Features

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This Better Work

Righting a historic injustice: why special needs teachers at one Bristol school walked out

Engaging children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is a rewarding but challenging job. When teachers at a Bristol school found they had been underpaid for years, slow progress in negotiations led to a strike.

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie

Features

A women sits at a desk. On the wall behind are various art works.

After the crowdfunder: how can cultural spaces not just survive, but thrive?

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

This Better Work

A cardboard placard showing a swastika being thrown in a bin is raised above a city street full of people protesting

‘We need to face them on the streets’: how trade unions are responding to the far-right threat

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie
Olga and Maria at a recent Altered States event

Features

Vladimir, vapes and defending democracy: when the Cable met Pussy Riot in BS3

Celebrating the subversive, we spent an evening with the legendary Russian dissidents to get behind the balaclavas to discuss all things protest.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval
A palestinian teacher in a headscarf standing outside.

Features

Education is the great liberator: the Bristol activists forging links with teachers in Palestine

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie
An Illustration with two sides, one side in the light of various different folks sitting and standing chatting outside the corner premise of BASE social centre, on the right side is a darken red lite van with a police officer wearing headphones arched over a laptop

Features

Under surveillance: how a man was recalled to prison after visiting a Bristol anarchist social centre

Tom Anderson

Features

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Leaseholders are calling for feudal system to be abolished, but what will Labour actually change?

Change is on the horizon for leaseholders in Bristol now that Labour is in power. But it can't come soon enough.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Features

A crowd of counter protesters by Castle Park, with one holding up a placard saying 'Fuck off fascists'

Long Read: Bristol took a stand against the far right, and it’s preparing to do it all over again

As the dust settles on the weekends’ clashes, the Cable reflects on the evening’s events - the racism, the resistance and the tensions that fuelled them.

Priyanka Raval Sean Morrison
Priyanka Raval and Sean Morrison

Features

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Are the Greens going to save Yew Tree Farm?

Yew Tree Farm, one of Bristol’s most important wildlife sites, remains under threat from private and council development. But now the Greens say they don't have the power to deliver on their commitment to protect it.

Nick Scott
Nick Scott

This Better Work

‘Collective power is where it’s at’: City Academy workers celebrate strike action successes

Union members at the east Bristol secondary school have achieved most of a series of asks from the academy trust that manages it, after announcing rolling walkouts. Workers say the action has brought staff together.

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie

General Election 2024

A Labour victory in Bristol East is odds-on, but will a Green surge cut the party’s majority?

Demographic differences in the vast Bristol East constituency, which now includes Easton and Knowle, could mix up the vote.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

General Election 2024

A view onto a cream-painted art-deco building in Filton and Bradley Stoke

In Filton and Bradley Stoke, home to Bristol’s defence industry, it’s the Tories on the back foot

The patchwork of suburbs and outlying villages north and east of Bristol has been held by the Conservatives since 2010. But now, a resurgent Labour and rising Reform mean MP Jack Lopresti looks likely to be toppled.

Alex Turner
Alex Turner
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