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...