The ‘Cursed Objects’ podcast meets journalist Jack Shenker, and his broken revolutionary mug

When staff in Coventry downed tools, they kickstarted a David v Goliath battle against one of the most powerful companies on Earth. This is what happened next

As XR shifts away from radical action and the UK government restricts the right to protest, the climate movement is asking tough questions

Is the internet really to blame for the rise of conspiracy theories, or are they a symptom of a much wider political malaise?

As climate science has gone mainstream, outright denialism has been pushed to the fringes. Now a new tactic of dismissing green policies as elitist is on the rise, and has zoned in on a bitter row over a disused airport in Kent

When the 2011 riots broke out, they were widely dismissed as plain criminality. A new work by artist Baff Akoto tells a different story – and shows how the civil unrest implicates us all

Ten years after the revolution, Tahrir Square is sanitised, the dictatorship in place harsher than the one it replaced. But while the revolutionary generation came from ruins, it is not ruined

From military barracks to private security guards: what kind of country awaits asylum seekers reaching the UK?

A keynote lecture given for the Stuart Hall Foundation's Third Annual Public Conversation at Conway Hall, London

Labour's defeat demands hard thinking about what went wrong and how to fix it. That work is urgent - because our future remains up for grabs

The inside story of the movement behind the man - and why, whoever wins the electoral battle, the Left is winning the war

News coverage of today’s political crisis begins and ends in Westminster. There’s a bigger picture that we’re missing

Liberals are peddling an ahistorical nostalgia. The people aren’t buying it.

Digital technologies are a market product and play politics by different means. It’s up to us to harness them for democracy

A hundred years on from the Russian Revolution, exploring John Reed's 'Ten Days That Shook The World' on the banks of the Nile

Twenty miles east of London, one forgotten port community is on the frontline of a global upheaval. Tilbury's contested history is a window onto our fast-changing political landscape - in Britain, and beyond

Scotland’s independence referendum isn’t about nationalism. It’s about a system that failed, and a new generation looking to take a chance on itself

Mohamed Munadi's Tunisian village was barely affected by the uprising, but when Libya erupted he was one of many who fled to new shores