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A group of women wearing keffiyehs hold a banner on a march

Opinion: The Green Party Is Great, But It’s Not Enough

Candi Williams & Anahita Zardoshti

Zack Polanski has revived hope that the left can turn the tide of British politics. But to actually do that, we need a party that can walk the talk, building working-class power from the ground up, write Your Party leadership candidates Candi Williams and Anahita Zardoshti.

MPs of the Green Party pose for a photo in London

Analysis: Here’s What the Greens Should Do Next

Adam Ramsay

There are good reasons it took the Greens so long to increase their seats in Westminster, writes Adam Ramsay. But breakthroughs demand ambitious thinking - and not being afraid to go toe-to-toe with Labour.

Report: ‘This Machine Kills Kids’: SUVs Hit With Spray Paint in Bristol

Clare Hymer

Climate activists celebrated after six of the polluting vehicles were targeted with spray paint on Sunday.

A person in a black top and trousers and wearing a black rucksack holds a red sign on which is painted in white paint: rent control now, decorated with two acorns

Report: Are Rent Controls Coming to the UK?

Rivkah Brown

40 years since Thatcher scrapped them, rent controls are back on the political agenda. Rivkah Brown reports.

Opinion: Local Politicians Are Scapegoating Sex Workers to Score Points With Voters

Layla Caradonna

Anti-strip club campaigns like Bristol mayor Marvin Rees’ are cynical vote-winning ploys.

Opinion: A Kill the Bill Protester’s Court Case Is All the Evidence You Need for Police Abolition

Vala Z Francis

A Bristol woman battered by police won a partial victory last week, but could still get prison time. Her case highlights the untenability of our police state.

Green party co-leader Carla Denyer sits on a red seat in Bristol city hall

Interview: Could This Be the Green Party’s Second MP?

Aaron Bastani

The Greens have quietly tripled their councillors since 2018. With new co-leader Carla Denyer eyeing a second seat in Westminster, Aaron Bastani went to Bristol to discover how she plans to overturn a thumping Labour majority.

The Colston four celebrate their acquittal.

Feature: The ‘Colston 4’ Won by Invoking History – And Using It to Build a Strong Legal Defence

Priyanka Raval

Since the Colston 4 were found not guilty last week, the right has sought to claim their win was ideological - an assault on the rule of law. This is simply not the case, writes Priyanka Raval: the group’s legal defence was robust.

A man on a ladder makes a speech to a large crowd on speaker's corner in London in the 1970s

Opinion: Free Speech Means Nothing Anymore

Lorna Finlayson

It’s tempting to rebut cancel culture panics by insisting that nobody has literally been silenced. This buys into a rightwing notion of free speech, argues philosopher Lorna Finlayson.

Analysis: Is Bristol As Radical As It Seems?

Between the Colston statue toppling and the Kill the Bill riots, it's easy to see Bristol as a bastion of radical action. In reality, the city’s working class is deeply divided, writes Priyanka Raval.

A demonstrator skateboards in front of a burning police vehicle during a protest against a new proposed policing bill, in Bristol, Britain, March 21, 2021

Long Read: What Happened to Kill the Bill?

Rivkah Brown

The PCSC bill is on the brink of entering law, and yet the movement to kill it has all but evaporated. Activists haven’t given up, though - they’re simply changing gear to a longer-term project of abolition. Rivkah Brown reports.

Novara FM: Police State of Mind

Rivkah Brown presents a special episode examining how the blue tentacles of police power creep into our lives.

Police officers stand guard during a protest against a new proposed policing bill, in Bristol, Britain

Feature: What Happened to the Bristol Police?

Rivkah Brown

A force known as relatively progressive has come to epitomise the extreme police response to the Kill The Bill movement. For some it’s a shock. For others, it’s business as usual.

Official portrait of Bristol West MP Thangam Debbonaire

Opinion: Police Brutality in Bristol Has Shocked the Country. Why Won’t the City’s Labour Politicians Condemn It?

