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Sheffield Palestine Campaign Against Israeli Apartheid. In November 2023, Sheffield made national headlines as the first city council in the UK to vote to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Others soon ...
Traditional forms of journalism have let communities across our city down. That's why over the next few years we're looking at ways to use our platform and our skills to help build real community ...
Throughout these processes, the city has been the site of a class struggle in which working people have time and again attempted to improve our pay, reduce our hours of work and establish more control ...
How did a cinema become owned by Sheffield City Council? The now little-known Anvil was a tangible cultural emblem of the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire – and it laid the foundations for ...
The River Don at Lady's Bridge. Paul Gillett on Wikimedia Commons. “Humans have agency and voice, and that voice can be interpreted, that voice can be heard. But when we're talking about non-human ...
Mayor Oliver Coppard is preparing to pump vast amounts of public money into the project – but has refused to say how the supposed benefits were arrived at.
Cloaked in the scent of oil and eclipsed by the shadow of another Trump presidency, negotiations at COP29 in Azerbaijan are in their final week. The global climate talks may seem distant, but might it ...
An all-white panel was initially chosen to decide the future of one of the university’s leading departments, despite 95% of its language staff being of East Asian heritage.
The iconic Sheffield venue is opening up its archives to the public through a free exhibition of rare photos, press cuttings and signed setlists, gathered across its 43-year history.
Clare Moriarty of Citizens Advice even wrote a blog for the NHS about how, even though the quality of the health service is important, “it makes a much smaller difference to people’s overall health ...
Disabled women are twice as likely to be sexually assaulted as non-disabled women, but half as likely to have their perpetrators charged, Now Then has discovered.
Crip is bold, rebellious and unapologetic. Crip has sass and attitude. Crip is a movement that has emerged from the disability community actively rebelling against ableist attitudes, prejudice and ...