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  • A line of walkers stretch from the bottom right corner to the middle of the image, moving through a landscape of blue sky, wheat-filled fields and rolling hills

    Ending the horror of immigration detention

    Felicity Laurence reports on Refugee Tales, an action-based campaign publicising the voices of people held in immigration detention centres and subject to horrifying conditions

  • A protest outside a glass-fronted building includes people lying on the floor in a die-in pose next to five people holding a banner that reads: !! STOP FUNDING GENOCIDE with a flag of Palestine

    Fossil Free Books and the power of authors as workers

    Workers can transform the publishing industry for the better, argues Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, not only through justice campaigns but by collective organising that radically challenges the status quo

  • Several women holding placards at a protest, reading from left to right 'Kill the bill', 'We will not be silenced' and 'Priti out of order #Killthebill'

    Why would feminists trust the police – review

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

  • Skyscrapers in the City of London at night, taken during the 2018 super moon

    Vulture Capitalism – review

    Grace Blakeley’s latest book is a vitally needed analysis of the rot at the heart of neoliberal capitalism, writes Harry Cross

  • Protestors in London holding pro-trans rights placards, with one in the centre holding a megaphone

    Who’s Afraid of Gender? – review

    Butler’s book is an accessible call for a liberative politics of gender even if it is too charitable to anti-trans ‘feminists’, writes Jess O’Thomson

  • Handala, a character originally drawn by Naji Al-Ali, painted onto the West Bank barrier

    A Child in Palestine – review

    A Child in Palestine is a powerful tribute to the enduring legacy of Naji al-Ali, writes Jeanine Hourani

  • A former public baths and wash house in London now boarded up and abandoned

    Shattered Nation – review

    Dorling’s book offers a damning portrait of a crumbling Britain, writes Phil O’Sullivan

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