Accommodation site on Manus Island by the Australian Government after a legal challenge led to the closure of the detention centre on the island (Credit: Matt Abbott) Interrogate motivations and amplify knowledge It’s easy to say ‘No borders, no nations’ but we must...
Photo by Martha Dominguez de Gouveia on Unsplash Handcuffed by a cannula, strapped to a cardiotocograph that monitors my baby’s heartbeat, I writhe with pain. The hospital bed physically and mentally shackles me. The aching pierces beyond the body like intense waves...
Jeremy Corbyn meeting with Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaigners. WASPI seeks to redress disparities in the state pension age for women born in the 1950s, who currently have to wait six years longer than their male peers (Credit: Jeremy Corbyn via...
Credit: Andrew Scudder When the issue of changing the purpose of production arises because of widespread social pressure – for example, over military production or a shift away from high carbon production – so too does the question of public ownership. Indeed, a...
Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo with his wife Cleo at the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings in 1947. Marxist poet Bertoldt Brecht can be seen in the background (Credit: Mesa County Libraries via Wikimedia Commons) American independent filmmakers have always...
Photo credit: Aidan Frere-Smith On 4 February 2023 Rishi Sunak reportedly said he was prepared to take the country out of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) as a way to improve the government’s legal position to ‘crackdown’ on those seeking refuge. One...
Photo provided by the IWGB For the past four years I’ve worked full-time as a food delivery courier. Like many, I was first attracted to working at Deliveroo because of the flexibility. This remains a chief reason why I continue to do gig work. I love the freedom of...
A protest in London against the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts (PCSC) Bill (Credit: Alisdare Hickson) With growing calls to defund the police, for a complete upheaval of the prison system and to end school exclusions, abolitionist politics in Britain has never...
Credit: Channel 4 Films Set in Sheffield against a post-Thatcher socioeconomic backdrop, the 1997 film The Full Monty follows six men as they search for work, money and meaning in a fractured landscape where all three are hard to find. The film was and remains a frank...
Credit: Eduardo de Leon Herencia The sun had barely risen over the slopes of Cotopaxi volcano on the morning of 19 June 2022 when the Ecuadorian police stormed the house of Leonidas Iza, the director of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador...
Credit: Better buses for Greater Manchester Despite private bus companies doing everything in their power to stop regulation in its tracks, Manchester is bringing buses back into public control. This is a story of people coming together to demand better transport and...
The City of London (Credit: Michael Gwyther-Jones) This year’s Sunday Times Tax List – the list of the 100 people who pay the highest amounts of UK tax – was published at the end of January. In revealing who the highest UK taxpayers are, it appears to celebrate those...