Activism
Labour have won by a landslide, now it’s time to abolish the Home Office
This new government needs to set out a radical new agenda, not slot obediently into the existing, failed system argues JCWI’s Ravishaan Rahel Muthiah.
Written by: Ravishaan Rahel Muthiah
How activists have fought back against the escalating housing crisis
The last five years have seen astronomical rises in rents, evictions and spiralling rates of homelessness but communities have been organising, fighting back and, whisper it, winning.
Written by: Micha Frazer-Carroll
Zarah Sultana: “You won’t break my soul”
We caught up with the Labour candidate for Coventry South as she fights for re-election to talk about her first term in Parliament, the future of the country and whether football is coming home.
Written by: Ben Smoke
The activists fighting the mental health crisis
Micha Frazer-Carroll examines the way the mental health crisis has escalated in the last five years and meets those organising to end it.
Written by: Micha Frazer-Carroll
Activists claim victory after major UK festivals drop Barclays as a sponsor
Groups and artists have been campaigning for Live Nation to drop the bank as a sponsor for Download, Latitude and Isle of Wight over alleged ties to the arms trade.
Written by: Ben Smoke
I interrupted Keir Starmer’s manifesto launch – here’s why
One of Starmer’s constituents, Alice tried every way to talk to her then MP about the crisis facing her generation, but he did not listen she writes exclusively for Huck.
Written by: Alice, Green New Deal Rising
How communities of colour fought back
Micha Frazer-Carroll examines the challenges that the UK’s minoritised communities have faced over the last five years, and reports on the ways that they have come together to organise, support and uplift one another.
Written by: Micha Frazer-Carroll
Why have a quarter of The Great Escape’s line up pulled out?
At least 126 acts have withdrawn from the Brighton festival in protest at the inclusion of Barclays as a sponsor because of the bank's alleged links with atrocities in Gaza, Ben Smoke explains.
Written by: Ben Smoke
British Muslims are being demonised for voting
As Muslims exercise their democratic rights alongside millions of other Brits, the rise in Islamophobia has reached an intolerable cacophany writes Dr Shabna Begum.
Written by: Shabna Begum
I’m a torture survivor who was put in detention, this is what happened
After fleeing persecution in central Africa in 2005, Kolbassia Haoussou MBE arrived in the UK and was immediately detained in conditions that terrified him.
Written by: Kolbassia Haoussou