Blog Archive for April 2025

In this article, Sharon Hartles marks IWMD25 by exposing how systemic violence—from workplace deaths to Grenfell—is rooted in austerity, deregulation, and profit-driven neglect. She challenges legal definitions of crime, showing how the law protects capital while ignoring preventable harms. Calling this social murder, she urges us to remember the dead and fight for the living.

In this article, David Scott and Kate Hurst name, and highlight the importance of naming, some of those who died in the 1826 ‘Lancashire Rising’.