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The former Trades Union Congress race equality officer reflects on decades of black workers' organising within unions

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Funding cuts and reduced access are cementing the arts as a privileged realm. It’s time to resist ‘art-as-capital’ thinking, argues Tim Lutton

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Chapman's book offers a vitally needed theoretical framework for neurodivergent anti-capitalism, writes Gerald Roche

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An anonymous activist from the video collective Reel News describes how it has supported various campaigns since the pathbreaking rise of indie media

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Unnecessary, high-risk police pursuits are proving fatal. In Greater Manchester, families demandin change, report the Northern Police Monitoring Project

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Alex Roberts examines the multiple ways that the far right has responded to the climate crisis

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The rolling back of COVID-19 safety measures is leaving many marginalized people behind, writes Beauty Dhlamini

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Comments by senior Conservative politicians and lack of consequences are symptomatic of the party’s long-standing Islamophobia and racism, writes Stuart Cartland

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As colonialism expands in Ukraine, Palestine and everywhere, Global Justice Now convenes a global dialogue between anti-imperialist activists. Seema Syeda explains the ambitious, necessary project

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The struggle for an ecological transition from below by Florence’s ex-GKN workers is alive, writes Lorezno Fe

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Jo Littler examines how claims of a level playing field disguise continuing privilege

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Red Pepper celebrates International Women's Day by highlighting the work of CAIWU – a union representing women at the sharp end of exploitation and oppression. Ana Aguirre reports

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Politicians keep launching podcasts. The medium’s veneer of authenticity only works to reinforce establishment discourse, argues Daniel Eales

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Revolutionary pan-Africanist Walter Rodney understood Palestinian liberation would be driven by the people writes Chinedu Chukwudinma

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In a powerful speech at last month’s 'Still We Rise' festival, Naomi Klein explores what it is that the political classes are actually uniting behind in their defence of Israel’s crimes against humanity

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With his insights as a historian of the modern UK, David Edgerton looks at Labour’s new affinity with the Tories

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Labour’s spending plans are inadequate to rebuild public services. We need to new movements for more radical change, argue John McDonnell MP and Andrew Fisher

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The ‘carnation revolution’ saw soldiers, workers and communities join forces to overthrow fascism and challenge capitalist power. Peter Robinson traces events from April 1974

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The genocide in Gaza demands we fight for Palestine, by targeting circuits of power elsewhere. Toufic Haddad writes from Jerusalem

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Bad-faith policing of anti-semitism has led to rampant Islamophobia. In the global north, we have become conditioned to watching Muslims die, argues Maura Finkelstein

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