For the latest post in our Radical Books series, Ole Birk Laursen tracks the influence of Maxim Gorky's anti-Tsarist poem 'Song of the Falcon' on Russian and Indian revolutionaries before the Russian Revolution
Naomi Hossain compares President Trump's handling of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017 to the Pakistani government's response to the 1970 Bhola Cyclone in Bangladesh, to examine the implications of disaster for legitimacy, imperial…
The Wretched of the Earth was the final work of Frantz Fanon, a fearless critic of colonialism and a key figure in Algeria’s struggle for independence. This new history of the 'Third World' depicted the unresolved and open-ended nature of…
As the Catalan question becomes one of the most salient contemporary issues in Europe, Andrew Dowling argues that the call for independence is remarkably new, but can only be understood in the context of centuries of dispute between…
Andrew Whitehead reveals how a women’s militia marked a moment of political empowerment as still unresolved conflict erupted in Kashmir at the end of empire.