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Report: ‘It Scares Me to Think Where We’ll End Up’: The Renters Facing Homelessness Now the Eviction Ban Has Lifted

With the eviction ban lifted this week, thousands of renters have found themselves faced with the prospect of being made homeless during a global pandemic. Joining calls from activists and campaign groups, they are demanding that they be protected, reports Hannah Green.

Report: The Welsh Village Taking on the Armed Forces

The Royal Air Force has been using a remote Welsh airbase to train Saudi pilots to fly the fighter jets used to bomb civilians in Yemen. As public anger increases in tandem with rising deaths, Francesca Newton reports on the peace campaigners taking a stand against military expansion.

nursery children and teachers playing together

Report: Big Business Is Muscling in on the UK’s Nursery Racket

In Germany and France, around 3-4% of nurseries are private; in the UK, 84% are. All the evidence suggests that these nurseries provide worse childcare and working conditions. Is this the free market doing its thing, or the result of government negligence? Sophie Hemery reports.

Report: There Were Too Few Firefighters Working in London on Almost 100 Occasions in a Year, FOI Data Shows

Exclusive: There were too few firefighters on shift in London on almost 100 separate occasions in the space of a year, according to data obtained by freedom of information request. James Walker reports on fears about the service's capacity, as it prepares for a new wave of cuts.

Report: The Police Are Using Coronavirus to Crack Down on Protest

Police are forcing organisers to cancel demonstrations or face arrest and a £10,000 fine under new Covid laws. Activists say 'unworkable restrictions' and harsh sanctions pose an escalating threat to the right to protest. Rivkah Brown reports.

Report: How We Won: The Activists and Lawyers Who Stopped Asylum Seekers Being Evicted in Glasgow

A coalition of activists and lawyers took on the Tories' anti-immigrant agenda in Glasgow, using direct action and legal challenges to stop a government-contracted company making hundreds of vulnerable people street homeless. Lauren Gilmour reports.

Report: Italy’s Migrants Are Being Attacked From Left and Right. They Aren’t Going to Take It Lying Down

As regional elections approach later this month, and with a second wave of coronavirus expected, the Italian far right and centre are engaged in a race to the bottom on immigration. Alice Figes looks at the latest chapter in Italy's long history of xenophobia.

Jeremy Corbyn meets supporters in Middlesbrough, 11 December 2019.

Report: Labour Is Hemorrhaging Leftwing Activists. Will It Survive?

Thousands of Labour activists who were galvanised by the prospect of a Corbyn government have lost hope in Starmer's Labour - and are leaving the party in droves. Harriet Williamson speaks to some of them.

Report: ‘Land justice is racial justice’: People of Colour Are Reclaiming Their Right to Nature

While the UK land justice movement has gained momentum in recent years, the significance of land in the struggle for racial justice remains largely undiscussed. Yali Banton-Heath speaks with Josina Calliste, co-founder of Land in Our Names, a collective helping people of colour to the land, about the necessity of centring land access and food sovereignty within the wider struggle for racial justice.

Report: ‘This is Our Home’: The Ex-Mining Community Fighting Demolitions in Yorkshire

Residents of Wordsworth Drive and Sugar Hill Close, a privately-owned social housing estate in Oulton near Leeds, are fighting a developer seeking to demolish their homes and replace them with new, market-rate housing. Ethan Shone reports.

Report: ‘We’d Prefer to Die in the UK Than Go Back’: The Refugees on Hunger Strike Against Deportation

22 refugees at notorious immigration removal centre Brook House have gone on hunger strike in protest of their imminent deportations. Laith Saad reports.

Report: ‘It’s Been Too Long’: The Windrush Compensation Scheme is Setting Victims Up to Fail

Confronted with a failing compensation scheme offering hugely delayed and "insultingly" low payments, Windrush victims argue they have no choice but to fight for just renumeration. Sophie Hemery reports.

Report: ‘We Want to Breathe’: Anti-Racist, Environmental and Gilets Jaunes Campaigners Are Joining Forces in France

In France, Black Lives Matter has prompted campaign groups to form new alliances against racism and police violence. Olly Haynes reports on how the campaign for justice for Adama Traoré, who died in police custody, is joining forces with both environmentalists and Gilets Jaunes mutilated by police.

Report: Renters Unions Are Preparing to Resist an ‘Impending Tsunami’ of Evictions

Landlords hoping to ride the 'impending tsunami' of evictions stand to be disappointed as renters unions prepare to resist. Rivkah Brown reports.

Report: How We Won: The Customers Who Saved Their Local Market

With their beloved local market facing eviction, loyal customers banded together in what became one of the most innovative fights against gentrification in recent memory. Laith Saad reports in the first instalment of How We Won, a new series which celebrates the victories of grassroots campaigns across the country.

Report: ‘It’s All Performative, They Don’t Care’: Why Tate Workers Are Going on Strike

Facing redundancy during a national recession and global pandemic, Tate workers are going on strike, arguing that, despite the art institution’s socially conscious image, it is the lowest-paid and most diverse workers who will be worst impacted. Sophie Hemery reports.

Report: Coronavirus Has Made Things Even Worse for Migrant Workers on Spain’s Fruit Farms

Most strawberries sold in British supermarkets are grown in southern Spain, on fruit farms run by multinational companies that exploit migrant labour. Coronavirus has left fewer workers under pressure to meet high export targets, without PPE or cleaning products. Nic Murray reports.

Report: The Tenants Taking on Their Billionaire Landlord

A group of tenants in east London is locked in a battle with a billionaire landlord who wants to evict them for organising during the pandemic. Sophie Hemery reports.