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We Grow the World Together – review

Gerry Hart — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000

We Grow the World Together's collected essays are a vital resource on caregiving and abolition for those hoping to build a better world for future generations, writes Gracie Mae Bradley

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Key Words: Peoples’ Tribunals

Siobhan McGuirk — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Yasmin Gunaratnam explores a tradition of ordinary people holding governments, employers and institutions to account

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Inside The People’s Tribunal on Police Killings

Gerry Hart — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000

After years of waiting for change, friends and family of people who 'died in police custody' are coming together to demand justice from the police writes James Whitfield

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How the left can support drug law reform

Gerry Hart — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 07:00:00 +0000

It’s high time for the UK left to support comprehensive drug policy reform, driven by anti-racism and class consciousness, argues Carrie Lou Hamilton

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Is rave culture political?

Siobhan McGuirk — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 09:42:31 +0000

Despite facing state repression, rave culture continues to be a space for political expression and collective action, writes Alex Carter

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Rebel verdict – review

Ananya Bhattacharya — Mon, 08 May 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Michael Randle's examination of an extraordinary historic trial is both serious and entertaining, writes Richard Norton-Taylor

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Five years of the US’s futile FOSTA-SESTA sex trafficking laws

Kimon Daltas — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 07:00:06 +0000

The US law has inflicted enormous damage worldwide on sex workers, while doing nothing to fight exploitation, writes Marin Scarlett

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The Manchester Ten and the injustice of ‘conspiracy’ charges

Liam Kennedy — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 07:00:47 +0000

Roxy Legane unpicks the racist gang-making at the heart of a recent case in Manchester and asks what an alternative approach to harm might look like

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Carceral realism: Is there no alternative?

Gerry Hart — Sat, 28 May 2022 07:00:32 +0000

Punishment and imprisonment are deeply embedded in our thinking but as Oly Durose argues, we are capable of building less violent, more nurturing solutions to society's problems

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My father’s 13 years as a Palestinian political prisoner

Kimon Daltas — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 21:23:13 +0000

Shahd Abusalama recounts her father Ismail's experience in the Israeli prison system and calls for drastic reforms

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