(Credit: Pete Cannel) The 1970s were a decade defined by the power of the working-class movement. We may look back now and say that thetrade unions were radical and strong. However, as Willie Black recounts, that strength came from the rank and file. In reality,...
One of a series of rallies around the UK in response to hate crimes against Muslims, April 2018. Photo by Tim Dennell Tangled in Terror is an unapologetic intervention to the oversimplification of Islamophobia in popular culture, so crucial in a time of hot takes and...
NHS workers protesting in Norwich, 2020 (Credit: Roo Pitt) December saw nurses—overworked and underpaid— launch their biggest strike in British history. Nurses and ambulance workers are already on strike, but junior doctors and midwives are expected to join them this...
A protestor marches with a sign that reads ‘sacrifice our old age, increase their wealth. Photo credit: Phototheque Rouge, Martin Noda, Hans Lucas. On Thursday 19 January, millions of workers marched against French president Emmanuel Macron’s proposed pension reforms....
The figure of the superhero is not typically associated with left politics or protest. As Gil Scott-Heron reminded us, in the context of collective resistance, ‘There ain’t no such thing as superman.’ But the superhero protagonists of this short story anthology are...
Credit: Rahmat Ali Thirty-three million people have been affected by the floods in Pakistan. The disaster has left more than 1,700 dead, displaced millions and put one-third of the country under water. As we go to press, the water has still not receded in many areas....
The Palácio do Congresso Nacional in Brasilia, which houses the National Congress of Brazil and was one of the three major government buildings stormed by supporters of the former president Jair Bolsonaro on January 8th 2023 (Credit: Donatas Dabravolskas) President...
Credit: Ibrahim Buriro In Pakistan, many mainstream politicians, activists and journalists blame the global north for 2022’s devastating floods. The north contributes 92 per cent of excess global carbon emissions. Yet it is countries like Pakistan, which contributes...
Protest banner in Vienna. Photo: Manfred Werner (cc.by 3.0) Education is a gift and it is a tool. It provides us with the potential to dismantle the world as it is and to see it anew. It is neither a commodity nor a form of debt to be capitalised on by private...
IWW banner at Protest against the Sensenbrenner Bill in Portland, Oregon in 2006. (CC BY 2.0, source) Founded in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, Or ‘Wobblies’) was once considered the protagonist of the American class struggle. The union emerged out of...
Workers demonstrate during Spain’s 2010 general strike. Photo credit: Fabrício de Paula The government’s proposals to compel workers in designated sectors to provide so called ‘minimum service levels’ on strike days is an attempt to make strikes ineffectual. The...
Photo by Helen Murray I became involved in anti-racist campaigns in my teens but it took Blair’s aggressive imperialism to propel me into organising, especially with Stop the War and Palestine Solidarity campaigning at a local level. I was active in my local Momentum...