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Over 30,000 Palestinian People Were Killed by Israeli Forces Since Last October, and We Can’t Overlook the UK’s Complicity

Every child in Gaza is forced to starve by the Israeli regime, and the UK should be ashamed of itself for looking the other way

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Stop Disinformation: Accounts to Follow to Stay Up to Date on Palestine

Staying Up to Date on the situation in Palestine/Gaza doesn't have to be complicated. We selected some trusted organisations and individuals to follow.

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Solidarity with Health Workers: Capitalism Is Killing the NHS

The NHS will never achieve its socialist goals for our health under the cruel hands of capitalism.

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Dear Trade Unions: Could We Include Menstrual Leave in the Fight for Workers' Rights, or Is It Too Much to Ask?

Never have we needed trade unions more to protect our sexual and reproductive health rights.

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Rishi Sunak’s NHS No-Show Fines Are a Direct Attack on Disabled People

As a disabled person, Sunak's plan for £10 DNA fines makes me feel sick and subtly scapegoated again.

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France Is Endangering Its Democracy by Letting Two Far-Right Candidates Run For Its Presidential Elections: How Did It Get There?

The first round of the French presidential elections will unfold this weekend, and the country's political landscape has never been more alarming.

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The UK Needs Its Current Prison Abolition Movement If It Wants to Keep Us Safe

Powered by Black people, other racialised groups and campaign groups for decades, the police and prison abolition movements are finally getting mainstream recognition in the UK, and the system transformation they suggest is just what this country needs

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The Debate Around Social Care Policy Doesn’t Have to Feed the Culture War - It Can Feed a Class War Instead

If the NI increase tells us one thing, it’s that disability activism is the best shot we have at bridging the generational divide in UK politics.

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Dear Priti: You Can’t Always Wait for a ‘Safe and Legal’ Route When Your Country Is Thrown Into Chaos

No, meeting Afghan migrants at the airport isn’t a warm welcome when you're also trying to push through a bill designed to make their lives considerably worse.

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Afghan People Deserve Better than the West’s Islamophobic Media Coverage

Between click baits, insensitive headlines and white saviour narratives, the mainstream media needs to check itself - and fast.

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Colonial Violence: The Fight for Palestinian Homes in Sheikh Jarrah Continues, And It Has Nothing to Do With Real Estate

To suggest Palestinians should be paying their colonisers to live in their own homes would be an insult, yet that is exactly what the Israeli Supreme Court just did

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The UK’s In-Work Poverty Shows That Wage Stagnation Is a Racial Issue

With living costs rising and wages falling in real terms, communities of colour are once again bearing the brunt of it.

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Charities Were on the Frontline for Vulnerable Families Disproportionately Hit by the Pandemic

An Interview with Saiqa Pandor, a family liaison manager at Home-Start Camden & Islington.

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What Are We Actually Doing About Women Political Prisoners?

World leaders are weighing up human rights violations against economic deals, while we urgently need to free Nasrin Sotoudeh and Loujain al-Hathloul.

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An Interview With Taylor Small

We sat down with Vermont’s first openly transgender legislator, and fifth in the United States, to talk about what the future may hold for her and the whole nation.

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What the #EndSARS Movement Means for the Future of Nigeria

What lit the collective fire in the hearts of the Nigerians of the homeland and the diaspora to end SARS for good?