Revisiting Laing

Anti-psychiatry drove at the foundations of both institutions – the family and the asylum. But in the process the asylum…
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Laing asylum

Shut it Down #YarlsWood

On a wet windy November day in Bedfordshire, outside the notorious Yarl’s Wood detention centre, Judith an ex-detainee is on…
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Yarls Wood Detention Centre Siraj Izhar

Recovering Community (2)

The erasing of community takes place not only through eviction by the State. It also takes place in political writing…
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Welcome to the Jungle

Free School

.. the putting back into social use of empty property should be rewarded. That is to follow market logic as…
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195 Mare Street

Frontline street

The street of May ’68 seems invitingly open, virginal, feral compared to the complex means of control and policing today…
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The frontline Street from 1968 Siraj Izhar

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Managing the Boomerang of Genocide

If we recall the scramble for territory by European states at the end of the nineteenth century, the scramble now in the twenty-first is for legislation to ban language of…
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11 April 2026 Archive

Rap vs. The State

Through rappers such as Bob Vylan and Kneecap, an insurgent rap tells us why the scale of killing in Gaza is not only bound with our own repression but also…
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Bob Vylan O2. Siraj Izhar

Mandate 2.0

The word Mandate here refers to the arrangement by which the fate of the people in Palestine was handed to European colonial powers a century ago. A rereading of the…
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Gaza Hosny Salah

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