Credit: Rahmat Ali Thirty-three million people have been affected by the floods in Pakistan. The disaster has left more than 1,700 dead, displaced millions and put one-third of the country under water. As we go to press, the water has still not receded in many areas....
The Palácio do Congresso Nacional in Brasilia, which houses the National Congress of Brazil and was one of the three major government buildings stormed by supporters of the former president Jair Bolsonaro on January 8th 2023 (Credit: Donatas Dabravolskas) President...
Credit: Ibrahim Buriro In Pakistan, many mainstream politicians, activists and journalists blame the global north for 2022’s devastating floods. The north contributes 92 per cent of excess global carbon emissions. Yet it is countries like Pakistan, which contributes...
Protest banner in Vienna. Photo: Manfred Werner (cc.by 3.0) Education is a gift and it is a tool. It provides us with the potential to dismantle the world as it is and to see it anew. It is neither a commodity nor a form of debt to be capitalised on by private...
IWW banner at Protest against the Sensenbrenner Bill in Portland, Oregon in 2006. (CC BY 2.0, source) Founded in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, Or ‘Wobblies’) was once considered the protagonist of the American class struggle. The union emerged out of...
Workers demonstrate during Spain’s 2010 general strike. Photo credit: Fabrício de Paula The government’s proposals to compel workers in designated sectors to provide so called ‘minimum service levels’ on strike days is an attempt to make strikes ineffectual. The...
Photo by Helen Murray I became involved in anti-racist campaigns in my teens but it took Blair’s aggressive imperialism to propel me into organising, especially with Stop the War and Palestine Solidarity campaigning at a local level. I was active in my local Momentum...
Bunker B 207 at the X-Point bunker complex in South Dakota is one of 575 bunkers that once protected bombs they now shelter dozens of families bracing for future turmoil (Credit: Bradley Garrett) In February 2009, Australia experienced one of its worst environmental...
Darlington railway station in July 2021 (Credit: Matt Buck) In 2022 Britain’s rail infrastructure owner Network Rail, whose £56.1 billion debt mountain is underwritten by UK taxpayers, spent more on interest on loans than maintaining and improving Britain’s railways....
Peñuelas Lake in Valparaíso, Chile. The lake, which is the main source of water for Valparaíso, was severely affected by the 2022 drought (Credit: Andrea Agostini) A 13-year mega-drought is straining Chile’s freshwater resources to breaking point. 2022 has been the...
Chamber of the House of Commons In recent years, the ecological concept of ‘rewilding’ has blossomed into a key characteristic of contemporary environmentalism. It describes the process of reinstating the complex balance of ecological relationships that together...
Momentum members at the “Rally for Corbyn” demonstration in Canterbury, 16 July 2016 (Credit: Funk Dooby) Michael Chessum’s This is Only the Beginning is the latest to appear in a raft of post-Corbyn retrospectives, drawing on the author’s experience as a student...