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    We Grow the World Together – review

    We Grow the World Together’s collected essays are a vital resource on caregiving and abolition for those hoping to build a better world for future generations, writes Gracie Mae Bradley

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    Key Words: Peoples’ Tribunals

    Yasmin Gunaratnam explores a tradition of ordinary people holding governments, employers and institutions to account

  • Protestors in central London bearing signs and placards with the images of people who were killed by the police

    Inside The People’s Tribunal on Police Killings

    After years of waiting for change, friends and family of people who ‘died in police custody’ are coming together to demand justice from the police writes James Whitfield

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    How the left can support drug law reform

    It’s high time for the UK left to support comprehensive drug policy reform, driven by anti-racism and class consciousness, argues Carrie Lou Hamilton

  • 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

  • An archive photo of two men – Pat Pottle (who is lighting a cigarette) and Michael Randle – outside the Old Bailey

    Rebel verdict – review

    Michael Randle’s examination of an extraordinary historic trial is both serious and entertaining, writes Richard Norton-Taylor

  • Protestors will placards and red umbrellas. The central placard reads 'proud to be whores' in French

    Five years of the US’s futile FOSTA-SESTA sex trafficking laws

    The US law has inflicted enormous damage worldwide on sex workers, while doing nothing to fight exploitation, writes Marin Scarlett

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