After years of waiting for change, friends and family of people who 'died in police custody' are demanding justice, writes ...

On 20 April, the verdict that so many had hoped and wished for was delivered: Derek Chauvin was found guilty of killing George Floyd. Some commentators have declared this as a ‘milestone’, a step to ...

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 ...

I was 15 when I attended my first Radiohead concert in Dublin and was thrilled to see a Free Tibet banner hanging on the stage. In 2000, this was a cause celebre and my little activist heart – usually ...

In the wake of the Aberfan disaster, which killed 116 children and 28 adults when a colliery spoil tip collapsed onto the Welsh village in 1966, a group of men got together to sing as a way of ...

Twenty years ago, when Tony Blair tried to restore something of the old militarism of empire, invading Afghanistan and Iraq with little understanding of what had once happened there, he did so with ...

The global financial crisis of 2007/08 exposed the dominant economics of the time that had reigned unchallenged both in university departments and the policies of western governments. The result was a ...

Firstly, the films have been made through a strong partnership between Paul Laverty [screenwriter], Rebecca O’Brien [producer] and myself. It’s very important to say that it’s really not about me as ...

The police exist to keep us safe – or so we are told by mainstream media and popular culture. TV shows exaggerate the amount of serious crime and the nature of what most police officers do all day.

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 ...

There have been a number of works examining the rise, decline and fall of the Soviet system but few from the angle of serious post-Soviet Marxism, at least when it comes to works translated into ...

The epithet ‘tankie’ began as an insult from one group of communists to another. It was coined by those in the Communist Party of Great Britain who opposed the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw ...