MP Nadine Dorries unveiled 20 ‘reasons’ for lowering the abortion limit to 20 weeks. Here Laurie Penny gives 24 reasons why it should remain at 24 weeks
Peter Tatchell says pornography doesn’t have to be oppressive. It can be liberating and fulfilling
Peter Tatchell says the Greens are now the radical left party.
The alternative media are more than a source of news; they help keep the democratic process alive writes Gary Younge
Shami Chakrabarti examines the implications of New Labour’s expansion of anti-terror laws, and what it means for the right to protest
The protest songs for which Bob Dylan is most famous were written in a 20-month burst in the early 1960s. Within a year Dylan had turned his back on them – not in renunciation of politics, argues Mike Marqusee, but to pursue a deeper kind of radicalism
As the US runs roughshod over international law, Harold Pinter demands justice for Cuba. Eleanor Janega and Jane Holgate contribute their views.