Ideas and Action

Antifascist protesters dressed in black try to de-arrest one of their activists from a line of police.

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Bristol Antifascists - Interview

Bristol Antifascists is a non-hierarchical group opposing far-right activity at the street level. We sit down with one of them to learn about the discipline, solidarity and compassion needed for this work.

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie

Features

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

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

Tom Anderson
Tom Anderson

This Better Work

‘Precarity is the thing that joins all this work together’: Bristol’s sex workers demand labour rights

Natalie Sherriff
Natalie Sherriff

Area in Focus

Meet the estate residents picking up trowels and spades to fight harmful social housing stereotypes

A gardening group at Dove Street, one of Bristol’s landmark high-rise estates, has battled negative representation in the media, fire safety issues and the threat of demolition – and in the process forged a new sense of community.

Billy Stockwell
Billy Stockwell

Ideas and Action

How helping people take drugs safely will save lives

Martin Powell
Martin Powell

Coronavirus in Bristol

These furloughed pub staff are providing fresh food and hope to families in need

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Black History Month

‘You need to see yourself’: tackling the national curriculum’s overwhelming whiteness

“Put yourself into their shoes for a moment.” Aisha Thomas, the assistant principal at City Academy in Easton, is explaining how the national curriculum is...

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Ideas and Action

Not all heroes wear capes. Many wear PPE. NHS staff protest for fair pay

Nurses and junior doctors say they have been left out of public sector pay rises for too long.

Priyanka Raval
Olumide Osinoiki and Priyanka Raval

Ideas and Action

Why women in Bristol are going on ‘strike’

For International Women’s Day this Sunday 8 March, feminist collectives in Bristol are putting on a “Women’s Strike”. The Cable has been following the event's organisers to learn about the personal stories and politics behind the action.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Interviews

The Bristolian 17-year-old campaigning for racial justice in climate change movement

The Cable catches up with Mya-Rose Craig, the 17-year-old Bristolian activist, about sharing a stage with Greta and race equality in the environmental movement.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval

Solutions in Bristol

The routes out of Bristol’s bus nightmare

Bristol’s buses are gridlocked and there's growing clamour for change. But where to next? We break down the options.

Adam Cantwell-Corn Hannah Vickers
Adam Cantwell-Corn and Hannah Vickers

Reports

Councillors throw out airport expansion plans, but is this the end of the road?

North Somerset joins the ranks of Southampton and Stansted, whose local councillors also voted to reject airport expansion plans.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval
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