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Report: A Filipino Nurse Is Being Evicted for Having a Less “Durable Connection With the Area” Than Her Landlord’s Daughter

by Rivkah Brown

EXCLUSIVE: The care home nurse and her two sons are the latest victims of a state that recently declared itself racism-free.

Greek university students clash with riot police in Athens, Greece

Analysis: Police Brutality: How Protesters Resist State Violence Around the World

Novara Media spoke to those organising against police violence in Myanmar, Greece, Palestine, Nigeria, Chile, Colombia and the United States about what they’re up against, their tips and strategies, and the advice they have for protesters facing police brutality in the UK.

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Feature: Changing Attitudes to Death Could Help Us Create a Fairer Society

by Sophie K Rosa

Coronavirus has changed the way we grieve and forced more people to confront the reality of death. Is this an opportunity to radically transform our relationship to mortality? Sophie K Rosa reports.

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson with Sir David Attenborough talk to school children at the Science Museum for Launch of the UK hosting of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26)

Analysis: So Far, the Tories’ ‘Green Industrial Revolution’ Is Pure PR. This Year They Have an Opportunity to Change That

by James Meadway

A net-zero target with no plan to meet it, billions of re-announced funding - when will we start seeing the substance behind the rhetoric? Possibly at November's climate conference, writes James Meadway.

Opinion: Gypsies and Travellers Are Under Attack – And So Are Our Collective Freedoms

by Jake Bowers

From Priti Patel's police bill to a racist local Labour leaflet, Gypsies, Roma and Travellers are facing attacks from all sides. If GRT culture is stamped out, then everyone else’s liberties will be just one step behind, writes Jake Bowers.

Opinion: Being an Opportunist Has Worked Well for Johnson. Why Not for Starmer?

by Samuel Earle

Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer share a willingness to forgo principles in order to win votes. In the second piece of a new series on the Tories and how they hold on to power, Samuel Earle explains why this strategy is working for one but not the other.

Analysis: Unfinished Revolutions: What’s the Future of the Arab Uprisings?

by David Wearing

It is impossible to avoid the sense of epic tragedy that hangs over the Arab uprisings today, a decade on. But in the final piece of his series on the uprisings, David Wearing argues that the story isn’t over yet.

Opinion: Define, Divide and Rule: The Race Report Shows the State is Not Interested in Racial Liberation

by Annie Olaloku-Teriba

The race report fundamentally misunderstands racism - telling us it is interpersonal, rather than structural, and denying the role of class. This is no accident, writes Annie Olaloku-Teriba – in doing so it seeks to further an agenda as old as colonialism.

Official portrait of Bristol West MP Thangam Debbonaire

Opinion: Police Brutality in Bristol Has Shocked the Country. Why Won’t the City’s Labour Politicians Condemn It?

by Anna Lart Greene

Labour’s complicity with police savagery is an insult to Bristolians, one they are unlikely to forget come 6 May, writes Bristol student and Labour activist Anna Lart Greene.

The ever given blocks the suez canal

Analysis: The Suez Canal Block Told Us a Lot About Capitalism and Sovereignty

by Aaron Bastani

The Ever Given is free, but the brief Suez crisis demonstrated how deeply interconnected our world is. Europe and North America would never have said the blockage was an issue for Egypt to resolve alone - after all the implications were global in extent. So why are climate change, displaced peoples, pandemics and public health any different?

Keir Starmer wearing a suit and red poppy and looking worried as he holds his hand to his mouth

Analysis: Imagine Starmer is Polling Badly. Now Times That by Ten

by Ell Folan

On virtually no measure is Sir Keir doing well in the polls, writes data journalist and Stats for Lefties founder Ell Folan.

Analysis: Labour Has a Problem With Sex Work

by Sophie K Rosa

From supporting a strip club ban in Bristol to attempting to use the sinister new police bill as a vehicle to smuggle through an amendment that would further criminalise sex work, a certain set of Labour MPs seem fixated on a crackdown that women in the industry say would put them in danger.

Keir Starmer walks through Whitehall

Long Read: We Already Know Starmer’s Labour Ends in Tears – Just Look at the West of England

by Aaron Bastani

Rulebook-burning, a leftist purge plus a mayoral candidate nobody wants to campaign for have produced disaffection and despondency. We don't need a crystal ball to see what the future holds for Keir Starmer - it's happening right now in Bristol.

Protest following the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard in London

Opinion: With Our Right to Protest Under Threat, Collective Struggle Is the Only Way We Can Win

by Ilyas Nagdee and Azfar Shafi

By drawing on the historic techniques of Black community organisers, recent protests have served as a reminder that we must approach our struggles collectively rather than as individuals, write Ilyas Nagdee and Azfar Shafi.

Report: Clearsprings: The Worst Asylum Housing Provider You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

by Sophie K Rosa

You’ve never heard of them, but asylum seekers have. Clearsprings is one of the many companies to which the government outsources asylum accommodation, and widely known to be the worst.

A row of police officers wearing covid masks

Long Read: Who Dreamt Up the Police Bill? The Police, Of Course

by Sam Knights

The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill didn't come from nowhere. It is the result of years of lobbying by the police, helped by an authoritarian state, rightwing press and pliant opposition. Sam Knights takes a closer look at how it came into being.

A reveller at Newroz celebrations in Istanbul

Opinion: Erdogan’s Attempt to Ban Pro-Kurdish Parties Will Only Fuel the Resistance

by Rosa Gilbert

The HDP is facing its most extreme threat to date. But the broad coalition the party has convened isn't going anywhere, writes Rosa Gilbert.

Bill Gates at a UN press conference.

Review: Can We Solve the Climate Crisis Without Ending Capitalism?

by Aaron Bastani

Bill Gates has written a book on how to avoid climate catastrophe. He claims that capitalism, with a historic dose of state intervention, can help us rapidly decarbonise. He might be wrong, but in approaching ‘net zero’ as an engineering problem - rather than a political question - he offers an important perspective from which the left can benefit.