israeli army opens floodgates | Activists jailed by Egyptian court | Thousands join US oil strike

Avtar Singh Jouhl invited Malcolm X to Smethwick days before his assassination fifty years ago. He spoke to Ken Olende about the visit’s impact on the fight against racism

Deah Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and Razan Abu-Salha were shot and killed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, last week for one reason—they were Muslims.

Oil refinery workers in the United States have walked out in their first national strike in 35 years.

“What we need to do,” Patrisse Cullors told us, “is to shut shit down”. 

The state of Texas plans to execute Rodney Reed despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence. His brother Rodrick Reed spoke to Annette Mackin about the fight to grant him clemency

A protest for voting rights shows how the Civil Rights movement radicalised and spread even after Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech, as a new film celebrates, writes Ken Olende