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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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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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  • Photograph showing frontage of Tower Hamlets town hall

    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

  • Black and white photograph of Angela Davis walking through crowd

    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

  • Home Office immigration enforcement van in London. Photo: Philafrenzy

    Where is the Labour Party’s immigration policy heading?

    As the Nationality and Borders Bill becomes law, Sabrina Huck attempts to decipher whether Labour’s immigration policy offers any promise of change for the better

  • Photo collage combining various photos of children in institutional settings and a portrait of Hans Asperger in the centre of the collage

    Who counts as autistic?

    ‘Autism Awareness Month’ fails to give autistic people any influence over discussions of their neurology, argues Gerry Hart

  • A screenshot from the video game Disco Elysium, showcasing some of the game's dilapidated architecture

    Pixels and mortar: The politics of video game worldbuilding

    With the worlds of architecture and video games becoming increasingly intertwined, Gerry Hart examines how video games communicate through their design

  • A banner on the gates of a university building read: Academic Boycott in Progress

    Universities, financialisation and the fightback at Goldsmiths

    Vincent Møystad argues that as higher education institutions are pitted against each other, students, staff and activists must come together to resist a costly race to the bottom

  • Hungarian Prime Minister speaking behind a lectern with the logo of the European People's Party (EPP) on it

    Hungary’s illiberal education

    Victor Orbán’s far-right government in Hungary sees higher education as critical to the consolidation of the ruling Fidesz party’s grip on society. Dorit Geva reports

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