Law, policing and justice
The anti-democratic tendencies of many governments are reflected in restrictions on the right to protest or strike, creeping surveillance, and the rollback of civil liberties.
In our section on law, policing and justice we cover how citizens are pushing back, from campaigns against police corruption to movements for migrants’ rights, prison abolition and decriminalisation of sex work and more.
The anti-democratic tendencies of many governments are reflected in restrictions on the right to protest or strike, creeping surveillance, and the rollback of civil liberties.
In our section on law, policing and justice we cover how citizens are pushing back, from campaigns against police corruption to movements for migrants’ rights, prison abolition and decriminalisation of sex work and more.
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Right to divorce
As right-wing parties threaten LGBTQ+ communities, we must defend hard-won legal rights while still fighting for a more radical liberation, says Siobhan McGuirk
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Embedding racism: a brief history of border violence
Siobhan McGuirk charts the development of UK borders and citizenship policies since the early 1900s
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A common enemy: colonialism and imperialism
Understanding the relationship between imperialism and colonialism is essential for dismantling the global capitalist system, writes Mohammed Elnaiem
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Rethinking approaches to tackle human trafficking
Sallie Yea reports on the realities of labour migration and the shortcomings of anti-trafficking policies
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Five years of the US’s futile FOSTA-SESTA sex trafficking laws
The US law has inflicted enormous damage worldwide on sex workers, while doing nothing to fight exploitation, writes Marin Scarlett
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Inside the Israeli panopticon
Israeli surveillance is used to crush Palestinian resistance and their model is being exported across the globe, explains Dr. Yara Hawari
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The colonial roots of the Metropolitan Police
The Met’s institutional racism is inevitable given its key inspiration: the policing model used to quell Irish anti-colonial resistance, argues Kate Bermingham