In a predominantly Hindu and Christian city in the south of India, a Muslim family meets every Friday evening to light a lamp ...

An ideology which promised to liberate us from state socialist bureaucracy has instead imposed a bureaucracy all of its own. This only looks like a paradox if we take neoliberalism at its word. Why ...

At 9am on 24 February, Vyacheslav Yakushev and 89 of his colleagues were supposed to end their shifts at the Chernobyl power plant and go home. Most employees live in the nearby purpose-built town of ...

50.50 spent a (fairly) fact-free weekend among anti-feminists at London’s International Conference on Men’s Issues Men’s rights activists (MRAs) from Europe, North America, Australia and Asia gathered ...

It’s 2014 and I’m in a quiet bar with my then-girlfriend. We’re enjoying our evening, being affectionate towards each other, and playing pool. I’m pretty terrible at it (having virtually no hand-eye ...

This article is part of ourEconomy's 'Decolonising the economy' series. "They talk to me about progress, about 'achievements,' diseases cured, improved standards of living. I am talking about ...

Aimé Césaire died on 17 April 2008 in Fort-de-France on the French Caribbean island of Martinique at the ripe age of 94. His life and political choices are truly captured in his friend and surrealist ...

Britain suffered a bleak economic landscape in 2023, with wages stagnant and costs rising across the board, but political donors and the parties they give to seem to have been unimpacted. All parties ...

This is an edited excerpt from The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity, published by Zed Books June 2014. In this book, we try to better understand the way that the ...

When BBC Stories aired in January 2020 the short documentary “‘Submitting to my husband like it’s 1959’: Why I became a TradWife” reactions were passionate. On the one hand, those who focused on the ...

Two Israeli dissidents have claimed they damaged the British headquarters of an Israeli-owned drone manufacturer to save Palestinian lives in the first court case of its kind in the UK. Stavit Sinai ...

The UK government has spent at least half a million pounds on legal fees trying to prevent the release of information under Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation over the last five years, ...