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The erosion of state welfare systems have made life increasingly precarious within global society – especially for people who experience marginalisation.

Explore how social movements old and new are offering community, action and solidarity beyond electoral politics.

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The erosion of state welfare systems have made life increasingly precarious within global society – especially for people who experience marginalisation.

Explore how social movements old and new are offering community, action and solidarity beyond electoral politics.

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  • Children in a classroom stand with hands on their hearts

    Teaching in and against the state

    Should fascists ‘fear’ US public school teachers? Potentially, argues Ranita Ray. First, we must address educators’ complicity with state racism and violence

  • A black and white photograph of Groote Schuur, the country estate of Cecil Rhodes in South Africa

    Cape Fever – review

    Nadia Davids’ gothic tale evokes the suffocation of domestic service as a psychological duel unfolds between madam and maid, writes Fifi Bat-hef

  • A stock photograph of a baby being held by their parents

    We Grow the World Together – review

    We Grow the World Together’s collected essays are a vital resource on caregiving and abolition for those hoping to build a better world for future generations, writes Gracie Mae Bradley

  • An illustration showing a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat – wearing a bow-tie that says: 'EDI Training'

    Rethinking racism

    The left has forgotten our traditions of anti-racist analysis and organising. We must abandon liberal analyses, says Gargi Bhattacharyya, and see racism as an exercise of power

  • Against a white backdrop, a group of women in traditional African print clothing hold a banner that reads: Commemor-Action

    The migrant genocide

    Understanding the massacre of migrants making their way to the global north is a key moment of class struggle, argues Iker Suárez, and for halting Europe’s march towards fascism

  • A person holding a banner that says: 'Borders are problems not solutions' next to two protesters holding a sign that reads: 'Abolish reporting'

    Migrant power: organising, dignity and justice

    Siobhán McGuirk talks to Zrinka Bralo, founder and CEO of Migrants Organise, about the challenges and necessity of committed community organising in the fight for migration justice

  • Three blood-covered actors in a scene from the movie Sinners

    Sinners sinks its teeth into Irish settler colonialism

    Aisling Walsh celebrates Ryan Coogler’s thriller, which points a rare spotlight on Irish complicity in Indigenous genocide and racist violence