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
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Prison is not the answer
A humane society shouldn’t be caging up vulnerable people. Jasmine Ahmed of CAPE (Community Action on Prison Expansion) argues for radical alternatives.
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Citizenship in a capitalist state
Lea Ypi writes on the death of citizenship as a democratic ideal, and the collapse of civic politics into ethnopolitics
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Deleting Facebook isn’t enough: The rise of ‘surveillance capitalism’
The Cambridge Analytica scandal has put data harvesting in the spotlight, writes Tom Walker – but the problem goes far beyond Facebook
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Three years into the war in Yemen, the UK has blood on its hands
The government continues to provide Saudi Arabia with the weapons it uses to kill thousands of Yemeni people, writes Andrew Smith
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Prison abolition isn’t impossible. It’s necessary.
It’s time to take prison abolitionism seriously, argues David Scott.
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Our prison system is broken. Is it time to abolish prisons altogether?
David Scott argues that our prison system represents a human rights disaster, and reformist solutions can’t tackle the root problems.
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Who killed Agent Kingfisher?
Tom Palmer, aka Agent Kingfisher, was the ‘messiah’ of London’s squatting scene until his death last year. But who was responsible for his fate? MI5, late capitalism or simply a drug overdose? Matt Broomfield investigates.
