If it is to win the next election Labour must junk Tory handbag politics
Next week’s elections are local but Labour’s lack of a distinct alternative indicates national problems to come. It must abandon Tory economic framing, writes Mary Mellor
Rethinking approaches to tackle human trafficking
Sallie Yea on the realities of labour migration and the shortcomings of anti-trafficking policies
When the people made television: the BBC’s Community Programme Unit
An exhibition revisiting a radically different, democratic approach to programming in the 1970s prompts Andrew Dolan to consider whether another BBC is still imaginable today
Review – Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism and Palestine by Nada Elia
Nada Elia's book touches on a number of interesting themes in Palestine's anti-colonial struggle, but ultimately fails to shift its focus from the academy and onto grassroots organising, argues Jeanine Hourani
Five years of FOSTA-SESTA
The US law has inflicted enormous damage worldwide on sex workers, while doing nothing to fight exploitation, writes Marin Scarlett
Youth disappointment as Nigeria chooses Tinubu
Peter Obi's campaign had inspired a new generation hoping for change. Adaora Osondu-Oti explores how, instead, the incumbent party won a bitterly contested election
Making a killing from the peace
The silver anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement is being celebrated in Belfast this week, but a booming arms industry shows the habit of political violence is hard for some to kick, writes Pádraig Ó Meiscill
Inside the Israeli panopticon
Israeli surveillance is used to crush Palestinian resistance and their model is being exported across the globe
The colonial roots of the Metropolitan Police
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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They are welcome here
The welcome given to refugees by local people in Folkestone undercuts the narrative that the public wants our borders to be closed, argues Bridget Chapman
Dinners for debt justice
Sheffield activists Ci Davis and Darcy White explain their work in the Jubilee Movement, a new mutual aid-based debt justice campaign
The long road to gender recognition reform
From bans on trans athletes to violence in the streets and attacks in the legislature, Jamie Jewkes traces the normalisation of transphobia in Britain
Solidarity across borders
As governments borrow from each other to expand anti-migrant agendas and regimes globally, movements to defend migrants’ rights must likewise share strategies of resistance
