Credit: Calum Ford Since the print publication of this article in June 2022, Palestine Action has successfully shut down Elbit’s headquarters in London. In February 2022, Amnesty International published a seminal report on Israel that should have been a trigger for...
A still from Zvenigora (1928) In 1928, pioneering filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein took a call from a representative of the All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Administration (VUFKU), which controlled the entire film industry of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine, begging him...
CGI rendering of the plans for Etruscan Square in Stoke-on-Trent The holding of the penultimate Tory leadership debate in Stoke-on-Trent, a so-called ‘Red Wall’ constituency in the West Midlands, compelled both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss to at least pay lip service to...
Map of CANZUK countries and dominions, RaviC, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Many of those who argued most fiercely that Britain should leave the European Union think we should have an alternative. One such alternative, entertained – or perhaps humoured – by many...
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...