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

After the Gaza Freedom Flotilla

Ewa Jasiewicz considers the impact of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and its violent raid by Israel, in Palestine, Israel and internationally

27 September 2010
Enduring exile of the world’s refugees

Some six million people are trapped in mainly poor countries as long-term refugees, writes the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres

11 December 2008
For the love of oil

Mehri Honarbin-Holliday details the long and nefarious history of how US and UK interference has repeatedly crushed Iranian democracy – and halted people’s movements for peace

1 December 2007
Western warmongering serves repression in Iran

Iranian President Ahmadinejad has failed to deliver on his 2005 election promise to ‘put the oil money on the people’s tables’. In this context, western aggression is a godsend for his regime, write Andreas Malm and Shora Esmailian

1 November 2007
Defending the right to protest

Shami Chakrabarti examines the implications of New Labour’s expansion of anti-terror laws, and what it means for the right to protest

1 December 2003
Was High Court DSEi ruling aimed at stifling Bush protests?

Activists are increasingly worried that a High Court ruling made in October has given police the green light to use anti-terrorism laws to clamp down on people’s right to peaceful protest

1 December 2003