Are unions failing to support Black NHS workers? As strikes continue nationwide, openDemocracy asks whether Black people are properly represented in the labour movement
A year after Partygate, why is the government still being so secretive? A year after the news broke about Partygate, the Cabinet Office is still refusing openDemocracy’s FOI requests on key evidence
Nobody loved you, 2022 From devastating floods in Pakistan to Italy’s far-right PM to overturning Roe v Wade, this was a year of extremes
‘It left a scar on me’: Locked up in the UK’s women-only immigration centre A year after Derwentside detention centre opened, one woman reveals the impact that being held there had on her
At the UK’s detention centres, border violence and outsourcing collide OPINION: We need unity between the detained, the outsourced and the underpaid – unions must take on the fight
‘What else can we cut out?’ Parents struggle with crippling childcare fees Parents in England tell openDemocracy of remortgaging homes or taking on second jobs to pay for rising childcare fees
Why Africa signed up for eight new fossil fuel projects at COP27 African leaders say oil and gas projects will provide energy security and jobs. Their true effects are more sinister