Asylum Magazine, founded in 1986 as a hospital ward newsletter, described itself for many years as a magazine for ‘democratic psychiatry’. This was a reference to the attempt by the Psichiatria Democratica movement in Italy to close down old mental hospitals, one that had partial success in Trieste.
In a major event in Scotland, one person was killed by armed police in a Glasgow hotel used to accommodate asylum seekers, reports Mike Picken. The call ‘not to politicise’ the incident from SNP and Labour politicians is completely misplaced. As the dramatic events unfolded on the afternoon of Friday
The Labour Party’s antisemitism witchhunt has just claimed its highest profile victim, with the sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey from Starmer’s shadow cabinet for the crime of tweeting a link to an interview with the actor Maxine Peake in the Independent. This decision, taken just a few hours after a peremptory
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Nursing Students in revolt over Tory Minister’s statement
25th June 2020
The graduating students have been caught in the middle of a Tory U-turn over nursing bursaries that has cost them each individually tens of thousands of pounds.
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Johnson and his government are sitting atop a mountain of at least 65,000 corpses.
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I learned so much and must thoroughly recommend this book. It is a book about where our politics come from and the experiences of an activist who gently tells his life story which is backed up with interesting sociology.
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Glasgow Anti-Racists defiant against Far-Right attacks
22nd June 2020
The demonstration was a great success in reasserting solidarity with Black Lives Matter and challenging the far-right backlash for control of Britain’s streets and squares. A strong, energetic and pluralistic anti-racist movement needs to be built in the days and weeks ahead.
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More than a Left Foot
21st June 2020
There are three chapters that explain clearly and in some detail the theoretical debates about disablement in capitalist society. The three periods in his life are woven together with the red thread of this political theory – he really does relate the political to the personal.
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Belgium’s colonial crimes in the Congo: a duty to remember
17th June 2020
Eric Toussaint writes that the Belgian state certainly has no monopoly on brutality, but it is fundamental that we do not forget, and that we restore the historic truth.