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Moronic billionaire Elon Musk is shown during a live video l
Features / 31 January 2025
31 January 2025
LOUISE RAW reports back from the United States on the dystopian future its ruling tycoons have planned for us – and our need to take a stand against the far right in Britain now
Covid
Features / 11 December 2024
11 December 2024
LOUISE RAW speaks to Long Covid sufferer Sam Williams and others who feel let down by a state that ignores their debilitating illness
Anti -racism protesters demonstrate in Brentford, London. Pi
Features / 9 August 2024
9 August 2024
While Wednesday night’s glorious anti-fascist turnout up and down the country was a heartening sight, the far right will seek revenge for their humiliation – our anti-racism work needs to kick up a gear, argues LOUISE RAW
Mick Finnegan
Features / 16 March 2024
16 March 2024
Louise Raw talks to MICK FINNEGAN, a child abuse whistleblower whose ordeal is still not over, as 12 months on from the expected publication of an official judge’s report into the complaints, he and other survivors are still waiting
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros performing live on stage at
Features / 5 January 2024
5 January 2024
When Boris Johnson claimed The Clash were one of his all-time favourite bands, a group of outraged real punk fans decided it was time to reassert punk’s radical, anti-racist, anti-fascist roots. LOUISE RAW explains
Birmingham Six
Features / 12 June 2023
12 June 2023
One of the Birmingham Six wrongly jailed for IRA pub bombings in 1974, has died aged 93. LOUISE RAW remembers him and his shocking story
Police in riot gear after a demonstration outside the Suites
Features / 24 February 2023
24 February 2023
LOUISE RAW talks with anti-fascists who found themselves having to physically protect from attack a Knowsley hotel where refugees were being housed, and lifts the lid on some of the far-right thugs who have been stirring up trouble around the country
RMT general secretary, Mick Lynch speaks at a rally outside
Features / 26 August 2022
26 August 2022
There’s a new spirit of resistance in the air, with strikes breaking out and new campaign organisations springing up. LOUISE RAW talked with workers on the RMT picket line at Watford Junction
This International Workers’ Day Liverpool will be rocking
Features / 29 April 2022
29 April 2022
LOUISE RAW spoke to Robin Banks and Richard David, founders of the Resistance Street cultural fightback group, about the event and the group’s aims
Lady Shocker
Features / 1 April 2022
1 April 2022
Louise Raw talks to grime legend and ‘mistress of clashing’ LADY SHOCKER about her east London roots, the energy of the youth circuit and the challenges of being a woman in a male-led industry
Matchwomen
Features / 18 February 2022
18 February 2022
Historian LOUISE RAW charts her journey of discovery of how a group of impoverished East End workers became the mothers of the modern trade union movement – and the resonance their story of battling adversity had with her own life
Wing Kings
Features / 16 November 2021
16 November 2021
After no-mark neonazi ‘Tommy Robinson’ attempted to bully a chicken restaurant for refusing him service, DR LOUISE RAW headed up to Wing Kingz in Milton Keynes with an anti-fascist friend for a bite to eat…
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer (left) and (right) the matchw
Features / 28 April 2021
28 April 2021
The Labour leader’s glowing tribute to a management-organised protest by match workers at Bryant & May shows his ignorance of labour movement history, writes historian of the matchwomen LOUISE RAW
Matchwomen
Features / 2 July 2020
2 July 2020
The East End matchwomen were the mothers of the modern trade union movement – so it’s about time they were celebrated with a group statue of them. LOUISE RAW explains how you can have your say in helping to bring this about
Michael Rosen
INTERVIEW / 27 January 2020
27 January 2020
An act of defiance: MICHAEL ROSEN talks to Louise Raw about his new book, The Missing, anti-semitism, and the importance of countering Holocaust denial
Jake Burns
Features / 20 December 2019
20 December 2019
Louise Raw talks to JAKE BURNS of Stiff Little Fingers about anti-fascism, life growing up in Belfast, mental health and the capacity of music to spread a political message
Tommy Robinson
Features / 13 September 2019
13 September 2019
‘Tommy Robinson’s’ former PR guru Caolan Robertson claims to have had a change of heart and rejected the far right. But LOUISE RAW has a few questions about that
Trump protesters
Features / 21 June 2019
21 June 2019
Dr LOUISE RAW explains why the seventh annual Matchwomen’s Festival is proudly anti-fascist
Pankhurst book
Features / 31 May 2019
31 May 2019
Louise Raw talks to historian KATE CONNELLY, whose new book brings to life the famed suffragette’s little-known tours of the United States
Louise Raw at Baitul Futuh Mosque
Features / 14 March 2019
14 March 2019
LOUISE RAW reports on a visit to the Baitul Futuh Mosque, where she was welcomed by members of the Muslim community along with Mike Stuchbery – the journalist harassed at his home by ‘Tommy Robinson’
Beattie
International Women's Day / 8 March 2019
8 March 2019
With women the world over once again facing the beginnings of neonazi persecution, we should be thinking urgently about organised resistance, says LOUISE RAW
Roger Sylvester
Features / 25 January 2019
25 January 2019
LOUISE RAW pays tribute to a ‘caring and thoughtful’ black council worker whose life was tragically cut short after he was restrained face down in the street by police outside his Tottenham home 20 years ago
Rachel Williams, who had her knee shot (top, right) by her a
Features / 15 January 2019
15 January 2019
Sexual abuse is not often thought of as a workplace issue. LOUISE RAW spotlights some of the harrowing ordeals women face – and how the Bakers Union is teaming up with women’s rights activists to raise awareness of the problem
SUTR
Features / 6 December 2018
6 December 2018
As the far right unites, history warns us sectarianism costs lives, says LOUISE RAW