Political Activism

The demise of apartheid was one of the great achievements of postwar history, sought after and celebrated by a progressive global community. Lookin...

When Ohio newspapers published the story of Alice Chenoweths affair with a married man, she changed her name to Helen Hamilton Gardener, moved to N...

From experienced campaigner Vanessa Holburn and with a foreword by award-winning animal welfare campaigner Lorraine Platt, this is the essential gu...

The avant garde is dead, or so the story goes for many leftists and capitalists alike. But in an era of neoliberal austerity, neocolonial militaris...

In recent years leaderless social movements have proliferated around the globe, from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and ...

THIS TRANSLATION IS AN HOMAGE TO A GREAT LITERARY FIGURE AND TO THOSE MOVEMENTS WHICH CARRY ON HER LEGACY IN THEIR WORK Never neutral and deeply en...

The book that most shocked me this year for its literary quality is called Tzompaxtle, although in English it has another title, Torn from the Worl...

According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles b...

This powerful and original book locates the anti-police violence that spread across England in 1980-1 within a longer struggle against racism and d...

Challenging Gender Norms not only renders women visible through the fog of war, it also offers a powerful framework for a fuller understanding of c...

Alice and Staughton Lynd have devoted their lives to the struggle for social justice. Carl Mirra began the history of the Lynds with his biography,...

In 1969, a group of young Puerto Rican activists founded the Young Lords Party in New York, taking inspiration from the Black Panthers. Palante, th...

First published in 1916, Sol Plaatjes Native Life in South Africa was written by one of the South Africas most talented early 20th-century black le...

From Reagans regular invocation of America as a city on a hill to Obamas use of spiritual language in describing social policy, religious rhetoric ...

Despite tremendous sentiment against the American-led occupations, citizens and soldiers continue to die. Award-winning journalist Jamail shows a n...

On the coast of Washington and British Columbia sit the misty forests and towering mountains of Cascadia. With archipelagos surrounding its shores ...

Traveling to Hanoi during the U.S. war in Vietnam was a long and dangerous undertaking. Even though a neutral commission operated the flights, the ...

While people used to conceal the fact that they were gay or lesbian to protect themselves from stigma and discrimination, it is now commonplace for...

Assembles for the first time the many different texts imagining the future after the end of apartheidExplores the history of how the future in Sout...

A great read.Whoopi Goldberg, The ViewHow the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminat...