Justice

Facing attacks on protest and strike rights, creeping surveillance and reduced civil liberties, we cover movements for migrants’ rights, prison abolition, decriminalisation restorative justice and more

Facing attacks on protest and strike rights, creeping surveillance and reduced civil liberties, we cover movements for migrants’ rights, prison abolition, decriminalisation restorative justice and more

  • 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

  • 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

  • Political blackness and Palestinian solidarity

    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

  • Muslim women protestors sat together at Shaheen Bagh protest camp in March 2020

    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

  • Ismail Abusalama, with a moustache, wears an orange shirt and stands against a striped background in prison

    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

  • A young boy sitting amidst rubble in Gaza

    Gaza is a children’s prison

    There are one million children living in Gaza, trapped and under fire, writes Omar Aziz

  • A line of French riot police with shields during the 2019 Gilet Jaunes protest

    Gilets Jaunes and the security state

    Olly Haynes reports on the violent crackdown on protesters on the streets of France

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