Long Read: 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.
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Facebook and Freedom: How Silicon Valley’s Ideology Masks Emerging Power
Karishma Mehrotra
Since its inception many have seen the internet as a space of freedom, without authority or hierarchy. But, Internet.org, Facebook's latest endeavour, suggests this isn't the case.
9 Times Video Games Were Great for Mental Health
Marijam Didzgalvyte and Jish Newham
Video games are often blamed for social isolation or mental health issues, despite scientific evidence to the contrary. Marijam Didzgalvyte and Jish Newham explore some of the games that have helped people cope with mental health issues.
Homelessness Charities and Local Councils are Helping Immigration Teams Deport EU Rough Sleepers
Luke Sheldon
Homelessness charities are sharing information with the Home Office and local councils are operating 'joint visits' with immigration enforcement teams in a collaborative effort to deport more European rough sleepers, a report has found. Here's what you need to know about this new racist attack on vulnerable migrants and the fight back against it.
Silicon Laggy: How Neoliberal Roots Hold Gaming Back
Simon Saunders
As part of our Novara Focus on video games and class, Simon Saunders explores how the gaming industry's origins and workplace practices have produced a conservative streak.
Long Read: 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.
Organised Rage: The LSE Cleaners Strike
Joe Hayns
The LSE cleaners, represented by United Voices of the World, have staged a two day strike to fight for sick pay, maternity and paternity leave, and pensions. Led by migrants and women, the strike shows the potential for grassroots, fighting trade unions to win big victories.
The Real Threat to the Union is English Nationalism
Alan Bradshaw
Yesterday Nicola Sturgeon announced her intention to bring a second referendum on Scottish independence. Meanwhile politicians in the Republic of Ireland were laying down a roadmap for Irish reunification. But it's English nationalism driving the latest divisions.
In Pictures: Buenos Aires International Women’s Strike
Ella Jessel (words and images)
Ella Jessel's beautifully evocative photo series captures the events of the International Women's Strike in Buenos Aires.
Long Read: 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?
Sex Work, Unpaid Labour, and the Strike
Margaret Corvid
Capitalism relies on the reproductive, often unpaid, labour women perform every day, including sex work. By withdrawing this labour on Wednesday the Women's Strikers were not just challenging sexism, but capitalism itself.
At Your Service? Migrant Women Workers in the UK Hospitality Sector
Ewa Jasiewicz
Migrant women workers in the UK hospitality sector face multiple and intersecting forms of oppression, which can only be challenged by social movement workplace-only organising.
The Casey Review Into Integration is About Humiliating Migrants, Not Unifying Society
Enda O'Riordan
A government-backed review into how to fix a divided society recommends making immigrants swear an 'integration oath' and placing more focus on British history in schools. Enda O'Riordan argues that it is unclear how this is anything other than a show of force, designed to humiliate, and ultimately likely to alienate, ethnic minorities.
Dangerous Women: Feminism, Class Struggle, and Self Care
Rosa Soros
Neoliberalism wants us to focus on feminism for the boardroom, to write radical women out of history, and to direct our politics inwards through 'self care'. Let's smash oppression instead.
Long Read: 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.
HE Reforms Have Been Rocked, but the Student Movement Must Keep Pressure On
Ana Oppenheim
This week the House of Lords passed an amendment to the HE Reform Bill, uncoupling the link between the 'Teaching Excellence Framework' and fresh fee hikes. Yet it's no time for the student movement to rest on its laurels, argues Ana Oppenheim.
Filling Up Seats: Charter Flights and the UK’s Unlawful Deportation Tactics
Lotte Lewis Smith
One man has been deported into destitution in Nigeria without receiving an answer to his asylum claim, and was given only one day to challenge his removal. Here, he speaks about the experience of being locked up and forced onto a flight under the cover of darkness.
Feminism in Argentina: From the #NiUnaMenos Protests to the International Women’s Strike
Malena Lenta
In 2015, a girl was murdered by her boyfriend and buried alive in Argentina, sparking mass protests across the country. Feminist activist Malena Lenta explains how this grew into a movement, which is now embracing the International Women's Strike