Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth (HASL) have been organising together for two years on housing, benefits and other issues we face relating to poverty. Over time we have explored ways to make our organising more accessible and better addressed to our diverse needs. There are people in our group for […]
Eighty-five thousand and counting. This is the number of bodies incarcerated at any one time in Britain’s crumbling and overcrowded prisons. It’s a figure that has almost doubled over the past 20 years, a carceral inflation that puts England and Wales at the top of the table for its per […]
Every civilisation must decide what is, and what is not, valuable. Marxists occasionally speak of a “law of value.” It is not a concept easily translated into everyday politics, or into our histories of capitalism. It sounds quaint, curiously out of step with our times. And yet the essential insight […]
I was heartened by the United Families and Friends Campaign against deaths in custody (UFFC) annual march in October 2014, even though it was still small. In 2013, around 100 people marched on Whitehall, whilst one year later there was a much improved number of around 300. The 300 came together […]
Why Every Struggle Is Now a Struggle Against the Police It should have come as no surprise when the grand jury in St. Louis refused to indict Darren Wilson, the police officer who murdered Michael Brown last August in Ferguson, Missouri. Various politicians and media outlets had laboured to prepare […]
A new apparatus of governance is assembling around big data and its algorithmic processing. The data produced through our daily encounters and interactions is becoming the focus for new ways to develop policy and enforce behaviour change. The raw material for these aspirations is the ‘volume, velocity and variety‘ of big data, […]
“This piece is no criticism of anyone involved – rather an attempt to inspire some thought on the challenges that confront us if we are really serious in our intention” – Give Up Activism, Do Or Die #9, 2001 Museums and galleries weren’t always the grand institutions we experience today. […]
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Most of us use maps on a day-to-day basis as practical tools to help us find our way around. Not too long ago we would have used Ordinance Survey maps, or pocket-sized city maps. Increasingly people are drawn to using Google Maps on smartphones. We rarely reflect on the ways in […]
In a 2009 interview with Al Arabiya Television in Dubai, soon after his first inauguration, President Barack Obama affirmed that the US government could be an honest broker in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying: “We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect. But if you look at the track record, as […]