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What do Italy’s election results mean for migrants?

7 Mar 2018 6 minute read

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What Italy’s election results mean for migrants

The election results come as no surprise after a campaign marked by racist violence, argues ...

Electoral posters in Via d’Alviano, Milan. From left to right: Liberi e Uguali’s (‘Free and Equal’), three right-wing posters, and a centrist one.

2 Mar 2018 6 minute read

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Where is Italy’s Left?

In this election, Italians are without a strong Left prospect, reports Alessio Perrone.

2 Mar 2018 4 minute read

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Women of Yarl’s Wood stand up

More than 100 women detainees are on all out strike. Those outside detention must show their support, argues ...

1 Mar 2018 1 minute read

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Introducing… Katrín Jakobsdóttir

Iceland's charismatic new Left-Green prime minister has big plans, but will the Left-Green's radical programme survive...

UK immigration detention deaths on the rise

1 Mar 2018 2 minute read

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UK immigration detention deaths on the rise

A record number of people lost their lives in UK immigration detention centres in 2017, writes Felix Bazalgette...

White saviours: challenging poverty tourism

1 Mar 2018 1 minute read

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White saviours: challenging poverty tourism

Norwegian activists are challenging ‘white-saviour’ attitudes that over-simplify poverty writes Tom Lawson...

16 Mar 2018 5 minute read

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Working class in Britain? You must be white

Kam Sandhu questions some persistent assumptions.

15 Feb 2018 4 minute read

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The trashing of Oxfam

Abuse must be eradicated but the attack on Oxfam is disproportionate, argues Maggie Black in this opinion...

Independence: a 2010 protest outside Gaudi’s La Pedrera in Barcelona after the Spanish Constitutional court struck down Catalonia’s autonomy statute.

29 Jan 2018 3 minute read

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Rajoy’s gamble failed. Now it’s time to negotiate

Brutally quashing the Catalan vote hasn’t stopped the separatists. Marc Almodóvar writes.

24 Jan 2018 5 minute read

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How Roma are made stateless for generations

Jonathan Lee reports on the forgotten victims of Europe’s last refugee crisis.

18 Jan 2018 3 minute read

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UK pushing dodgy Public-Private Partnerships

Carillion highlights how disastrous these can be – this policy must stop, argues Jenny Nelson.

A sketch of the proposed plan for the Camley Street sustainable development. Photo by Karukasevic and Carson architects

23 Jan 2018 7 minute read

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Priced out no more: how a London group defied gentrification

Radical plans might transform the way we approach development. Alessio Perrone reports.

17 Jan 2018 3 minute read

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Chagos islanders face second exile

The poor treatment of Chagossians is blight on Britain’s conscience. It must end now, writes Tom Guha.

17 Jan 2018 1 minute read

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Watch: Grenfell community’s Silent Walk for justice

Last weekend, a silent march commemorated the victims of the tragedy and demanded justice. Pablo Navarrete ...

5 Jan 2018 5 minute read

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Landmark verdict gives Arctic oil green light

But ‘Trial of the Century’ also cements climate protections, reports Ragnhild Freng Dale.

Musa Fata's social media feed shows a life of ease and abundance.

8 Jan 2018 3 minute read

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Kids at work: a migrant in Italy

Sophia Seymour and Daisy Squires shine a light on Musa Fata, a Gambian...

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