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...
Farmers protesting India’s new agricultural laws in 2020. Credit: Randeep Maddoke) It has been nearly a year since India’s BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) government first promulgated a set of farm laws designed to encourage private sector investment in agriculture. In...
The flood of tributes for journalist Dawn Foster following her death at the age of 34 leave no doubt as to how valued she was by the British left. She was a committed socialist and a rare working class voice in the journalistic mainstream. As her friend, it feels...
Pedro Castillo being sworn in at the Peruvian Congress (Credit: Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) At around midday on 28 July, a man dressed in a suit and wide-brimmed white hat, traditional of his Andean region of Cajamarca, entered Peru’s congress to a shower of applause....
Imperial Federation map showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886 by Walter Crane Twenty years ago, when Tony Blair tried to restore something of the old militarism of empire, invading Afghanistan and Iraq with little understanding of what had once happened...
Image: Ben Kucinski, Flickr After the largest protests on the island since 1959, the Cuban government took what, for some, has been long-awaited steps to further liberalise the economy. The Cuban Communist Party has now announced that private enterprises with up to...
The author climbing outdoors, credit: Hannah Zia Just over ten years ago, my mother stepped foot in a climbing centre for the first time. The overwhelming friendliness of the counter staff towards my mother, dressed in her head to toe hijab with her two kids, hooked...
Photo credit: Peter Burka Understanding the cycles of social movements helps us to contextualise what has happened since the wave of protests in response to the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis last summer. Social movements ebb and flow like tides:...
Members of the Afghan National Police being trained by the US army in Ghazni province, May 2007 (Credit: Justin Holley) Located in Afghanistan’s remote south-eastern Paktika province along the border with Pakistan and the western edge of the Sulaiman mountains, the...
Promotional image for the 1936 People’s Olympiad Hitler’s 1936 Olympics were, in many ways, the first truly modern Games and set the tone for subsequent iterations: infrastructure as national pride, the inception of the torch relay and the first to be televised (by...