Image credit: Alexander Constantin Social care is not working. It is a system that is under-funded, difficult to access, and where the only winners are profit-making private care providers. Workers are abandoning the sector in unprecedented numbers while those...
Solidarity mural in Riace, 2018 This week Domenico ‘Mimmo’ Lucano, former mayor of Riace, has been given an extremely harsh 13-year prison sentence, following allegations of aiding illegal immigration. Mr Lucano, who denies the accusation, maintains that everything...
Protests in Mumbai against the National Register of Citizens and Citizenship Amendment Act (credit: Vishal Yashoda) In India, as in other parts of the world, voter suppression has always targeted oppressed communities and minorities. Independent India’s constitution...
A Black Lives Matter march in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2015. Photo: Fibonacci Blue (licensed under Creative Commons by 2.0) ‘People are at their most revealing in liminal spaces,’ Claudia Rankine tells journalist Gary Younge while discussing her new book Just Us: An...
Māori protesters on Waitangi Day, 6th February 2006 (Credit: Charlie Brewer) The ‘doctrine of discovery’, also known as the doctrine of Christian discovery, is an international legal concept and Christian principle borne out of Catholic laws (called papal bulls) that...
Boris Johnson and then Prime Minister David Cameron at the World Economic Forum 2012. Credit: Andrew Dalby In Falling Down, Phil Burton-Cartledge, a Sociology lecturer at the University of Derby, argues that the Tories, although to date one of the most electorally...
Rudolf Rocker, right, with Milly Witkop and their son Fermin Originally from Germany, the anarchist thinker Rudolf Rocker spent much of his life in exile in some of the world’s major cities – Paris, London, New York – where he always gravitated towards immigrants...
Women protest against domestic violence in California. Credit: Thomas Hawk He just snapped. Anyone who pays attention to news reports on men who kill has heard this phrase. It is used as part of a narrative that frames male violence as a ‘loss of control’, the...
Farmers protesting India’s new agricultural laws in 2020. Credit: Randeep Maddoke) It has been nearly a year since India’s BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) government first promulgated a set of farm laws designed to encourage private sector investment in agriculture. In...
The flood of tributes for journalist Dawn Foster following her death at the age of 34 leave no doubt as to how valued she was by the British left. She was a committed socialist and a rare working class voice in the journalistic mainstream. As her friend, it feels...
Pedro Castillo being sworn in at the Peruvian Congress (Credit: Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) At around midday on 28 July, a man dressed in a suit and wide-brimmed white hat, traditional of his Andean region of Cajamarca, entered Peru’s congress to a shower of applause....
Imperial Federation map showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886 by Walter Crane Twenty years ago, when Tony Blair tried to restore something of the old militarism of empire, invading Afghanistan and Iraq with little understanding of what had once happened...