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Film of the Week / 12 March 2026
12 March 2026

Five years ago a flash crowd of Glaswegian activists defeated the Home Office and the police; MATT KERR urges you to savour that day in a cinema

People take part in a Stand Up To Racism counter protest during a protest by people attending a Save Our Future & Our Kids Futures protest outside the Cladhan Hotel in Falkirk, which is housing asylum seekers, September 21, 2025
Human Rights / 9 March 2026
9 March 2026
TAINTED PAST REVISITS PRESENT: Postbank in Berlin / Pic: EmptyTerms/CC
Civil Liberties / 9 March 2026
9 March 2026

JOHN GREEN argues that the spreading practice of closing bank account without proof of criminality is an infringement of an elementary human right

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Book Review / 6 March 2026
6 March 2026

MARJ MAYO recommends a lyrical and disturbing account of the tragic suicide in Venice of Pateh Sabally, a refugee from the Gambia

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Scotland / 3 March 2026
3 March 2026
Released prisoners, in a bus, are welcomed by family members and colleagues after they left Insein Prison, in Yangon, Myanmar, March 2, 2026
Southeast Asia / 2 March 2026
2 March 2026
Protesters celebrate outside the High Court, central London, after it rules in favour of Palestine Action's co-founder Huda Ammori's challenge over the ban of the organisation as a terror group, February 13, 2026
Activism / 13 February 2026
13 February 2026

Court strikes down Palestine Action ban as government slammed for its promise to fight the decision in appeals

The great Chartist meeting on Kennington Common on April 10, 1848 / Pic: William Kilburn/CC.
Protest / 14 February 2026
14 February 2026

KEITH FLETT looks at the political impact of protest

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood arrives for a Cabinet meeting in Downing Street, London, February 3, 2026
Home Office / 12 February 2026
12 February 2026

Over 50 MPs, lords and Unison's new general secretary sign letter against changes to settlement scheme

Gus Kenworthy celebrates at the end of his second run in the men's ski slopestyle final at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park at the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, February 13, 2014
Winter Olympics / 9 February 2026
9 February 2026
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Palestine Solidarity / 4 February 2026
4 February 2026

Dockers from Italy, Greece and beyond will stage co-ordinated port blockades on February 6, declaring ‘we don’t work for war’ – in a call in solidarity with Palestine. ALFIO BERNABEI reports

Austerity / 3 February 2026
3 February 2026

The suicide of Tamara Jade Logon after her disability benefits were wrongly withdrawn is the latest in a series of deaths in which coroners have cited DWP failings, exposing a pattern of preventable harm, says DYLAN MURPHY

Students protest US Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside the Pflugerville Justice Centre after walking out of their classes in Pflugerville, Texas, February 2, 2026
US / 3 February 2026
3 February 2026

Schoolchildren who joined a nationwide anti-Trump walkout learned more outside the classroom than in it but could still be penalised, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

People take part in a War on Want, Greenpeace and Oxfam-led protest outside HM Treasury, London, ahead of the Chancellor's spring statement, demanding taxes on the 'super-rich,' March 25, 2025
Campaigning / 2 February 2026
2 February 2026
A camera on top of a Live Facial Recognition (LFR) van deployed on Briggate in Leeds, as West Yorkshire Police use the facial recognition technology for the first time in Yorkshire, November 11, 2025
Policing / 26 January 2026
26 January 2026

Labour announces largest policing overhaul in 200 years, including the creation of a ‘British FBI,’ sparking human rights concerns

Umer Khalid [Pic: Prisoners for Palestine]
Justice System / 25 January 2026
25 January 2026
South Asia / 25 January 2026
25 January 2026
A baby feeding bottle on the beach in Gravelines, France, after being dropped as people thought to be migrants continue to scramble for small boats in a bid to reach Britain, July 3, 2025
Black Activists Against Cuts / 22 January 2026
22 January 2026
A Metropolitan Police officer wearing handcuffs and a Pava spray on a belt during a new spiking crackdown to coincide with freshers week, at New Scotland Yard in central London, September 25, 2025
Penal Reform / 19 January 2026
19 January 2026
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a visit to Ineos FPS headquarters in Grangemouth
Human Rights / 14 January 2026
14 January 2026
26/11/25 of Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood leaving Downing Street, London
Home Office / 11 January 2026
11 January 2026
Children in Glasgow city centre carry pictures of the hunger-strikers, during a Republican rally to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the IRA hunger-strike at the Maze prison in Northern Ireland, May 2001
History / 10 January 2026
10 January 2026

From Chartists and Suffragettes to Irish republicans and today’s Palestine activists, the treatment of hunger strikers exposes a consistent pattern in how the British state represses those it deems political prisoners, says KEITH FLETT

Kamran Ahmed
Human Rights / 7 January 2026
7 January 2026
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Activism / 2 January 2026
2 January 2026

Stop the War warns government to ‘expect a very large riposte’ against its repression of pro-Palestine activism

Alaa Abdel el-Fattah pictured in September 2014
Editorial: / 2 January 2026
2 January 2026