Political Activism

The recent activism film Just Do It (2011) had a message: 'Get off your arse and change the world'. But, as Michael Norton here implores, no-one ha...

This essential book explores the early years of military rule following the Free Officers' coup of 1952. Enriched by interviews with actors in and ...

The life of the great Guyanese scholar and revolutionary Walter Rodney burned with a rare intensity. The son of working class parents, Rodney showe...

Revolutionary, unionist and socialist James Connolly is best known for his part in organizing the bloody Easter Rising of 1916, a flash point in Ir...

The failure of political institutions, including national governments and the United Nations, to mitigate climate change reflects the modern consti...

To be gay in Iran means to live in the shadow of death. The country s harsh Islamic code of Lavat is used to execute gay men, and LGBT individuals ...

Charged is an essential investigation into the role of policing protest in Britain today. As the UK government tries to suppress all forms of disse...

In July 2004, federal agents raided the homes of five Palestinian-American families, arresting the five dads. The first trial of the Holy Land Foun...