Abolition

Campaigns, groups, media, and further reading on Abolition.

Exploding population; Start 'em young; Health hazard; Covid-19.

Mass imprisonment and merciless policing were the preferred tools of control for European colonizers. Patrick Gathara explores the legacy left in Kenya.

From stopping criminalizing poverty to taking down the prison-industrial-complex.

Writing from a Californian prison, Jessie Milo sets out his vision for a more caring society.

Sarah Lamble explores the opportunities to challenge punitive logic in our day-to-day lives and replace it with social justice.

England’s schools funnel its most marginalized young people towards the criminal justice system, writes Zahra Bei. But abolitionists are reimagining what’s possible.

Community organizations are helping keep people safe where the police fail. Here are some examples from Puerto Rico, Brazil and the US.

In Iraq a growing number of women are now doing the dangerous work of removing landmines – previously a male preserve. Adrian Margaret Brune reports.

Roxana Olivera tells a cautionary tale of her dogged attempts to get an abusive, intrusive photograph – taken without its subject’s consent – removed from the internet.

Taken during a violent British raid, the Benin bronzes have sat in Western museums and private collections for over a century. Kieron Monks reports on Nigeria’s battle to get them back and what it means for the wider push to return works robbed from Africa.

Our deep desire for change is continually thwarted by the limiting political choices on offer. Political theorist and philosopher Neil Vallely digs into the roots of apathy and polarization.

Migration: Europe’s Achilles’ heel. By Nanjala Nyabola.

The gathering storm by Leonardo Sakamoto.

No laughing matter by Nilanjana Bhowmick.

Israel’s largest private arms firm closes its factory in Oldham, England.

The first woman president in Honduras.

Report on Nagaworld Casino in Cambodia by Zoe Holman.

Zimbabwean activists demand the repatriation of human remains, reports Stefan Simanowitz.

Gabriel Boric Font's mandate is to tackle Chile’s social and economic inequality, reports Carole Concha Bell.

Husna Ara reports on ‘vigilante killings’ in Pakistan.

Peter Yeung reports on Black Johnson beach.

Met Sacks Sackler; Solidarity Bites; Case Dismissed.

Praise, blame and all points in between? Give us your feedback.

How do you protest against discrimination? With dancing and song among other things, observes Virginia Tognola.

People, not numbers.

Fast fashion and the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’.

The Covid pandemic vs wealth inequity.

"We are full of rage".

His royal lowness by Anthony Garner.

The photos, facts, and politics of Jamaica.

ILYA sketches the uplifting life-story of an inspirational legal defender of the rights of women and religious minorities in Pakistan.

Khin Ohmar and Toby Lanzer explore the complex trade-offs made by humanitarians working under repressive regimes.

Vote nothing. Illustration by Kate Evans.

The ultimate 2022 climate to-do list by Danny Chivers.

The Bulgarian director of the Balkan Free Media Initiative speaks to Jan Westad.

Hemispheres by Marc Roberts.

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro.

Belief by P J Polyp.

Crossword Puzzle, Association Words and Wordsearch.

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. This month: Is it acceptable for a white child to wear a sari?

We took degrowth seriously? Ditching planet-popping expansion for justice is a vision worth getting behind, says Dinyar Godrej.

Vagabonds!; Chilean Poet; The Trial of Julian Assange; We Slaves of Suriname.

Flee; La Mif.

Bahía by Ana Carla Maza; Ghost Song by Cécile McLorin Salvant.

The author of bestselling novel Mexican Gothic.