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Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
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.
In 2018, Lula led every poll for Brazil’s presidential election before he was stitched up with false corruption charges – now he’s vindicated, free to run in 2022 and ready to beat Bolsonaro.
In January 1993, women from mining communities set up camps at seven mines facing closure. After a year-long struggle, the pits closed – but not before the camps united supporters around the country.
The emerging generation is the most left-wing in decades, driven by a desire for fundamental social change – but while they flocked to Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer’s war against the Left has turned them away.
Tory government proposals to legislate against online abuse claim to be tackling hate crime – but they won’t tackle bigotry where it truly originates in British society: with those in power.
While the vaccine is rolled out, continued contact tracing will protect against new and potentially resistant variants – but giving it to Serco and Sitel is a waste of time. We need a public system.
Sarah Everard’s disappearance has prompted new conversations about the prevalence of violence against women – but for many, a meaningful solution to the problem seems further away than ever.
Kara Bryan’s daughter ended up in hospital with Covid-related Multi-system Inflammatory Syndrome. Here, she recounts her story – and explains her fears that schools across England are reopening too early.
The Society of Editors’ claim that the British press isn’t racist was rightly mocked – but it’s only one small indicator of the deep denial that exists about the role our media plays in demonising the oppressed.
One in seven children in the UK are going hungry today. This isn’t an unavoidable side effect of the pandemic – it’s the direct and predictable consequence of Tory austerity.
On the media mogul’s 90th birthday, many will focus on Rupert Murdoch as a nasty individual – but he represents an even nastier system: the billionaire-owned media.
After the 2019 election, Labour was mocked for supporting free, public and high-quality broadband – but as millions struggle without full fibre through lockdown, the idea has never looked better.
Founded in Sweden, Klarna is a bank that has spread like a pink rash over the fashion industry – but its ‘buy now, pay later’ approach is digging a cash-strapped generation deeper into personal debt.