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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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  • Photo of Dawn Foster and text reading Dawn Foster memorial essay with logos of the sponsors below

    Dawn Foster Memorial Essay Prize

    Dawn Foster (1986-2021) was a brilliant and fearless working-class journalist who made a significant impact with her work on housing

  • A painting of prisoners in a dingy cell walking in a circle whilst being observed by a prison guard

    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

  • Illustration by Laurence Ware depicting a scene of covid lockdown and social distancing

    Lashing together a life raft: Covid-19 strategies for the left

    Reflecting on two years of Covid-19, James Meadway lays out the challenges the British left will have to adapt to and confront

  • 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