I Was Forcibly Removed From the UK on a Charter Flight
John, a former detainee.
A member of Freed Voices recounts his gut wrenching experience of being indefinitely detained, then removed from
“Target/Tackle”: A Hostile Environment for the Homeless
North East London Migrant Action
Three of the UK’s biggest homelessness charities are collaborating with Home Office immigration enforcement teams on the detention and deportation of European rough sleepers.
Eduardo Chibás: The Life and Times of a Populist
Felix Holtwell
Eduardo Chibás rose to prominence on a populist platform - but the movement he headed collapsed rapidly after his death. What can we learn from the extraordinary life of this cuban politician?
Killing Us Softly: A Short History of Biopower in the NHS
Sophie Monk and Joni Cohen
This week's long read exposes the phony narrative of an NHS for all, instead revealing an institution that has, from its conception, existed to serve the needs of capital.
Mapping Dystopia: The Hidden Shame of Fortress Europe
Marienna Pope-Weidemann
With warnings that as many as one million migrants are already on the way to to Libya and Europe from countries across Africa, Europe's refugee crisis seems set to get even worse. As one of the wealthiest countries in the world, Britain has the wherewithal to really help. But, more interested in shirking than sharing responsibility, it might just be the worst of them all.
Playing the Whore: Police Work vs Sex Work
Melissa Gira Grant
The violence and prurience characterising police attitudes towards sex workers reveal that efforts to curtail prostitution aren't about charity, or about 'rescuing' workers from situations of dire need. They are about control.
Two Months Under the Executive Order: Whiteness, the Muslim Ban, and Me
A Revoked Migrant
An account of one Iranian-American's experiences in the 2 months since the Trump administration's Muslim Ban was brought into effect. This essay has been anonymised to protect the author's visa status.
Inside the UK Fighting Games Community: Arcades, Grime and Classless Meritocracy
Marijam Didzgalvyte
Rounding off the articles for this week’s Focus on video games and politics, Marijam Didzgalvyte interviews Darkos Strife and Danielle Nelson about life in the fighting games community.
Liberal Feminism Is Not a Winning Strategy in Gaming
Marijam Didzgalvyte
Our Focus on video games and politics continues as Marijam Didzgalvyte considers how we can take on the gendered impact of the industry's supply chains.
Ahmad and the Theatre: Life in the Refugee Squats of Athens
Federico Annibale
Federico Annibale talks to migrant in Athens, where squats provide an alternative to the sometimes harsh and humiliating conditions in refugee camps.
Who Gets Sick From Yellow Fever? What Carceral Feminism Does Not See
Kate Sim
Who absorbs the invisible, material costs of the so-called 'Asian fetish?' What does this tell us about borders, globalization and the limitations of carceral approaches to sexual violence?
Unsettling Feminism and the Politics of the Prison Break: Ash Sarkar In Conversation with Alana Lentin
Ash Sarkar
As part of our week-long Women's Strike focus, Novara Media Senior Editor Ash Sarkar interviews political sociologist and social theorist Alana Lentin about racialised exclusions from femininity and strategies for unsettling the existing social order.
The End of a Unionist Majority: Where Next for Northern Ireland?
Donnacha Kirk
The northern Irish assembly elections ended the long-term unionist majority in Stormont. Donnacha Kirk on what just happened, what it means, and how things may play out.
‘Who is the government protecting from what?’: Borders and Backlashes in Australia’s Long Sixties
Jon Piccini
As nationalist politicians line up to praise Australia's border policing, Jon Piccini examines the history of its migration policy - and the resistance it engendered - during the 'long sixties' of 1966-72.
How Platform Cooperativism Can Unleash The Network
Trebor Scholz
Trebor Schulz argues that we need to re-imagine the way we organise work and ownership in high-tech industries.
What Can Ghana’s Media Landscape Teach Us About Press Freedom Under Neoliberalism?
Alice McCool
How do we ensure a free press when neoliberal media institutions are so bound up with private and state interests? Alice McCool talks to Ghanaian journalists about the relationship between private enterprise, state power, and press freedom.
‘A real revolution is a mass of contradictions’: Interview with a Rojava Volunteer
Rojava Solidarity Cluster
Peter Loo headed for Rojava in October 2016. In this interview he reflects on his experiences so far, from politics and the economy, to feminism, meeting other volunteers, and Rojava's relationship to other combatants in the Syrian civil war.
A Brief Theory of Queer Violence
Sophie Monk and Joni (Pitt) Cohen
Queer oppression is underwritten by structural violence. Sophie Monk and Joni (Pitt) Cohen write that we must find ways of transforming that violence into a force for change.