Photo credit: Nchssg’15 Economists, think tanks and journalists have spent billions of words trying to convince everyone that economic growth comes primarily from technological ‘disruption’ and investment by individuals in their own education and training, rather than...
Anti-EDL demonstration in Leicester, UK, 2012. Matt Neale, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Marx wasn’t referring to anti-fascism when he wrote that ‘the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living’, but it neatly summarises...
In 2008, Rizwaan Sabir was arrested at the University of Nottingham for suspected terrorism and, eventually, released without charge. His book The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam, and the Security State, details the traumatising legacy of surveillance, coercion and...
A protest organised by the Save Brick Lane campaign. Photo by Sarah Ainslie Since Lutfur Rahman’s party, Aspire, swept Tower Hamlets (TH) Council in May, TH Labour Party has repeatedly, and quite unimaginatively, accused Aspire of sexism because of the low number of...
Credit: Claire-Emmanuelle Blot Lisez cette histoire en français ici. In the heart of Paris sits La Clef (‘the key’), a cinema screening under-distributed films at accessible prices since the 1970s. When its existence was threatened in 2019, a collective formed to...
1926 General Strike demonstration by workers in North-East England This first volume on the history of Unite opens on the period of ‘new unionism’ in the 1880s, when the rapid growth in workers’ organisation shifted from craft unions to more general unions. A period...
Airey Houses on the estate, now scheduled for demolition Read more about the Dawn Foster Memorial Essay Prize and read the shortlisted entries Back in November 2021, I sat in the audience of a political panel put on during a local book festival. Hosted by David Gauke,...
Cameo brooch of Hadrian and Antinous, Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons The reclamation of badness by and for marginalised people is something of a zeitgeisty topic in pop culture and popular history. From the ongoing popular trope of the messy...
An artist’s impression of the Broad Marsh project by Heatherwick Studio. Image: Heatherwick Studio / SWNS Big changes are afoot – and underfoot – in Nottingham. Or at least they might be, if funds can be found to fulfil ambitious plans to transform an abandoned...
Illustrations by Cressida Knapp. Archive images show Karina Urbina protesting in 1991 (top); Diana Sacayán receiving her DNI from Fernández de Kirchner in 2012 This is the story of #FuriaTravesti: a collective of people who faced persecution and brutality at the hands...
Workers on the picket line, photo from the RMT ‘I’m a working-class bloke leading a trade union dispute’ was just one of Mick Lynch’s memorable quotes in a flurry of television news appearances surrounding the first UK-wide national rail strike action for thirty...
Rally at Sheffield Hallam University in January 2022 in response to the university’s suspension of Shahd. Credit: Robert Carter Shad Abusalama has been made a refugee more than once. Even before she was born, she was made a refugee. ‘The home is amazing, it’s an...