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...
Socialist presidential candidate Leody de Guzman at a rally (credit: Leody de Guzman) (The views expressed in this piece are strictly the author’s and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of other individuals and organizations involved in the Leody de Guzman for...
A UCU picket in Edinburgh, November 2019. Photo by Magnus Hagdorn The decade since the abolition of the university fee cap in 2012 has felt painfully long for staff and students. Universities are no longer fertile ground for public knowledge but an exercise in...
For the Solidarity Knows No Borders Week of Action in June 2020, Hastings Refugee Buddy Project organised banner drops along the beaches with 22 other organisations and groups to welcome refugees This year marks five years since we set up The Refugee Buddy Project...