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.
Fuck ‘Em and Their Law: Repression and Resistance in Rave and Grime
Alex Richardson-Price
From marches ending with street parties instead of speeches to illegal gigs under railway underpasses, political resistance in Britain has always had a banging soundtrack. As the sneering successor to the escapist rave culture of the 90s, does Grime have what it takes to finally fight the establishment head on?
Surviving Hostile Environments: Migrant Families With No Recourse to Public Funds
North East London Migrant Action
North East London Migrant Action reports on the barriers that many migrants face when attempting to access to public services and financial support.
How the Guardian Changed Tack on Corbyn, Despite Its Readers
Alex Nunns
In an extract from new book The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power, Alex Nunns examines how the Guardian newspaper reacted to Corbyn’s sudden rise in the 2015 leadership contest.
The Failure of The State And The Rise Of Fascism
Fanny Malinen
The rise of fascism isn't an exception from the usual smooth-running of liberal democratic states. It is the product of the ideologies that underpin such states: nationalism, colonialism and capitalism.
Structural Racism Has Big Oil’s Dirty Fingerprints All Over It
Steve Rushton
Steve Rushton examines links between the fossil fuel industry and racist pressure groups. Racist exploitation is at the heart of the fossil fuel industry, and its effects are most keenly felt by people of colour.
Immigration Detention & Deportation: A View From Jamaica
Luke de Noronha
Indefinite detention and sudden deportation are staples of policing UK borders. Luke de Noronha talks to Jamaican deportees who have been through this system, to find out more about life at the sharp end of UK immigration law.
Dissecting Democracy: History of an Idea
Alex Fusco
After a typical election in the UK , the government we get will be radically different from the government we vote for. As representative democracy sinks into crisis, it is high-time the UK questions its own political system and embraces real democracy.
Good Refugees vs Bad Migrants
Hector Uniacke
In international law and political discourse, 'migrant' is distinguished from 'refugee'. The latter is legally entitled to our aid, whereas the former can freely be treated with suspicion and contempt. But this binary obscures the conditions that gave rise to the so-called refugee crisis.
The World After 2016: 6 New Rules in Politics
Aaron Bastani
Brexit. Trump. The ubiquity of Facebook. The fracturing of historically-dominant political parties. The political certainties of yesterday are out of the window, and there's more up for grabs than we know.
Passive Voices: On Remembrance, Political Agency and the Rise of Trump
Eleanor Penny
Remembrance encourages us to think back over history to the situation of those who lived through it. Amid our current turmoil, we ought to reflect on how history happens - and our own role in creating it.
5 Things Momentum Needs to Do Next
Michael Chessum
Over the last few weeks Momentum has found itself at a crossroads. In this long read, Michael Chessum argues the organisation needs to embrace its internal differences and lay down some democratic expectations.
What Can We Learn from the Existence and Eviction of the Calais Jungle?
Brush&Bow
The closure of Europe’s largest unregulated refugee camp generated images of desolation and desperation, bolstering a popular narrative of the Jungle as only a problem, and the eviction a solution. But actually longterm volunteers say the camp offered residents a type of support and a sense of community that state asylum systems could learn from.
Defunding the Diaspora: Sri Lankan Tamil Communities at the Forefront of Government Cuts
Flora Hastings
Seven years on from the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, and the ongoing oppression of the Tamil community by the Sri Lankan government should make it harder for the UK to ignore the needs of London’s Sri Lankan refugees and incoming asylum seekers. But community spaces that support London’s Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora are struggling in the face of ongoing cuts to local governments.
Inside Patio Six
Zoe P-C
Our reporter talks to guerrilla fighters imprisoned Patio Six, a high-security unit in the Good Pastor prison for women, Bogotá. They recount their experiences of life behind bars, and discuss their hopes for the Colombian peace process.
Towards a Queer Crisis: On Capitalism & Compulsory Heterosexuality
Sophie Monk & Joni Pitt (Cohen)
For most of the history of capitalism, heterosexuality has been mandated by law. Sophie Monk & Joni Pitt (Cohen) examine the role of compulsory heterosexuality in capitalism, and consider how it can be disrupted.
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Communists? Red Scares, Then and Now
John Medhurst
John Medhurst examines the infamous 'Zinoviev Letter' incident, and draws parallels between the 'red scares' of the 1920s and the current media campaign to discredit Jeremy Corbyn and Momentum.
‘I’m not looking for a new England’: On the Limitations of Radical Nationalism
Kojo Koram
As UK politics veers wildly to the right, some people are attempting to rehabilitate a progressive English nationalism as part of a left project to push back against a rising tide of xenophobia and racism. Kojo Koram examines the limitations of this project.