As the anniversary of the WHO's declaration of a pandemic approaches, Grace speaks to Eugene Richardson, Harvard's Assistant Professor of Global Health, about how capitalism produces huge health inequalities – and what we can do about it.
Tonight, MPs will vote on the Police Crackdown Bill – a piece of legislation which threatens a fundamental principle of our democracy: the right to meaningful protest against the actions of the powerful.
In the late 1800s, working-class German women challenged the common sexism in the early socialist movement to assert autonomy – proving that they didn't need fathers, husbands, or rich women to speak for them.
Priti Patel's Police Crackdown bill introduces draconian new limits on the freedom to protest, but it also extends stop-and-search and criminalises nomadic ways of life – it is a fundamental attack on civil liberties.
The Police Crackdown bill gets its second reading in parliament today. It is the greatest threat to the right to protest in years – and is only one part of a Tory war against our democratic rights.
India's farmer protests have caught international attention in recent weeks – but from environmental and Dalit activists to those resisting Islamophobic laws, women are leading the resistance to Modi's reactionary government.
Capitalism is often presented as synonymous with freedom, but when the ruling class meets resistance it responds with violence – and exposes the coercion that sustains a deeply unequal system.
This weekend's police violence at Clapham Common showed that cases like Sarah Everard's aren't just individual tragedies – they are the product of a system which makes violence against women a daily reality.
This weekend's crackdown on the Clapham vigil was justified on the basis it was defending public health – but police violence doesn't protect us from Covid-19, it undermines the whole pandemic response.
Joe Sacco's iconic graphic novel 'Palestine' turns 25 this year. Its depiction of life under occupation is in keeping with his life's work – telling the stories of oppressed peoples that the powerful would prefer to forget.
For decades, Britain's governments have designed public policy to benefit property owners and landlords to the detriment of everyone else – in effect, the UK is a housing market with an economy attached.
For years, Italy was cast as Europe's basket case – plagued by political instability and economic malaise. But today its chaos looks less like an outlier and more like a model countries like Britain are destined to follow.