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From Scotland to Gaza: solidarity through copwatching

Gerry Hart — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Police monitoring organisations are exposing Scotland's repression of Palestine solidarity movements and challenging a 'supportive' national self-image, says Betsy Barkas

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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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Capturing an uprising: An interview with Wayne Campbell

Gerry Hart — Sun, 04 May 2025 07:00:00 +0000

George Floyd was murdered five years ago, sparking a global BLM uprising. Here, Thandie Keet speaks to visual activist Wayne Campbell about protest, art and solidarity in the US and UK

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Rewriting the riots, from 2011 to today

Siobhan McGuirk — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 12:47:14 +0000

Following the 2011 riots, the Conservative government used misleading narratives to embed its own agenda. We can’t let Labour do the same now, argue Suzanne Hyde and Chloe Peacock

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Why would feminists trust the police – review

Gerry Hart — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Cowan's book provides a blueprint for feminists to reject carceral thinking and build a more liberative politics, writes Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara

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Manchester families demand police accountability

Siobhan McGuirk — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 08:00:00 +0000

Unnecessary, high-risk police pursuits are proving fatal. In Greater Manchester, families are demanding change, report the Northern Police Monitoring Project

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Embedding racism: a brief history of border violence

Ananya Bhattacharya — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Siobhan McGuirk charts the development of UK borders and citizenship policies since the early 1900s

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The colonial roots of the Metropolitan Police

Rhian Jones — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 07:00:54 +0000

The Met’s institutional racism is inevitable given its key inspiration: the policing model used to quell Irish anti-colonial resistance, argues Kate Bermingham

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Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia – review

Ananya Bhattacharya — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 08:00:57 +0000

Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan's book does not shy away from vital connections between Islamophobia and the forces of global capitalism, writes Farzana Khan

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Playing dirty: sportwashing, corruption and lies at Qatar’s World Cup

Kimon Daltas — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 08:00:02 +0000

Qatar is leveraging the men’s football World Cup to sportswash its reputation and cement itself as a fossil fuel superpower, writes Freddie Daley

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