Society and people
Explore the social movements offering community, action and solidarity beyond electoral politics – feminist, queer, anti-racist, working-class, pro-migrant and more
Explore the social movements offering community, action and solidarity beyond electoral politics – feminist, queer, anti-racist, working-class, pro-migrant and more
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Fighting for Cardboard City
Winner of the Dawn Foster Memorial Essay Prize: Jessica Field charts the stresses of frontline housing activism from a 1950s estate and community under threat
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Green dreams, empty coffers shape Nottingham’s rebuild
As city centre redevelopment plans rumble on, Siobhán McGuirk asks if the East Midlands city can put people before private interests
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How trans rights activists changed Argentina
Argentina’s groundbreaking gender identity laws were won through longstanding activist traditions, diverse tactics and solidarity. The experience has lessons for us all, write Alessandra Viggiano and Siobhán McGuirk
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Reviving student action and strike solidarity
The Red Square Movement outline the recent history of student resistance in the UK and their work in organising co-ordinated national action
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In Hastings, solidarity with migrants knows no borders
Coalition building is essential practice in the battle for immigrants’ rights. In threatening times, groups big and small must unite to win
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Five years of inaction after Grenfell
Grenfell happened because of deregulation, writes Daniel Renwick. Five years after the disaster, far too little has changed
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A view of the housing crisis from Hull
By Jon Bailey, shortlisted for the Dawn Foster Memorial Essay Prize 2022