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11 Feb 2022 4 minute read

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‘It’s a liberation struggle for us’

After centuries of government exclusion a new generation of Romani activists is fighting back. Conrad Landin...

Dale Farm has become a famous site for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities – as well as for violent evictions at the hands of police. As part of the Drive2Survive campaign, this summer protesters visited the site to stand in opposition to the UK’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which is set to place further criminal curbs on travelling people. HUW POWELL

8 Feb 2022 4 minute read

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The ground beneath our feet

Jake Bowers argues for the rights of travelling peoples to live and move through the landscapes they call...

Defiantly demanding change in Brooklyn, New York. SAANYA ALI/MAJORITY WORLD

16 Nov 2020 5 minute read

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Care not cops

Amy Hall on why defunding police departments could be the most caring thing to do.

Marcia Rigg speaks at the annual UFFC rally in 2015. Photo: Panther Manchanda

30 Oct 2020 7 minute read

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‘I cannot accept that there is no accountability’

Amy Hall speaks to Marcia Rigg of the United Families and Friends Campaign...

A small-scale farm worker pictured in Tanzania. (Alun McDonald/Oxfam)

22 Oct 2020 5 minute read

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Does international development still have a problem with racism?

Nikki van der Gaag remembers the history of race and representation discussions in the development sector...

31 Aug 2020 3 minute read

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Why Indian outrage over Black Lives Matter rings hollow

Anti-blackness is still a galvanizing force in India, writes Nilanjana Bhowmick.

Terrence Floyd, George Floyd's brother, speaks at his brother's memorial at Chicago Ave and E 38th St in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Credit: Lorie Shaull/Flickr

4 Jun 2020 7 minute read

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Police brutality is not just a US problem

Amy Hall on why the Black Lives Matter movement is once again resonating around the world.

Protestors from Global Justice Now demonstrate outside the Home Office in London demanding an end to the Hostile Environment policy, ahead of parliamentary debate on the Windrush scandal. April, 2018. David Mirzoeff/Global Justice Now

26 Apr 2020 5 minute read

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The hostile environment in housing

Minnie Rahman on the legal fight against the British government’s racist ‘right to rent’ policy.

30 Jul 2019 4 minute read

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The architecture of cruelty

Architecture is never neutral, explains Laith Kharus Whitwham. But can it be made to truly serve the public...

26 Mar 2019 6 minute read

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The far-right international

Simon Childs on the strengths and limits of far-right co-ordination.

14 Jan 2019 5 minute read

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Do we fetishize indigenous people?

Working on a documentary about the Moken ‘Sea Gypsies’ prompted Julian Sayarer to examine the West’s obtuse...

30 Nov 2018 6 minute read

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The coerced sterilization of Indigenous women

The shocking eugenicist policies can be seen as attempted cultural genocide, argues Jaipreet Virdi

20 Nov 2018 4 minute read

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Why we need Islamophobia Awareness Month

We must move beyond talk of prejudice and address the root causes of anti-Muslim violence, writes Suhaiymah Manzoor-...

26 Apr 2018 3 minute read

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Against shithole nationalism

We're up against a long history of bigotry, ignorance and disdain, writes Mark Engler

1 Oct 2017 3 minute read

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Down with America’s racist monuments

It should not be controversial to take down statues of defenders of slavery, writes Mark Engler.

15 May 2017 3 minute read

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Let's make this election campaign hate-free – for once

Fizza Qureshi and Helen Drewery write an open letter to candidates and commentators to...

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