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Law, policing and justice

The anti-democratic tendencies of many governments are reflected in restrictions on the right to protest or strike, creeping surveillance, and the rollback of civil liberties.

In our section on law, policing and justice we cover how citizens are pushing back, from campaigns against police corruption to movements for migrants’ rights, prison abolition and decriminalisation of sex work and more.

The anti-democratic tendencies of many governments are reflected in restrictions on the right to protest or strike, creeping surveillance, and the rollback of civil liberties.

In our section on law, policing and justice we cover how citizens are pushing back, from campaigns against police corruption to movements for migrants’ rights, prison abolition and decriminalisation of sex work and more.

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    Is rave culture political?

    Despite facing state repression, rave culture continues to be a space for political expression and collective action, writes Alex Carter

  • A pencil drawing of a a mass protest stopped by a police line in riot geat next to a photograph of the same scene

    Quotas, protests and political monsters in Bangladesh

    Student power is resurgent in Bangladesh after the success of the antidiscrimination movement. Nafis Hasan questions what changes lie ahead

  • Three photos of encampments: one showing tents and flags, one a mass demo, and one a man in keffiyeh speaking in a microphone

    The view from student encampments for Palestine

    Students have taken sustained collective action against institutional complicity in the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Here, three activists reflect on the university encampments and the solidarity movement landscape

  • Two photos: A line of police speak to a woman pushing a pram; Punks do their hair in a 1970s squat filled with art and musical instruments

    How the crackdown on squatting cramped British creativity

    Ella Benson Easton explores how housing shapes the arts – and the impact of laws and funding cuts subtly killing alternative cultures

  • Three photos: A bald masculine person wearing court robes stands behind a bank of computers; a scene of levelled buildings and debris after a bombing; a crowd of smiling people wearing keffiyehs and Palestine flags holds a large pink heart sign reading Thank you, South Africa

    Palestine must be free, with the law on it side

    An interview with Ahmed Abofoul of human rights organisation Al- Haq on the need for international rights and legal mechanisms to stop the genocide in Gaza

  • A montage image features an illustration of a ballot box with ballots coming out the side, with butterflies around. In the centre is a photo of Nayib Bukele at a table with with military leaders

    The tech bro president ruling by force

    Hilary Goodfriend explains how El Salvador’s populist leader has retained power – and the implications of Nayib Bukele’s rise for neighbouring countries

  • A police van on fire in a English town high street. In the foreground, in front of traffic lights are heads and hands from a crowd of people filming the scene, or themselves speaking to cameras

    Rewriting the riots, from 2011 to today

    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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