Justice
Restrictions on the right to protest or strike, creeping surveillance and the rollback of civil liberties are exposing states’ anti-democratic tendencies. We cover the resistance, from campaigns against police corruption to movements for migrants’ rights, prison abolition, decriminalisation and more
Restrictions on the right to protest or strike, creeping surveillance and the rollback of civil liberties are exposing states’ anti-democratic tendencies. We cover the resistance, from campaigns against police corruption to movements for migrants’ rights, prison abolition, decriminalisation and more
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Prison abolition isn’t impossible. It’s necessary.
It’s time to take prison abolitionism seriously, argues David Scott.
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Our prison system is broken. Is it time to abolish prisons altogether?
David Scott argues that our prison system represents a human rights disaster, and reformist solutions can’t tackle the root problems.
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Who killed Agent Kingfisher?
Tom Palmer, aka Agent Kingfisher, was the ‘messiah’ of London’s squatting scene until his death last year. But who was responsible for his fate? MI5, late capitalism or simply a drug overdose? Matt Broomfield investigates.
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Burning witches and banning abortions made capitalism possible
Our economic system depends on a long and bloody history of controlling women’s bodies, writes Eleanor Penny.
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The police are not here to protect you
The police spend little of their time making arrests, and most crimes are not solved, writes Alex Vitale – their real purpose is social control
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West Papua’s silent genocide
The brutal occupation of West Papua is under-reported – but UK and US corporations are profiting from the violence, write Eliza Egret and Tom Anderson
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One-state in Palestine: equality, democracy and justice
Omar Barghouti asks: has Donald Trump’s break with the two-state solution unwittingly revived the possibility of a single, democratic state in historic Palestine?
