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  • A large colourful Save Brick Lane protest

    Misogyny, monopoly and marginalised communities

    Tower Hamlets Labour Party is deeply hypocritical, argues Tasnima Uddin, in its treatment of marginalised people and women of colour

  • A painting of prisoners in a dingy cell walking in a circle whilst being observed by a prison guard

    Carceral realism: Is there no alternative?

    Punishment and imprisonment are deeply embedded in our thinking but as Oly Durose argues, we are capable of building less violent, more nurturing solutions to society’s problems

  • Tower Hamlets town hall

    The Tower Hamlets story

    After years of false allegations, former Mayor Lutfur Rahman is running on a radical program to tackle the cost of living crisis. Ashok Kumar reports

  • Home Office immigration enforcement van in London. Photo: Philafrenzy

    Where is the Labour Party’s immigration policy heading?

    As the Nationality and Borders Bill becomes law, Sabrina Huck attempts to decipher whether Labour’s immigration policy offers any promise of change for the better

  • A mural of Nelson Mandela painted on the West Bank border wall alongside a quote of his

    Israeli apartheid: an international consensus

    Director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign Ben Jamal explains the impact of Amnesty International naming Israel’s apartheid crimes

  • Pimlico Academy, where students protested racist and discriminatory policies in March 2021. Credit: ClemRutter

    Banned words and racism in schools

    Continued use of ‘standard English’ in schools is a key means of upholding racial inequality. Furzeen Ahmed and Ian Cushing take a look at the history of banned words and racism in schools.

  • The global spectres of ‘Asian horror’

    Bliss Cua Lim looks at how the female ghost subgenre illuminates efforts to globalise ‘Asian horror’

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