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Vietnamese migrants are set to face cruel deportation flight

Callous system — Campaigners are calling on the government to stop a deportation flight carrying up to 22 migrants and to bring an end to the continued criminalisation of those seeking help and refuge.

  • Activism
  • Ben Smoke

The Borders Bill will replicate callous Australian policy

Broken systems — Senator Nick McKim of the Australian Greens and Benali Hamdache of the UK Green Party explain why Priti Patel’s new Immigration Bill will resemble the worst part’s of Australia policy, inflicting the same suffering, merely under a Union Jack.

  • Activism
  • Nick McKim and Benali Hamdache

Zarah Sultana is fighting for a better, bolder world

The time is now — Elected in 2019 at the age of just 26, the MP for Coventry South has spent her short time in Parliament establishing herself as one of the British Left’s next great hopes, standing tall as a frequent and vocal scourge of the status quo. But how did she arrive here?

  • Activism
  • Ben Smoke

The Borders Bill will endanger those it claims to protect

The fight ahead — While the Tories claim that their authoritarian Bill will create a fairer system, in reality, it’ll only serve to harm the most marginalised and vulnerable, writes Leah Cowan.

  • Opinion
  • Leah Cowan

Is it too late to ‘Kill the Bill’?

Time to act — While the authoritarian policing bill is almost certainly going to be passed, now isn’t the time to give up the fight, writes Politics Editor, Ben Smoke.

  • Activism
  • Ben Smoke

Inside the anti-vax campaign targeting schools

Classroom battle — New research from Logically shedding light on efforts to promote vaccine hesitancy among schoolchildren and parents has exposed the disturbing lengths certain groups are willing to go to.

  • Culture
  • Ben Smoke

Londoners unite to declare the Tories not fit to govern

People’s Assembly — Over the weekend, thousands of protestors came together to condemn the Government for its countless failures and continued corruption. Huck photographer Theo McInnes was on hand to capture the action.

  • Activism
  • Huck

The fight to ‘Kill The Bill’ has only just begun

Time to act — With the Bill returning to Parliament in early July, heavy-handed policing at nationwide protests and the G7 should fuel our fight against this authoritarian legislation.

  • Activism
  • Ben Smoke

Liverpool is taking a stand against anti-LGBTQ+ attacks

Enough is enough — Earlier this week, following a series of violent attacks on queer people in the city centre, demonstrators came together in a moving show of solidarity.

  • Activism
  • Vuyokazi Mtukela

Why left-wing groups aren’t exempt from sexual assault

Hidden abuse — Isolated incidences of rape culture threaten the very ideology that unites activists and the building of a better society. Why then has there been a failure among some leftist groups to look inwards at the cultures they may be perpetrating?

  • Activism
  • Katie Tobin

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