A cartoon from the February 1927 issue of US magazine Labor Age, depicting how systems of surveillance like Taylorism were intended to shape workers’ behaviour. The Covid-19 pandemic has turned the world upside down, forcing many changes at work. One of the most...
Photo credit: Staff Sgt. D. Myles Cullen (USAF) At a time of heightened US-China geopolitical tensions, it is right to be wary. Concerns are valid that we are hurtling toward conflict between the two superpowers, articulated on the left as a ‘new cold war’ in some...
Nanshan District in Shenzhen, China. Many of China’s largest tech companies are located in Shenzhen, including Huawei and the world’s largest video game vendor Tencent. Over just a few months, a dizzying array of actions and rhetoric by the Chinese state to prioritise...
Credit: manhhai On January 14, tens of thousands of people gathered in Bamako and other cities around Mali to protest against severe sanctions imposed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Waving Malian flags, the demonstrators were responding to...
A moral (right) depicts Jackie Duddy, shot dead on Bloody Sunday, carried away by a local priest. Credit: Will Bakker ‘I forced myself to look back inside again. In a surprisingly short time I found that I was no longer bothered by the sight. But for the smell, I...
‘Don’t tell women what to wear, tell men not to rape’: an anti-rape protest in Delhi. Painting by Sarbjit Johal During an art workshop I ran for women at the Tamil Community Centre, Hounslow, in 2015, I asked participants what they wanted from the political parties...
Graffiti depicting martyrs of the popular uprising in Tahrir Square, Cairo. Image: Tungsten, via Wikimedia Commons Alaa Abd el-Fattah has spent most of the past eight years in detention in Egypt – most recently as a ‘captive’ rather than a prisoner, since prisoners...
The author with a drumming band at a protest in London, August 2021. Photo by Jonathon Vines In my activism and doctoral research in the London samba-fusion community, my goal is to learn how to use culture as resistance. Samba, as a Brazilian music genre and culture,...
Algeria’s Islam Slimani challenges for the ball at AFCON 2013. Credit: Magharebia Algeria’s performance during the 2021 FIFA Arab Cup offers a number of interesting insights into the social and political context of the country itself. The tournament was won by a...
Image via unitelive.org As a teenager, incensed by the half-wages paid to young workers on the Liverpool docks, Len McCluskey organised a successful strike among his fellow clerical workers to remedy the inequity. He was soon elected as shop steward, cancelling his...
Placard at Global Climate Strike in Germany, 2019. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash The final weekend of September 2021 saw the return of the long awaited left-wing political festival, The World Transformed (TWT). Labour’s left turned up in force, including MPs,...
A watchtower overlooking the Guantanamo Bay Detention Centre (Credit: Gino Reyes) Ashish Ghadiali: You’ve said you don’t want to just go back to ‘normal’ after the pandemic. What has got to change? Sohail Daulatzai: Well, first off, you and I both know that ‘normal’ –...