Owen Hatherley remembers Mark Fisher, the radical writer, and friend, who has recently passed away.
Yesterday, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign won a historic court case against the UK Government’s attempts to prevent local councils from taking part in ethical boycotts. This is an immense victory, writes PSC director Ben Jamal, one that shows that BDS is here to stay until we see human rights and justice for the Palestinian people.
Today Grenfell residents staying together in a Kensington hotel were told they were going to be split up and scattered across London at a moment’s notice. This is a disgrace, writes Pilgrim Tucker of the Radical Housing Network.
Following the tragic events at Grenfell Tower, photographer Pierre Papet visited the area to examine the risks affecting similar buildings in the borough. In this photo essay, he argues the tragedy must be viewed within the larger context of a decades-long assault on social housing in the capital.
In his penultimate column on the radical playwright and director Augusto Boal, Andrew Robinson examines Legislative Theatre – a method pioneered during Boal’s tenure as a member of the Rio local parliament. Robinson also examines and critiques the radical democratic perspective underpinning this phase of Boal’s work.
For many of us, the progressive pretensions of the new Wonder Woman, starring Gal Gadot, will strike a bitterly dissonant note in light of Gadot’s own problematic positions on Palestine, writes Ali M Latifi.
