Discussions between Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron. Credit: UK Prime Minister The country seemed to breathe a collective sigh of relief when Boris Johnson finally struck his trade deal with the European Union (EU). According to conventional wisdom the signing of...
Donald Trump at Basel Fasnacht Carnival (Carnaval.com. CC2.0) Here in the United States, we have been awash in conspiracy theories for quite some time. Even before the rise of Donald Trump, conspiratorial ideation (as the psychologists call it) was the worldview of a...
Credit: Robert Firth and Block the Block On Manchester’s Oxford Road, in the city’s university district, there is a building that represents the council’s vision of the student housing of tomorrow. From the outside it is tall, grey and rectangular. But inside it has...
EndSARS protestors. Credit: TobiJamesCandids ‘Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it,’ wrote Frantz Fanon. It has been 60 years since Nigeria achieved its independence from Britain, yet these words reverberate...
At the end of 2019, nearly 80 million people worldwide were forcefully displaced because of war, occupation, extreme poverty and/or the climate crisis. It is hard to comprehend the scale of such displacement. A number equivalent to the combined populations of the UK...
Tahrir Square, July 2011. Credit: Ahmed Abd El-Fatah The ‘coldness’ of what some commentators now dub the ‘Arab Winter’ is felt most chillingly in Egypt, arguably the largest and most globally significant of the revolutionary theatres of a decade ago. No fewer than...
Illustration by Intifada Street On 16 February 2019, in Kherrata, Algeria, the city where French colonial troops carried out an infamous massacre of pro-liberation protesters in 1945, hundreds of people took to the streets once again to express their anger. The...
Graffiti supporting MAS (Francoise Gaujour/ CC2.0) On 18 October 2020, the left returned to power in Bolivia in an election won overwhelmingly by Luis Arce, the candidate of Evo Morales’ party, MAS (Movement for Socialism). The victory put an end to the right-wing de...
The Cofiwch Dryweryn wall, a prominent symbol of Welsh nationalism (CC BY-SA 4.0) As we ponder the territorial scenarios facing the UK, I’m reminded of an old joke: Two French political philosophers are discussing the nature of the UK’s multinational state system....
‘This country is about to explode’, an environmental campaigner in Chile told me in June 2019. ‘Hmm,’ I thought, ‘Is that wishful thinking?’ Sure, I’d spoken to a lot of exhausted and angry people here, but people on the Left often see revolution just around the...
Image: Repeater Books The work of cultural theorist, blogger and academic Mark Fisher has been all but canonised of late, and its growing influence shows no sign of abating. Much of the work of maintaining proceedings in his wake has been taken on by his friends and...