During the trans-Atlantic slave trade, approximately 11,000 voyages started from ports in England, stopping along the shores of west Africa to load their human cargoes before landing on the shores of ...

While sanctions imposed by ECOWAS have triggered protests, a deeper rejection of French control is surfacing in Mali, writes Fanny Pigeaud ...

Prince Guma reflects on how new digital technologies for water provision have been adapted – and subverted – in informal settlements in Nairobi ...

In December 1948, a group of prominent US Jews, including Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt, wrote a letter to the New York Times expressing concern over the emergence of ‘The Freedom Party’ (Tnuat ...

The epithet ‘tankie’ began as an insult from one group of communists to another. It was coined by those in the Communist Party of Great Britain who opposed the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw ...

As an autistic person who lives within capitalism, the basic idea that capitalism, not autism itself, is disabling, makes a lot of sense to me. Indeed, my own experiences demonstrate some of Robert ...

The Soviet Union, in the 74 years of its existence in one form or another, was a society that was all about building. The Soviets claimed in the 1970s to have ‘built’ socialism, and while they never ...

The police exist to keep us safe – or so we are told by mainstream media and popular culture. TV shows exaggerate the amount of serious crime and the nature of what most police officers do all day.

The myth is that in the 1970s, the dead lay unburied, unions held the country to ransom, and it was impossible to govern: was it so bad?

Tony O'Sullivan examines Labour's plans for the NHS and how a new government should protect it from privatisation.

For most of us here in England, the news barely registered. A train was hijacked in a far-off province of Pakistan. 400 plus hostages were taken, some of whom were killed, though the number of ...

Five hundred years ago, one of the greatest social movements in European history swept the Holy Roman Empire in what is now Germany. In thousands of villages, people’s private mumblings at heavy ...