Asbestos can still be found in tens of thousands of public buildings, including housing, schools and hospitals, across the UK. Tom White explores the nationwide call to 'raise the dust' in the anti-asbestos movement.
What might the trip of Birgitta Dahl to the meet Amílcar Cabral and the PAIGC liberation movement reveal about the motivations of transnational solidarity in the era of decolonisation?
May Ayim was key to the Black German civil rights movement in the 1980s and 1990s. But how did her work across borders exemplify cosmopolitanism from below? Tiffany N. Florvil explores the life and networks of a visionary.
On the 50 year anniversary of the coup in Chile, Maria Vasquez-Aguilar offers a personal testimony of the impact of that day and the continued activism of the Chilean people.
What might the story of a summer camp tell us about the practice and politics of solidarity? Sorcha Thomson on the 'Friends of Palestine' camp of 1969.
The 9th of June 1965 was declared as the first day of the Dhufar Revolution. What role did a small group of British solidarity activists play in the revolution's fate?
As repressive legislation to restrict protest is passed in India and Britain, how can we understand its historical roots and how can this inform activism today?
Sixty years after breaking into a government bunker to expose secret state planning for nuclear conflict, Nic Ralph speaks for the first time about an extraordinary piece of direct action that genuinely worked.
How can we understand the current wave of strikes as part of a longer struggle around the value of care work? Emily Baughan reflects from the picket line.
In 1977, the UN established the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. How was the struggle for national self-determination supported by global solidarity, anticolonial movements, and international institutions?
The term 'racial capitalism' has been widely used by activists and historians. Catherine Hall turns to the 18th century entanglements between Jamaica and England to reflect on the shifting forms of racial capitalism across generations.
On 13th August 1977, a National Front march in Lewisham was halted by activists. Reflecting in 2022, Alfie Hancox considers what does the Battle of Lewisham might reveal about anti-fascist organising.
Why did the British labour movement come to advocate state insurance at the turn of the 20th century? Maya Adereth examines transformations in worker benefit schemes through the lens of Friendly Societies.
Rebecca Turkington explores how the #MeToo movement in China today is made possible through rich histories of Chinese feminists organising inside, alongside and beyond the state.
What does 'history from below' looking like in the Philippines? In this piece Justin Umali reflects on communities finding their "historical place" in a narrative.
In this piece, Iker Itoiz Ciáurriz reflects on the Spanish Indignados movement as a moment of political learning, global solidarity and intellectual discovery.
How can we build a trade union that works for all its members? Mark Pendleton on how it was not only strikes and solidarity in Australia that made him, but also his family's conservatism and lifelong distrust of unions
In 1995, 8000 US feminists went to Beijing for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. Lisa Levenstein finds that this conference had huge impact on grassroots feminism in the US for years to come.
