Activism
Why young people are giving up on saving for the future
‘Life’s too short‘ — Amid a cost of living crisis and accelerating climate breakdown, many young adults are now wondering: is there any point in saving for the future?
Written by: Eve Upton-Clark
On TikTok, people are fuelling surveillance culture
Big brother — Videos of people who’ve been filmed without their knowledge or consent are racking up millions of views on the app – but are these clips ever ethically justifiable?
Written by: Lucy Harbron
Israeli violence is central to Palestine’s mental health crisis
End apartheid — The answer to improving the well-being of Palestinians rests not with individualised solutions from the Global North, but with ending settler colonialism, writes Layth Hanbali.
Written by: Layth Hanbali
Junk food is not the problem
Eton mess — Shifting the focus from the cost of living crisis to tackling obesity while many starve or freeze is farcical and pointless, writes Fatzine founder Gina Tonic.
Written by: Gina Tonic
‘Charged’: How the police try to suppress protest
Writers Matt Foot and Morag Livingstone explore how four decades of collusion between the government and the police have slowly eroded our right to protest.
Written by: Matt Foot and Morag Livingstone
The young activists smuggling military equipment into Ukraine
Secret weapon — A group of Ukrainians living in Poland are helping Ukraine withstand Russia’s brutal invasion by buying supplies and shipping them directly to the war’s frontlines.
Written by: Peter Liakhov
The fight for long Covid to be recognised as a disability
Through the fog — The government’s failure to take long Covid seriously has led to the formation of a group of ‘long-haulers’ campaigning for the thousands of forgotten victims of the illness.
Written by: Samantha HuiQi Yow
Protestors resist police brutality in Dalston
Cops out — Over the weekend, London locals came together to resist a pre-planned police raid targeting delivery drivers.
Written by: Ben Smoke
Londoners gather to defend abortion rights
‘My body, my choice‘ — After news broke last week around an expected reversal of the 1973 landmark law that made abortion legal in the US, protestors gathered in the UK in support of American women.
Written by: Huck
Kinder in colour: the hikers reclaiming the countryside
Right to roam — To mark the anniversary of the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, a group of hikers came together with the intent of creating a new, fully inclusive culture for rural spaces.
Written by: Adam Quarshie
