Sadako Yamamura from Ringu (1998) (Credit: Toho) Though increasingly marketable since the turn of the millennium, ‘Asian horror’ is neither a homogeneous category nor a regionally inclusive label. The term ‘Asian horror cinema’ has been largely used to refer to scary...
(A Covid mutual aid group in London. Credit: Youth Deliver.) As Covid-19 hit the UK and we entered the apocalyptic scene- scape of bare supermarket shelves and boarded-up pubs, it was hard not to recognise that our economic system for organising society had failed....
Photo: Liverpool Against the Arms Fair A national protest against an upcoming arms fair took place in Liverpool on 11 September with over 3,000 people in attendance. Jeremy Corbyn and Maxine Peake were among those who showed support. In his speech to the gathered...
Singaporean elections are a curious beast to describe to outsiders. On the surface, everything looks above board. There aren’t any accusations of cheating or corruption, and politicians (especially opposition ones) take care to assure citizens that their votes are...
Image credit: Alexander Constantin Social care is not working. It is a system that is under-funded, difficult to access, and where the only winners are profit-making private care providers. Workers are abandoning the sector in unprecedented numbers while those...
Solidarity mural in Riace, 2018 This week Domenico ‘Mimmo’ Lucano, former mayor of Riace, has been given an extremely harsh 13-year prison sentence, following allegations of aiding illegal immigration. Mr Lucano, who denies the accusation, maintains that everything...
Protests in Mumbai against the National Register of Citizens and Citizenship Amendment Act (credit: Vishal Yashoda) In India, as in other parts of the world, voter suppression has always targeted oppressed communities and minorities. Independent India’s constitution...
A Black Lives Matter march in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2015. Photo: Fibonacci Blue (licensed under Creative Commons by 2.0) ‘People are at their most revealing in liminal spaces,’ Claudia Rankine tells journalist Gary Younge while discussing her new book Just Us: An...
Māori protesters on Waitangi Day, 6th February 2006 (Credit: Charlie Brewer) The ‘doctrine of discovery’, also known as the doctrine of Christian discovery, is an international legal concept and Christian principle borne out of Catholic laws (called papal bulls) that...
Boris Johnson and then Prime Minister David Cameron at the World Economic Forum 2012. Credit: Andrew Dalby In Falling Down, Phil Burton-Cartledge, a Sociology lecturer at the University of Derby, argues that the Tories, although to date one of the most electorally...
Rudolf Rocker, right, with Milly Witkop and their son Fermin Originally from Germany, the anarchist thinker Rudolf Rocker spent much of his life in exile in some of the world’s major cities – Paris, London, New York – where he always gravitated towards immigrants...
Women protest against domestic violence in California. Credit: Thomas Hawk He just snapped. Anyone who pays attention to news reports on men who kill has heard this phrase. It is used as part of a narrative that frames male violence as a ‘loss of control’, the...