Activism
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Rewilding our dysfunctional democracy
Just as capitalism destroys ecosystems, it also maintains power imbalances in our democracies. Borrowing ecological principles could yield radical politcal changes, writes Calum McGeown
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Mourning radicalism: a tribute to bell hooks
Khadijah Diskin explores how can we avoid the cynical commodification of bell hooks’ legacy and build upon her scholarship
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#EndSARS: Two years since the Nigerian police murder which sparked a youth movement
Two years since protests successfully demanded to end SARS, police brutality continues to be a problem in Nigeria. Obiora Ikoku reports
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How Elbit was shut down
Blyth Brentnall describes how a group of activists in the UK has managed to disrupt the activities of one of Israel’s biggest arms suppliers
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How the first Gulf War shaped the British left
Thirty years on from the first Gulf War, Evan Smith considers how it exposed the limitations in the British left’s ability to build a mass movement
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‘Faster, faster, faster’: The diary of a hotel cleaner
In the opening post of a new blog project, the anonymous ‘Maid in London’ describes her first day cleaning a luxury London hotel
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Birth of a new movement: Occupy goes global
Today there was hardly a city in the world not touched by the occupations, writes Niamh Flynn