Switzerland narrowly backs Islamophobic veil ban – while facemasks are compulsory
It’s ludicrous. You can – and, in many cases, MUST – wear something covering your face in public unless you are one of the few Muslim women who wears a niqab. Then it is a banned face covering, quite different from those other things that cover your face.
How the Trump years have transformed the US far right
As thousands Donald Trump supporters storm the US Capitol building in Washington DC we look at how Trump’s term has transformed the far right, fascist and white supremacist movements in the US.
ITALY ELECTIONS: fascist Brothers of Italy (FdI) take control of region as far right vote increases
The fascist Brothers of Italy party has taken control of the Marche regional presidency, ousting the centre left, in Italy’s regional elections, partial results show. But the centre left retained two key regions – Tuscany and Puglia – against the far right.
Race, class and coronavirus: lessons from Leicester
Leicester is back in lockdown because of a spike in Covid-19 cases. We look at how issues of race and class are playing out in the city amid the coronavirus outbreak…
India and pandemics: the forgotten and the scorned under colonialism and the far right
Pandemics throw into sharp relief the structural inequalities in our societies. The brutality of the British empire and today’s Hindu-supremacist BJP government in India have exploited the divisions of race and class, exacerbating the effects of deadly disease
Analysis: far right racist DFLA hits disaster in the age of Black Lives Matter
Saturday 13 June was disastrous for the far right. We look at how the racists’ Westminster demo – ostensibly to “defend” war memorials from Black Lives Matter protestors – went wrong, despite its size