Tales from black revolutionaries are vital in contextualising what has come before, and how it informs the present. Reni Eddo-Lodge reviews Assata Sahkur's autobiography and argues that her hindsight and observations are vital in a society that’s still stuck on how to live together.
Is repeated failure actually the key to the success and endless expansion of the US intelligence community?
Europeans are in uproar at chaotic attempts by the EU presidency to rush through 'secret courts' for investors to sue governments who try to protect their citizens and public services.
The unravelling of Iraqi society set the context for the emergence of the Islamic State-led insurgency in Iraq. But the role played by IS is a byproduct of the flows of capital and ideology in a much wider theatre of power.
If global corporations gain rights, do citizens also? We now know the answer: No.
People around the world are putting increasing pressure on world leaders to take action on climate change, as demonstrated by this week's climate march in New York.
After all, why should "they" act in our best interests if we ourselves do not? This is a deeply ethical issue. We can choose to be autonomous, efficacious beings, or to be automatons oblivious to our own destinies.
The US call for "the broadest coalition of nations" to fight ISIS is simply an invocation of past moral crusades. But other states' willingness to commit to war is much changed from 2003.
The butcher of Foley has in a sense defied the genealogies of empire and the 'be with us or against us' mentality now once again at the forefront of politics.
When we come together as civil society, we have the capacity to transform policies, change old ways of doing things, and sometimes even topple regimes. That’s why I’m marching this Sunday in New York City.
The NHS has become the burning issue of the Scottish Independence Referendum. OurNHS takes a close look, and finds in favour of the Yes campaign.
