Thirty years after its heyday, Esther Freeman traces the history of Reclaim the Streets, the movement’s energy – and its ...

The people in Gaza have come to understand political language – not out of education, but because of the immense pain. Each ...

It’s high time for the UK left to support comprehensive drug policy reform, driven by anti-racism and class consciousness, argues Carrie Lou Hamilton ...

Criminalisation, poverty and the hostile environment are roots of violence against sex workers. It’s time to end them all.

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 right's celebration of Margaret Thatcher’s economic record is an attempt to rewrite history. Thatcher wrecked the economy.

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 ...

‘Maximum governance and control with minimum administration’ has become a mantra of how technology is used by state and private actors in a number of Africa’s cities. In Nairobi, Kenya’s capital and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Technology has replaced humans in certain functions (eg manufacturing), enhanced their capabilities in others (eg microsurgery) and enabled them to do things that are entirely new (eg to fly). What ...