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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In his 1894 pamphlet The Solidarity of Labour, legendary union leader Eugene V Debs defined his topic as the ‘highest good’ achievable by and for working people. ‘There is such a thing as human ...

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 ...

Despite facing state repression, rave culture continues to be a space for political expression and collective action, writes Alex Carter ...

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 ...

Ubax Abdi and Chief Nyamweya reflect on pan-Africanism past and future while Lena Grace Anyuolo poems express a pan-African socialist woman’s perspective ...