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  • Illustrations of broken chains in the background of a photo of two protestors holding up placards at a BLM rally

    The only way left is always anti-racist

    Any new socialist organisation must put proletarian anti-racism at its heart and embrace utopian pragmatism, write Joshua Virasami and Jonas Marvin

  • A montage of graffiti style colours cover a rave scene with a banner that reads: 'The city is ours'

    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

  • 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 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

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