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Louise Raw
People take part in a Together Alliance march, through central London, to demonstrate against the far-right, March 28, 2026
Features / 1 April 2026
‘We won’t be used anymore’: survivors confront the far right
1 April 2026

Survivors Against Fascism were ‘on the march’ on Saturday: and on the receiving end of a bizarre fascist confession. LOUISE RAW reports

People take part in the counter-protest, organised by Stand Up to Racism, to the
Anti-Racism / 21 March 2026
Marching Together, we can defeat the far right
21 March 2026

LOUISE RAW talks to Sabby Dhalu, Kevin Courtney and Steve Wright about why we should all join next weekend’s march against the far right in London

Gisele Pelicot presents the German edition of her memoir, 'A Hymn for Life', in Hamburg, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026
International Women’s Day 2026 / 7 March 2026
Against silence and exploitation: a survivor’s call to stand together
7 March 2026

Gisele Pelicot said ‘shame must change sides.’ We may think we agree, but, argues LOUISE RAW, society still has some way to go

Women against the far right
Features / 23 December 2025
Survivors against fascism: the far right do not protect women and girls
23 December 2025

LOUISE RAW on the long history of feminist anti-fascism – and why, as a survivor of child sexual abuse, she has founded Survivors Against Fascism

Matchwomen
Features / 20 June 2025
Matchwomen’s Festival 2025: strike a light in Bow on June 28
20 June 2025

The Morning Star invites readers to join Jeremy Corbyn and others to celebrate a working-class female victory that echoes through the ages

Moronic billionaire Elon Musk is shown during a live video l
Features / 31 January 2025
The Young Americans: Lessons from the US 
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
Features / 11 December 2024
A hidden Long Covid crisis is blighting Britain
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, Au
Features / 9 August 2024
Taking our country back
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
‘Sometimes I wish I’d never spoken out: but I did it for the child in me’
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
When punk took on the prime minister: the story of On Resistance Street 
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
Three of the Birmingham Six, the group wrongly convicted for
Features / 12 June 2023
The unluckiest of six unlucky men: a tribute to Hugh Callaghan  
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
Refugee-hate and rabble-rousing: who are Patriotic Alternative?
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
‘The mood in the country has changed. Something has to give’
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
The May Day event will launch a year of regional anti-fascis
Features / 29 April 2022
This International Workers’ Day Liverpool will be rocking against fascism
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
Features / 1 April 2022
‘Here I am, whether you like it or not!’
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
Features / 18 February 2022
Recognition at last! Matchwomen to be honoured with a blue plaque
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
Louise Raw and Tasnime Akunjee try out the Wing Kingz menu
Features / 16 November 2021
The day the far right had their chips – but no chicken 
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
Starmer drama: This time it’s personal 
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
Features / 2 July 2020
A statue we could be proud of
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
INTERVIEW / 27 January 2020
‘Never again’ is a call to action
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
Stiff Little Fingers on stage in 2013 and (inset) Jake Burns
Features / 20 December 2019
Still rocking against racism
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' amid far-right crowds before his latest spe
Features / 13 September 2019
Rape, lies and videotape?
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
Women taking action against Donald Trump in 2017
Features / 21 June 2019
Women have always been at the heart of the battle against the far right
21 June 2019
Dr LOUISE RAW explains why the seventh annual Matchwomen’s Festival is proudly anti-fascist
Features / 31 May 2019
A suffragette in America: inside the brilliant mind of Sylvia Pankhurst
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