Photographic print by Pavel Valenzuela at the Dis/Locating Cultures of Equality exhibition Last October, I curated an art exhibition featuring work from the Global Gender and Cultures of Equality (GlobalGRACE) project, a four-year research project based in Bangladesh,...
Bruce Kent and Kate Hudson outside the Russian Embassy, Spring 2022. Photo by Pádraig McCarrick This is Part Two in a two-part interview between Hilary Wainwright and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) activists Kate Hudson and Bruce Kent, which took place as they...
From left: Bruce Kent and Kate Hudson outside the Russian Embassy, Spring 2022; Bruce Kent at the budget day protest, 2012. Photos by Pádraig McCarrick / CND Bruce Kent led the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in the 1980s, when the peace movement successfully...
Sofia Karim (Photo by Lylah Sanderson) My activism began in August 2018, when my uncle was arrested and disappeared by the Bangladeshi police. We got a phone call saying, ‘Your uncle has been taken. We don’t know where he is.’ From that point, I began campaigning and...
(Credit: Gobierno de la Ciudad de México) In London, cases of femicide in public spaces such as streets, squares and parks, perpetrated by strangers, including in one instance by a serving police officer, have dramatically illustrated that women and girls are not free...
(Credit: Gobierno de la Ciudad de México) In London, cases of femicide in public spaces such as streets, squares and parks, perpetrated by strangers, including in one instance by a serving police officer, have dramatically illustrated that women and girls are not free...
‘Denial’ is not an obviously political song. The reasons it took political dimensions are complex – both socio-political and aesthetic. It brings two worlds together, that of the measured diplomat Seferis, and the fiery, larger-than-life Theodorakis. So why is it that...
Park View School, now Rockwood Academy, was at the heart of the so-called trojan horse affair. The recent, gripping New York Times podcast on the trojan horse affair has re-opened the injustice dealt to a poor, mainly Muslim, community in Birmingham, its schools, and...
Credit: Phil Wrigglesworth Liam Kennedy: Could you tell me a bit about how the UTAW branch came to be? Why the Communications Workers Union (CWU), for instance? John Chadfield: The idea for UTAW, or a tech worker union led by tech workers, started in 2019 and...
Russians demonstrate in 2014 against military intervention in Ukraine. Image: Dhārmikatva / Wikimedia Commons One early initiative in the ‘no war’ movement of Russian citizens, now filling the squares of Moscow, Saint Petersburg and other cities and facing brutal...
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser waiving to a crowd in Mansoura, 1960 In 1919, a peasant-led revolt broke out in Egypt demanding an end to British occupation. In the aftermath of this widespread mobilisation, the country gained a nominal independence from 28...
Qiuyan Chen outside the Intermediate People’s Court in Beijing in 2015. Photo credit: Qiuyan Chen On 16 July 2021, 18 LGBTQ+ public accounts run by the members of ‘underground’ student rainbow societies were shut down by WeChat. These accounts now only appear on the...