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Report: Student Rent Strikers Don’t Just Want a Refund – They Want to Smash Capitalism

Students across the UK are staging the biggest rent strike in almost half a century. Despite the new challenges posed by this lockdown, the strikers are only growing, both in numbers and political vision. Sophie K Rosa reports.

Report: Teachers’ Unions Won Big This Week. They’re Just Getting Started

The Tories' U-turn on schools was not merely the product of circumstance, but months of teacher organising. Now, with a multiplying membership and renewed confidence, unions are setting their sights beyond the pandemic to transforming their entire profession. Rivkah Brown reports.

Report: The UK Relies on Migrant Workers, but Refuses to Admit They’re Essential

In the Covid-era, our economy and society have become more reliant on low-paid migrant workers than ever before. But rather than recognising the integral role they play, policymakers are complicit in their exploitation. Sophie K Rosa reports.

Report: More Filipino Healthcare Workers Have Died of Covid-19 in the UK Than the Philippines. Why?

Filipinos comprise just 2% of NHS England’s workforce, yet 25% of its coronavirus deaths. Rivkah Brown reports on why the Filipino community has suffered so disproportionately.

Report: The Lawyers Leading the UK’s Fight Against Unjust Algorithms

Foxglove, a small law firm in London, has reshaped the conversation over tech regulation in the UK over the course of just a few months. Josh Gabert-Doyon speaks to Cori Crider and Martha Dark who started the firm, about holding big tech to account.

Report: Sex Workers Mobilise Against ‘Dangerous’ Bill Set to Criminalise Clients

Sex workers are mobilising against a controversial Labour bill, which proposes the UK adopts the 'Nordic Model' and criminalises buying sex. Such a move, they argue, would put their lives at greater risk. Sophie K Rosa reports.

Report: Why Are NGOs So Bad at Saving the Planet?

Britain's four largest environmental NGOs rake in hundreds of millions of pounds each year, but critics say they are near useless despite their enormous outgoings. Ben Smoke asks why the movement is failing to take the kind of radical action necessary to fighting climate breakdown.

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Report: Unable to Reunite With Their Families Post-Brexit, Child Refugees Face Untold Dangers

Brexit will make it far harder for asylum seekers to be reunited with their families. Unaccompanied children risk falling out of the asylum system and into the hands of smugglers and traffickers, reports Lauren Crosby Medlicott.

Report: How We Won: The Stripper Who Took Her Club Boss to Court

A stripper, with the help of her union, made history by achieving a landmark ruling that saw her legally recognised as a worker. Stacey Clare reports.

Report: Stop the Flight: Jamaica Deportation Shows Tories ‘Doubling Down’ on Hostile Environment, Activists Say

Just a week after a report found the government’s hostile environment policies broke equalities law and contributed to injustices faced by the Windrush generation, the Home Office plans to deport up to 50 men to Jamaica on Wednesday. Sophie K Rosa reports as activists race to stop the flight.

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Report: Is Coronavirus Incubating a New Student Movement?

Universities duped students into returning to campus, only to lock them down in halls. Angry and abandoned, students have organised rent strikes, occupations and protests. Is the experience of Covid on campus radicalising a new generation? Sophie K Rosa reports.

Report: Sex Workers Denounce Instagram’s ‘Puritanical’ New Rules

As Instagram announces its updated terms of use, sex workers argue the restrictive new rules are designed to eject their already stigmatised and marginalised community from the platform, threatening their income and safety in the process. Sophie K Rosa reports.

Report: Deportation Flights to the EU Have Increased Threefold, As the UK Rushes to Return Asylum Seekers Before Brexit

Exclusive: The UK has chartered as many deportation flights to the EU so far in 2020 as in the past three years combined, in a bid to accelerate the removal of asylum seekers before Brexit. Rivkah Brown reports.

Report: The UK is Rushing to Deport Asylum Seekers Before Brexit, New Data Shows

Exclusive: The UK is rushing to return asylum seekers to the EU before Brexit makes it harder to do so. Data obtained by Novara Media shows the UK made up to 154% more transfer requests to Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Ireland and Denmark this year, an uptick lawyers say has resulted in a catalogue of harmful and unlawful failings. Rivkah Brown reports.

Report: The Government Has Abandoned Carers During Covid-19. Now It’s Being Taken to Court

With carers across the UK receiving little to no support from the government, despite the extra challenges presented by the coronavirus pandemic, Francesca Newton reports on how some are fighting back in court.

Report: Policing of UK BLM Protests Was Institutionally Racist, New Report Finds

The policing of this summer’s UK Black Lives Matter protests was institutionally racist, according to a report released today by police monitoring coalition Netpol. Sophie K Rosa takes a closer look at its findings.

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Report: Psychiatrists Are Covering for Cruelty in Prisons. A Group of Campaigners Wants to Stop Them

Since 2015, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has offered prisons with extreme isolation units "Enabling Environment" status. In an open letter to the RCP, prison campaigners say the only thing the college is enabling is abuse. Sophie Hemery reports.

Report: The Tories’ Furlough Delay Has Led to Thousands of Needless Redundancies

As a result of the government's repeated and false insistence that there would be no extension to furlough, thousands of people across the UK have lost their jobs unnecessarily. Francesca Newton reports.