Four individuals holding a banner that reads 'Educators for Peace: Solidarity' at an outdoor rally, with union and Palestinian flags visible, and a park setting in the background.

This Better Work

‘Everyone should do something, but it needs to be useful’: unions walk out in support of Palestine

Workplace days of action encourage workers to engage in a lunchtime walkout in solidarity with the Palestinian people. The actions have generated debate within unions, but build on a long history of international solidarity in Bristol.

Listen: People Just Do Something – Meg and Bryony from SLEEC on smashing the patriarchy for good

South Bristol’s new youth centre is technically in Knowle West. Can it deliver for kids from Hartcliffe too?

Reports

Traffic jams around East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood fuel anger, as council calls for patience

A campaign to halt the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood has sprung up before the trial scheme is fully in place. Can the attempt to reduce traffic through St George, Redfield and Barton Hill survive this bump in the road?

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Features

‘Liveable neighbourhoods’ have caused uproar in east Bristol. How will they fare south of the river?

A nightime photo of the houses of parliament with the added text saying 'liar'

People Just Do Something

Listen: People Just Do Something with Led by Donkeys and the guerrilla story wars

One of Bristol’s worst ‘eyesore’ buildings has partially collapsed. What is the council doing about it?

The roof of a building owned by a notorious Bristol landlord has caved in, after years of attempts to force him to clean it up.

Black children and adults strip searched 25 times more often than white peers in Avon and Somerset, leaked report reveals

EXCLUSIVE: The sensitive ‘deep-dive’ review also reveals the police officers who prolifically and disproportionately stop and search Black people in Bristol

They built a huge wind turbine, but can they bring Lawrence Weston’s last pub back from the dead?

The Giant Goram closed five years ago and is a sorry state after being repeatedly broken into. What would it take for a campaigning group of residents to return it to viability?

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.

‘Being a man kills your feelings’: Moses McKenzie on masculinity, liberation and community

From Ends to the Eighties, the Cable catches up with Bristolian author Moses McKenzie to talk about men and masculinity in fiction and the present day.

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

The scale of the recent far-right turnout in Bristol rattled many trade unionists. Now, an anti-racist taskforce is forming to organise opposition in the South West, but activists say unions must show they have migrant workers’ backs.