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Published in:Home: InvestigationExclusive: Police Chief urged Priti Patel to use Extinction Rebellion ‘opportunity’ to curb protest rights
Boris Johnson says protest ‘a key part of democracy’. But new documents show Met Police boss urging government to...
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Published in:50.50Sex workers abandoned as COVID crackdowns undo Africa’s HIV efforts
Controlling COVID-19 is worsening Africa’s HIV epidemic and destroying HIV services, with sex workers facing...
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Published in:Pandemic BordersMigrants face a dilemma during COVID-19: uncertainty at home or abroad?
As the world economy struggles, more migrants are forced to return home or revisit their plans taken before the pandemic.
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Published in:HomeWhen an animal rights activist met a factory farmer
On the latest episode of the Changed My Mind podcast, we speak to Leah Garces about finding unlikely allies.
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Published in:TransformationCan a pandemic dislodge us from privatized parenting?
This is the perfect opportunity to bring wisdom from social movements into our families and vice-versa.
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Published in:openJustice: Opinion“We’re like sitting ducks”: how the Home Office is placing life and liberty at risk
New research reveals that the Home Office’s approach to immigration detention during the pandemic is unlawful and...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: Nearly 400,000 British companies evade anti-money laundering checks
David Cameron promised to stop scammers and kleptocrats hiding behind British shell companies. But almost one in ten...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionGeorge Floyd was lynched
Black Americans have seen their civil rights regress for thirty years
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionChina’s Covid-19 recovery is intensifying class exploitation
With increased marketisation and a sophisticated surveillance apparatus, China’s response to the pandemic is further...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionViolence against blacks in USA and Brazil, and their fight against racism
Violence has, to some extent, given political agency to blacks in the United States, whereas nonviolence has kept...
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Published in: Home: OpinionGeorge Floyd protesters expose the lie of liberty
To break the endless cycle of anti-black violence, we must go beyond the ballot box.
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Published in: ourEconomy"The old ideas are collapsing": an interview with Gar Alperovitz
The veteran political economist talks crisis, community ownership and the next system.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe post-pandemic future will be green or there won’t be a future
The world has changed with Covid-19. We should seize the opportunity. As much as we dream of returning to a lost...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWe must be told what Cummings and Palantir are doing with NHS data
Why is a firm backed by the CIA, and founded by a Trump-supporting billionaire, getting access to a massive store of...
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Published in: ourEconomySolidarity means dismantling the system everywhere
The infrastructure of racist policing must be dismantled brick by brick, dollar by dollar, police department by...
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Published in: ourEconomyHow big polluters are profiting from European public aid
The EU recovery programme is at odds with its planned European Green Deal.
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Published in: ourEconomyTermite Capitalism: how private equity is undermining the economy
From care homes to our high streets, private equity is corroding the foundations of society from within. It must be...
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Published in: 50.50Now, I have to take whatever clients offer for sex
I’m a sex worker in South Africa. Sex usually costs 70 rand (about $5), but now I have to accept half that, just to...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia“Iran’s airspace is not safe”: is more isolation the answer?
Will halting flights to Iran produce the desirable outcome and induce Iran into cooperation in the investigation of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationRevealed: Coronavirus self employment grant could cost you months of universal credit
A flaw in the Universal Credit system could "clobber" people receiving the government's coronavirus self-employment...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe revolution is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans
The Black Lives Matter protests are distracting me from everything else in my life. And that’s a good thing.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDemocracyWatch: The militarised crackdown on protests has haunted a world under lockdown
Across the world, Black people are first in line for pandemic human rights abuses.
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Published in: TransformationThirty articles on nonviolent protest
Even under aggressive provocation, nonviolence remains the key to success in the struggle against injustice.
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Published in: openMovementsWe are all in this together: from global pandemic to global solidarities
To be effective, social movements’ actions must be grounded in effective organisational dynamics and democratic...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaProtestors defy curfew as Raleigh (NC) values property over life
Protests over the death of George Lloyd carry on despite curfews in many cities across the US. In Raleigh, as...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Dismantling democracy – the right to be entertained
It is not enough any more to call populists names. Calling them fascists has ceased to make any impression on many...