Kevin Ovenden

Kevin Ovenden is a progressive journalist who has followed politics and social movements for 25 years. He is a leading activist in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, led five successful aid convoys to break the siege on Gaza, and was aboard the Mavi Marmara aid ship when Israeli commandoes boarded it killing 10 people in May 2010. He is author of Syriza: Inside the Labyrinth.

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A still form Dune. Source: DuneMovie.net

A song of spice and sand: Dune Part Two review

Don't Bomb Syria - George Galloway. Source: Garry Knight - Flickr / cropped form original / picture in public domain

Rochdale: how to turn a win for Gaza into a win for the left

Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP was elected Speaker of the House of Commons in November 2019. Source: UK Parliament - Flickr / cropped from original / shared under license CC BY-NC 2.0

Parliament’s Gaza shame: democracy in real peril

National Ceasefire Now protest, London 3rd February 2024. Photo: Steve Eason / Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0 DEED

Rebellion over Gaza: the British left strikes back

“Live in such a way that the AFD would have something against it!”, banner at anto-AfD rally, Reichstag, Berlin, January 21, 2024. Source: Stefan Müller - Flickr / cropped from original / shared under license CC BY-NC 2.0

Antifascist eruption in Germany – can it advance?

Donald Trump. Photo: Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0

No one does polarisation like Trump

Rishi Sunak meets Home Secretary Suella Braverman, Oct 2022. Source: UK Government - Flickr / cropped from original / shared under license CC BY 2.0

Fascists summoned from above: Braverman must go

Aftermath of Israeli airstrike in Gaza. Photo: RafahKid Kid / CC BY-SA 2.0

Hamas grows in response to Israeli terror

Photo: gloucester2gaza, Flickr

The Israeli offensive and the risk of wider war

Suella Braverman at the Tory Party Confernce. Photo: Parsons Media.

Social attitudes and culture wars: how do we beat the toxic Tories?

US destroyer firing a missile on Libya as part of Nato operation, 2011. Photo: Public Domain

Nato’s war and climate chaos: causes of the Libyan disaster

A short history of LGBTQ liberation

Metropolitan police pride flag, 2019. Photo: Gerry Popplestone / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Sexual liberation: the necessity of anti-capitalism

'You can't have capitalism without racism'. Photo: Gary Pickburn / CC BY 2.0

Race and Class: Why there is no hierarchy of oppression – video

Advertisement of New Democracy in Greece for the 2023 elections in a bus stop in Athens, with Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Photo: Nikos Likomitros / Wikimedia Commons / CC0 1.0

Greek right triumphant – where now for the left?

Palestine flags in Tahrir Square, Egypt. Photo: Hossam el-Hamalawy / CC BY 2.0

Palestine: the key to freedom in the Middle East rests with the Arab working class