Society
In the UK and beyond, austerity and the erosion of state welfare systems have made sectors like health, housing and education increasingly precarious within our society.
Our analysis looks at the intersections of gender, race and class, and how social movements – old and new – can offer support, action and solidarity beyond electoral politics.
In the UK and beyond, austerity and the erosion of state welfare systems have made sectors like health, housing and education increasingly precarious within our society.
Our analysis looks at the intersections of gender, race and class, and how social movements – old and new – can offer support, action and solidarity beyond electoral politics.
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How trans rights activists changed Argentina
Argentina’s groundbreaking gender identity laws were won through longstanding activist traditions, diverse tactics and solidarity. The experience has lessons for us all, write Alessandra Viggiano and Siobhán McGuirk
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Reviving student action and strike solidarity
The Red Square Movement outline the recent history of student resistance in the UK and their work in organising co-ordinated national action
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Five years of inaction after Grenfell
Grenfell happened because of deregulation, writes Daniel Renwick. Five years after the disaster, far too little has changed
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Life and housing on an Oxford estate
Shortlisted for the Dawn Foster Memorial Essay Prize 2022, Connor Woodman writes on life and housing on an Oxford estate
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Carceral realism: Is there no alternative?
Punishment and imprisonment are deeply embedded in our thinking but as Oly Durose argues, we are capable of building less violent, more nurturing solutions to society’s problems
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The Tower Hamlets story
After years of false allegations, former Mayor Lutfur Rahman is running on a radical program to tackle the cost of living crisis. Ashok Kumar reports
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Political education for all
Political education is absent from our current system. The left should be providing alternative means of obtaining it, writes Shamime Ibrahim
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