New report highlights gendered disinformation online and calls for women-centred reform of social media platforms

The government is ‘confident’ in its decision to hand police new powers – despite scathing review of the Met Police

OPINION: You can’t reform a system that’s doing exactly what it’s intended to do

Fifty years after the squatters’ movement in east London, the Bengali community is once again under threat

Ethnic minority hospital cleaners say they were denied NHS contracts and paid less than the majority-white NHS staff

Exclusive: Liberty, Unison and Mermaids among groups sending ‘distress signal’ as UN begins living standards probe

OPINION: Republicans like Ron DeSantis are doing their best to ban any teaching of America’s racist past

Sourour Abouda is the third person of North African descent to die in unexplained circumstances in Rue Royale.

Bolsonaro’s genocidal policies devastated Indigenous communities. After four years of trauma, they can breathe again

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OPINION: The killing of Chris Kaba and the climate crisis are all part of the same imperialist, capitalism system

Cops received only written warnings for sending and posting racist, sexist and offensive messages on social media

As strikes continue nationwide, openDemocracy asks whether Black people are properly represented in the labour movement

‘When local government people visit, they wear masks and gloves, as if they’re afraid of catching something.’

The offence of being ‘rogue and vagabond’ saw people detained for how they looked. Now it’s gone, but there’s more to do

A year after Derwentside detention centre opened, one woman reveals the impact that being held there had on her

Focus on elections, investment and climate change has ignored serious threats to vulnerable Congolese groups

OPINION: Headlines reporting a drop in white Christians in England and Wales aren’t just wrong – they’re dangerous

OPINION: Britain and Australia have legacies of colonial violence. Of course those seeking their asylum are dying

OPINION: Border policies and hellish journeys are meant to control African movement in space and time

OPINION: The platform was already a haven for abuse. What could be taken away is structural privilege, not safety