Nigerian activist Okey Vitalis has reportedly been held captive by Israel for a week. He was onboard an aid ship heading towards Gaza before it was intercepted. Members of the Omar Al-Mukhtar Flotilla are appealing for his secure release.

Tonight Newham Labour councillors voted unanimously to reject full divestment of Newham’s pension fund from complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Newham Green Party and Newham Independents 💛 fought strongly but Labour blocked it. We won’t stop - now we take the fight to the ballot box.

“It’s extremely concerning that our lovely local hospital is looking into a partnership with a company implicated in the destruction of hospitals in Gaza and the death of health workers.” hackneycitizen.co.uk/2025/10/09/cam…

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Permanent facial recognition cameras are now live in Croydon – with no clear laws and no safeguards to protect our rights.

The government’s £36 million “boost” to tackle homelessness in London sounds like it’s significant until you realise councils are spending £4 million every single day on temporary accommodation. That means the entire funding package wouldn’t even cover ten days worth of London’s

Hackney will receive 350k - probably couldn’t buy back even one ex-council flat for temporary accommodation

BREAKING: 'Massacre' in Sudan kills at least 53 including 14 children and 15 women trib.al/eQMhNCa

🇨🇩Merci au CADTM pour son invitation à la conférence « justice pour le Congo : l’impérialisme occidental en RDC » aux côtés de Samy Manga, Gracy Klinda de Génération Lumière, Brenda Odimba et Yvonne Ngoyi. La convergence des luttes doit plus que jamais s’opérer face à une

1700 of the Palestinians being released have been held without charge, including women and children, as bargaining chips. That’s the definition of a hostage, but they’re still called “prisoners.” The difference in language is intentional, to erase Palestinian victimization.

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D’Angelo, a legendary R&B singer who helped pioneer neo-soul, has died. He was 51. His family wrote in a statement: “The shining star of our family has dimmed his light for us in this life…After a prolonged and courageous battle with cancer, we are heartbroken to announce that

If this happens, they can forget about tackling the housing crisis and wave goodbye to winning the next election. If this is true I hope MP’s from across London and beyond call it out for what it is.

Whatever makes the developers happy hey

This is a wonderful poem by the late, great Benjamin Zephaniah, and a well-deployed riposte to the stirring up of racial division of Robert Jenrick. Meeting hate and division with love and poetry. Nicely done.

You have addressed nothing and done nothing but block debate, a vote and given us word salad for two years. The audacity as well to talk about wasted resources when your group has caused no less than NINE by-elections in 3 years. We will not be withdrawing.

hackney labour need not work harder to bring community together, everyone is already united in the knowledge labour are not fit to run a bath. years of inaction, delays + word salad statements are almost over. enjoy your last months in office girlies, u getting greened in may x

US spy-tech giant Palantir is moving into our NHS to handle patient data, the same company with a troubling record of surveillance and deportations. Our Tech and Data Lead, Duncan, spoke at Hackney Town Hall as Homerton Hospital considers adopting Palantir software. What do

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