Nakba means Catastrophe – the word Palestinians use to describe the events of 1948 when paramilitary Zionist organisations unleashed Plan Dalit (Plan D) – one of a series of operations designed to ...

The left in the UK has a fatal attraction to shortcuts. In 1906 the left-wing Independent Labour Party (ILP) joined the Labour Representation Committee, the trade union dominated committee that ...

Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, I had lived with a contradiction. I opposed the annexation and war in Donbas but like many, I did not think Russia’s course could be changed. Instead, I ...

The first volume of Tariq Ali’s autobiography, Street Fighting Years (1987), focused on his youth. This latest volume follows on from 1979, taking the reader into his eighties, and includes a ...

In 2025 I have resolved to escape the clutches of my smartphone, which has turned out to be no small task – it encroaches on every aspect of my day-to-day life, from communication and banking to two ...

We have a really clear vision for a more democratic and fairer country and we are already a democratic party and we are welcoming lots of people from the left. The old parties are failing to deal with ...

In Carmen Maria Machado’s 2021 prize-winning memoir In The Dream House, the author writes that, ‘What is placed in or left out of the archive is a political act, dictated by the archivist and the ...

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 ...

Rave subculture has attracted considerable infamy over its relatively short lifetime. However, among all the lurid tabloid reporting of hedonistic free-for-alls, rave also developed a reputation for ...

As the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Day 1994, a people’s revolt against free trade began. Poorly armed indigenous peasants, including many women, launched uprisings across Chiapas, Mexico’s ...

At the climate Summit, COP 28, held in Dubai in December 2023, Colombian President Gustavo Petro declared that ‘Genocide and barbaric acts unleashed against the Palestinian people is what await those ...

For a few decades in the late 20th century, squatting was a critical avenue enabling artists, musicians, filmmakers and writers to start out, compromising on secure housing for time, finances, space ...