Justice
Restrictions on the right to protest or strike, creeping surveillance and the rollback of civil liberties are exposing states’ anti-democratic tendencies. We cover the resistance, from campaigns against police corruption to movements for migrants’ rights, prison abolition, decriminalisation and more
Restrictions on the right to protest or strike, creeping surveillance and the rollback of civil liberties are exposing states’ anti-democratic tendencies. We cover the resistance, from campaigns against police corruption to movements for migrants’ rights, prison abolition, decriminalisation and more
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Northern Ireland: the bastard state
A hundred years on from partition, Pádraig Ó Meiscill diagnoses the many ills of past and present Northern Ireland
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Who decides what counts as ‘political’?
Government demands for public sector ‘neutrality’ uphold a harmful status quo. For civil servant Sophie Izon, it’s time to speak out
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After the ‘Arab Spring’
Despite the carnage of Syria and Libya and ruinous stalemate of Yemen, the euphoric appeal of the ‘Arab Spring’ continues to feed revolutionary processes across the region, argues Toufic Haddad
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Political blackness and Palestinian solidarity
The question of Palestine has become a black political litmus test, argues Annie Olaloku-Teriba, defining the very nature of black identity and politics
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Shaheen Bagh lives on
The women of a south Delhi neighbourhood have inspired a protest movement which will long outlive their temporary encampment, writes Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya
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My father’s 13 years as a Palestinian political prisoner
Shahd Abusalama recounts her father Ismail’s experience in the Israeli prison system and calls for drastic reforms
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Gaza is a children’s prison
There are one million children living in Gaza, trapped and under fire, writes Omar Aziz