Bunker B 207 at the X-Point bunker complex in South Dakota is one of 575 bunkers that once protected bombs they now shelter dozens of families bracing for future turmoil (Credit: Bradley Garrett) In February 2009, Australia experienced one of its worst environmental...
Darlington railway station in July 2021 (Credit: Matt Buck) In 2022 Britain’s rail infrastructure owner Network Rail, whose £56.1 billion debt mountain is underwritten by UK taxpayers, spent more on interest on loans than maintaining and improving Britain’s railways....
Peñuelas Lake in Valparaíso, Chile. The lake, which is the main source of water for Valparaíso, was severely affected by the 2022 drought (Credit: Andrea Agostini) A 13-year mega-drought is straining Chile’s freshwater resources to breaking point. 2022 has been the...
Chamber of the House of Commons In recent years, the ecological concept of ‘rewilding’ has blossomed into a key characteristic of contemporary environmentalism. It describes the process of reinstating the complex balance of ecological relationships that together...
Momentum members at the “Rally for Corbyn” demonstration in Canterbury, 16 July 2016 (Credit: Funk Dooby) Michael Chessum’s This is Only the Beginning is the latest to appear in a raft of post-Corbyn retrospectives, drawing on the author’s experience as a student...
Protesters gather in solidarity in London, October 2022. Photo credit: Alisdare Hickson On 16 September 2022, 22-year-old Mahsa Jina Amini died as a result of severe head injuries sustained when she was arrested by the so called ‘morality police’, gashte ershad, for...
Politicians at the Lusail stadium, Qatar (CC BY 2.0) The men’s Fifa World Cup finals in Qatar are well underway. This is the first time the biggest stage in world football has played out in the Middle East and it ushers in a new age in the geopolitics of both sport...
A young bell hooks. Photo credit: The Ethics Centre The sudden death of bell hooks on 15 December 2021 created ripples that will be felt for a long time. As a young black working-class woman, bell hooks’s words were initiation into a political trajectory that...
Karachi, Pakistan from above. Credit (CC BY-SA 3.0) In Refugee Cities, Sanaa Alimia reconstructs the microhistories of Afghans in Pakistan with a focus on two cities: Karachi and Peshawar. The book empathetically provides an inside-out understanding of how shifting...
Delegates to the 1886 convention of the Knights of Labor Nativist Moments The year is 1880. The United States is just out of a long slump caused by a financial crisis, the Panic of ’73. Much of the rest of the world is still in it. Unemployment is high. Migration is...
Mount Mikeno & Mount Karisimbi located within Virunga National Park (Credit: Johannes Zielcke) Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya: What are the key dangers currently facing the Virunga National Park and the local communities? Pascal Mirindi: The Democratic Republic of...
Selected Political Writing cover art In 2013, Doreen Massey, Stuart Hall and Michael Rustin published the ‘Kilburn Manifesto’ in their journal, Soundings. It was a rallying call for a socially democratic alternative to neoliberalism. Hall died in the following year;...