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Report: ‘I Felt My Rib Give’: People Attacked By Police While Protesting Anti-Drag Demo Speak Out

by Clare Hymer

People opposing a rightwing demo say they were crushed, kicked and beaten by police officers, with one even being “picked up by the throat and thrown”.

Opinion: No Job, No Rent: I Was a Full-Time Militant in the Nineties

by Seth Wheeler

The 1990s saw an explosion in self-organised, militant anti-capitalist activity. This was made possible by squatting and the dole - without which the left has been fundamentally changed.

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Feature: Where Are the Shadwell Fire Survivors Supposed to Go?

by Rivkah Brown

Two months after their state-sanctioned slum burned down, killing one of their housemates, six of the Tower Hamlets fire survivors remain homeless. Rivkah Brown reports.

Dirk Campbell interrupting Jacob Rees-Mogg. Photo: Extinction Rebellion

Report: ‘Shaming, Othering and Scapegoating’: Protestor on Why He Ambushed Jacob Rees-Mogg

by Simon Childs

Dirk Campbell was bundled off stage after he interrupted the former Brexit minister to warn about fascism.

Interview: How Leftwingers Could Help Take Down Erdoğan

by Steven Methven

Novara Media spoke to Ertuğrul Kürkcü, honorary president of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), about how a leftwing alliance is giving Kılıçdaroğlu a fighting chance of defeating Erdoğan in Turkey’s elections.

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Opinion: Israeli Apartheid Won’t End Itself

by Omar Barghouti

BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti on why, as settler-colonial ‘democracy’ crumbles, the movement is more necessary than ever.

Home secretary Suella Braverman, a speaker at the National Conservatism 2023 conference. REUTERS/Toby Melville

Report: These Conservatives Won’t Let Us Watch Their Weird Far-Right Conference

by Simon Childs

Novara Media was denied accreditation to a conference where cranks are talking about the future of conservatism due to “limited space”.

A protester in Paris on May Day. Olly Haynes

Feature: French Protesters Are Thinking Up New Ways to Stop Macron’s Pension Reforms

by Olly Haynes

At a massive May Day march in Paris, leftists say the movement needs to step up its actions to win. Olly Haynes reports.

Opinion: Wanting Scottish Independence Shouldn’t Have to Mean Loving the EU

by Jonathon Shafi

For many in the Scottish national movement, independence has become synonymous with support for rejoining the EU. That’s not a good thing, argues Jonathon Shafi.

UCU members march during a strike in London in November 2022. WIktor Szymanowicz via Reuters Connect

Report: Universities Are Docking Lecturers’ Entire Pay for Not Marking a Few Exams

by Polly Smythe

Academic staff face losing their entire month's pay over a marking and assessment boycott which will see them refuse a few hours' work.

Feature: The Biggest ‘Renewable’ Power Plant in the UK Burns Wood Processed in Poor, Black Communities in the US

by Simon Childs

Protesters disrupted the AGM of Britain’s largest CO2 emitter, accusing it of ‘environmental racism’.

Feature: As Food Prices Hit a 45-Year High, People Are Foraging Wild Foods to Save Money

by Chloe Laws

With food prices skyrocketing, people have been trying to shoplift their way out of the cost of living crisis for a while. Now, others are turning to foraging.

Analysis: It’s Time for a Republican Movement – And Young People Will Lead It

by Kimberly McIntosh

Millennials and Gen Z have been accused of killing many an institution, from hook-up culture to the after-work happy hour. Could the monarchy be next?

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey smashes through a blue wall at a rally in Buckinghamshire

Opinion: The Lib Dems Are Britain’s Worst Political Party

by Aaron Bastani

The Lib Dems’ toxic mix of inertia, anti-politics and misinformation serves to undermine trust in politics, writes Aaron Bastani - far more so than either Labour or the Tories.

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Report: One of the People Suing Labour Over Leaked Antisemitism Report Used Antisemitic Slurs

by Rivkah Brown

Julie Cattell, a non-Jewish Labour candidate in Brighton & Hove, told Jewish people they weren’t real Jews. Rivkah Brown reports.

Customers leaving an Apple store in London. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett

Report: Apple’s ‘Union-Busting’ Tactics Have Come to the UK

by Polly Smythe

Retail workers for the tech giant told Novara Media they have been subjected to 'union-busting' meetings, and forbidden from discussing the union at work.

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Analysis: All Hail the Landlord King

by Ell Folan

Charles III owns all of Regent Street, and that’s barely a fraction of his property empire, writes Ell Folan.

Opinion: Who’s to Blame for Deep Poverty in Scotland?

by Jonathon Shafi

New research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows a stark rise in levels of deep poverty in Scotland. Yet the problem isn’t only to be found in Westminster, argues Jonathon Shafi.