Society and people
Explore the social movements offering community, action and solidarity beyond electoral politics – feminist, queer, anti-racist, working-class, pro-migrant and more
Explore the social movements offering community, action and solidarity beyond electoral politics – feminist, queer, anti-racist, working-class, pro-migrant and more
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Burning witches and banning abortions made capitalism possible
Our economic system depends on a long and bloody history of controlling women’s bodies, writes Eleanor Penny.
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A mad world: capitalism and the rise of mental illness
What if it’s not us who are sick, asks Rod Tweedy, but a system at odds with who we are as social beings?
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University should not be a debt factory
Sheldon Ridley spoke to students taking part in their first national demonstration.
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Why did Americans vote for Trump?
The question commentators won’t ask is simple: what kind of society votes Donald Trump President? Siobhán McGuirk surveys the fragmented USA
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Ten things you can do to combat racism and xenophobia
#PostReferendumRacism has exposed the racist and xenophobic belly of Britain. Luckily, there is a lot that you can do. Siobhan McGuirk has gathered 10 suggestions, feel free to add your own below
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The Brexit nightmare: a scenario
Tom Walker imagines waking up screaming imagining how a hard-right ascendancy might follow a vote to leave the European Union
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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
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