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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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  • Donald Trump in close up, pointing directly into the camera, mouth open wide

    The complicity of the white liberal left in the rise of Donald Trump

    There are deep reasons for racism in American politics, but the white liberal left has done little to prevent it, writes Mariama Eversley

  • ‘Faster, faster, faster’: The diary of a hotel cleaner

    In the opening post of a new blog project, the anonymous ‘Maid in London’ describes her first day cleaning a luxury London hotel

  • A still from the 2014 film Pride shows jubilant marchers connecting gay rights to the miners strikes

    Pride in the fight

    Siobhan McGuirk celebrates the solidarity – and humour – of a film about when lesbians and gay people backed the miners

  • Two men stand in suits holding up a save the date message celebrating same-sex marriage laws

    Married strife: going beyond marriage equality

    The same-sex marriage campaign has been successful, but LGBTQ equality is still a distant dream. It’s time to reassess our priorities, argues Siobhan McGuirk

  • Student protestors in London in 2010, with one holding a burning placard reading 'Stop fees and cuts'

    Behind a student kettle

    Tabitha Troughton reports from the December 9 fees demonstration

  • The Pope, dressed in all white robes with a large gold cross and small white hat – raises his arms and smiles to an out of shot audience

    Papal bull

    The left should praise the Lord for the Pope, says Terry Eagleton. The Catholic church is the best recruiting sergeant we could hope for

  • Italiano: Silvio Berlusconi al Grand Hotel Trento per la campagna elettorale delle elezioni provinciali. Credit: Niccolò Caranti

    Beyond Berlusconi

    Populist, authoritarian, xenophobic and sustained in office by a corrupt electoral system – but Silvio Berlusconi’s government isn’t the only one in Europe that can be described this way

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