The Uyghur tribunal published its findings in December 2021. Photo credit: Lily Vetch In September 2021, I attended a London tribunal that heard evidence from several Uyghurs who had experienced persecution at the hands of China. Despite having given my own evidence...
Protesters wave the Mapuche flag on the streets of Chile. Photo by Pablo Bell (Instagram: @_pablobell) On 21 January, Chile’s new president Gabriel Boric unveiled his much anticipated cabinet of ministers. To the delight of Chile’s strong contingent of feminist...
Stock market trading figures Margaret Thatcher claimed that shareholder democracy would give ordinary people the chance to have a greater stake in the economy and the companies they work for. At the same time, she demolished Britain’s post-war settlement and...
Credit: Montecruz Foto The landmark report released by Amnesty International last week can be condensed into a single, stark sentence: ‘whether they live in Gaza, East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank or Israel itself, Palestinians are treated as an inferior...
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,...