Anna Lart Greene

Labour’s complicity with police savagery is an insult to Bristolians, one they are unlikely to forget come 6 May, writes Bristol student and Labour activist Anna Lart Greene.

Analysis: Labour Has a Problem With Sex Work

Sophie K Rosa

From supporting a strip club ban in Bristol to attempting to use the sinister new police bill as a vehicle to smuggle through an amendment that would further criminalise sex work, a certain set of Labour MPs seem fixated on a crackdown that women in the industry say would put them in danger.

Long Read: We Already Know Starmer’s Labour Ends in Tears – Just Look at the West of England

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Opinion: The Green Party Is Great, But It’s Not Enough

Candi Williams & Anahita Zardoshti

Analysis: Here’s What the Greens Should Do Next

Adam Ramsay

Report: ‘This Machine Kills Kids’: SUVs Hit With Spray Paint in Bristol

Clare Hymer

Report: Are Rent Controls Coming to the UK?

Rivkah Brown

Opinion: Local Politicians Are Scapegoating Sex Workers to Score Points With Voters

Layla Caradonna

Opinion: A Kill the Bill Protester’s Court Case Is All the Evidence You Need for Police Abolition

Vala Z Francis

Interview: Could This Be the Green Party’s Second MP?

Aaron Bastani

Feature: The ‘Colston 4’ Won by Invoking History – And Using It to Build a Strong Legal Defence

Priyanka Raval

Opinion: Free Speech Means Nothing Anymore

Lorna Finlayson

Analysis: Is Bristol As Radical As It Seems?

Priyanka Raval

Long Read: What Happened to Kill the Bill?

Rivkah Brown

Novara FM: Police State of Mind

Feature: What Happened to the Bristol Police?

Rivkah Brown

Opinion: Police Brutality in Bristol Has Shocked the Country. Why Won’t the City’s Labour Politicians Condemn It?

Anna Lart Greene

Analysis: Labour Has a Problem With Sex Work

Sophie K Rosa

Long Read: We Already Know Starmer’s Labour Ends in Tears – Just Look at the West of England

Aaron Bastani

Novara Live: Police Violence at Third Bristol Protest

Novara Live: Policing Bill Sparks Riots in Bristol

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Opinion: The Green Party Is Great, But It’s Not Enough

Candi Williams & Anahita Zardoshti

Analysis: Here’s What the Greens Should Do Next

Adam Ramsay

Report: ‘This Machine Kills Kids’: SUVs Hit With Spray Paint in Bristol

Clare Hymer

Report: Are Rent Controls Coming to the UK?

Rivkah Brown

Opinion: Local Politicians Are Scapegoating Sex Workers to Score Points With Voters

Layla Caradonna

Opinion: A Kill the Bill Protester’s Court Case Is All the Evidence You Need for Police Abolition

Vala Z Francis

Interview: Could This Be the Green Party’s Second MP?

Aaron Bastani

Feature: The ‘Colston 4’ Won by Invoking History – And Using It to Build a Strong Legal Defence

Priyanka Raval

Opinion: Free Speech Means Nothing Anymore

Lorna Finlayson

Analysis: Is Bristol As Radical As It Seems?

Priyanka Raval

Long Read: What Happened to Kill the Bill?

Rivkah Brown

Novara FM: Police State of Mind

Feature: What Happened to the Bristol Police?

Rivkah Brown

Opinion: Police Brutality in Bristol Has Shocked the Country. Why Won’t the City’s Labour Politicians Condemn It?

Anna Lart Greene

Analysis: Labour Has a Problem With Sex Work

Sophie K Rosa

Long Read: We Already Know Starmer’s Labour Ends in Tears – Just Look at the West of England

Aaron Bastani

Novara Live: Police Violence at Third Bristol Protest

Novara Live: Policing Bill Sparks Riots in Bristol

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