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GE2019: Activists Are Helping Homeless People and Mental Health Patients Register to Vote

Sophie K Rosa

Just 2% of homeless people are registered to vote - most don't know they're able to. Sophie K Rosa reports on how after a decade of austerity cuts, the most marginalised in society are often the most disenfranchised, and on efforts to change this.

“We Refuse to Be Intimidated by Our University”: the King’s College Activists Fighting Back Against Racial Profiling

King's students

Earlier this month, King's College London was accused of banning a number of student activists from campus for posing a “security risk” during a visit from the Queen and Duchess of Cambridge. Writing anonymously, some of the students in question argue that what happened to them is part of a far bigger picture.

Israeli Apartheid Week: Why We Need to Reject the Commodification of Anti-Racist Heroes

Nkosi Zwelivelile

With apartheid very much alive in Israel, the history of the anti-apartheid movement and the legacies of anti-apartheid activists must be remembered and drawn on in fighting against these systems of racism and discrimination, writes Nelson Mandela's grandson, Nkosi Zwelivelile.

Ash Wednesday: Why Are Young Conservatives so Weird?

With the launch of Turning Point UK and their lightning quick descent into Hitler apologia, it begs the question, why are all these young conservative groups so weird?

Fast Food Shutdown!

Callum Cant on why it’s all kicking off everywhere (for fast food workers).

“It’s strikes that win”: UCU, Students and the Fight Against Outsourcing

Joe Hayns

Over the last two days, more than 100 outsourced staff have stopped work at UoL in what will likely be the largest outsourced workers’ strike in higher education history.

Lowkey Reports From the Grenfell Silent March

Since the tragedy at Grenfell, local residents have come together once a month to silently march to the site of the tower. Lowkey explains how this is a community with a history of organising in the face of adversity.