A significant and rapidly increasing proportion of people living in the UK are not only becoming poorer, but facing a daily struggle to meet their most basic survival needs. The number of people sleeping on the streets, or in tents, cars or on public transport, has roughly doubled since 2010, whilst the number of households
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by Sandro Mezzadra Liberté, liberté! This chant – belted out by 49 refugees and migrants in the moment of their landing at Lampedusa last Tuesday – contains the real meaning of what has happened around the Mare Jonio over the last few days, Mediterranea‘s ship. And this is the cry that narrates the drama of
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Since the fascist terrorist attack against Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, we believe that this article is urgent in understanding what fascism is and how to effectively fight against it. Simply labelling the recent fascist attacks as ‘mere anomalies’, or as ‘the acts of singular individuals’, ignores the structural racism and Islamophobia that permeate the
How to fight fascism: It might seem obvious, but is it? Read More »
Last Friday, on International Women’s Day, thousands of feminists of all genders took to the streets in seven cities across the UK to engage in the Women’s Strike, a global mobilisation taking place in over fifty countries. We have collected here the reports shared by the local organisers on the Women’s Strike Assembly page (pictures
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On the 12th March 2019 students, activists and academics have taken action against the visit of the former Italian Minister of Interior, Marco Minniti, the architect of Italy’s policy to externalisation of the EU border to Libya and the sealing of the Mediterranean route. A scheduled talk at the London School of Economics (LSE)
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