Pyramid Schemes and Revolutions - ‘Cursed Objects’ featuring Jack Shenker
The ‘Cursed Objects’ podcast meets journalist Jack Shenker, and his broken revolutionary mug
‘To them, we are like robots’: the inside story of a strike at Amazon
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
The existential question for climate activists: have disruption tactics stopped working?
As XR shifts away from radical action and the UK government restricts the right to protest, the climate movement is asking tough questions
Inside the campaign at COP27 to free Egypt’s most famous political prisoner
What happened when Sanaa Seif tried to shame the authorities into releasing her brother?
Ten Years On: “Young People Were Watching Their Futures Disappear Before Their Eyes”
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
Egypt’s Dystopia is a Lesson for the World
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
Death at the Ministry
How the coronavirus pandemic struck at the heart of Britain's government - and what it revealed about whose lives matter to those who govern us
Conversations with Stuart Hall: Unravelling and Resistance
A keynote lecture given for the Stuart Hall Foundation's Third Annual Public Conversation at Conway Hall, London
Election 2019: Reflecting on Possibility
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
Why Corbynism Matters
The inside story of the movement behind the man - and why, whoever wins the electoral battle, the Left is winning the war
The drama in parliament is irresistible for the media. But real politics is happening elsewhere
News coverage of today’s political crisis begins and ends in Westminster. There’s a bigger picture that we’re missing
The Bullet Mistakenly Came Out of the Gun
For the London Review of Books - Dystopian realities in Sisi's Egypt
John Reed: The Journalist and the Revolution
A hundred years on from the Russian Revolution, exploring John Reed's 'Ten Days That Shook The World' on the banks of the Nile
Coming Home to the Counter Revolution
For Granta magazine - A weird relationship with a wondrous city gets weirder still
Marikana: After the Massacre
A series of special reports exploring the legacy of the Marikana mineworker massacre, in South Africa and beyond.
The Corridors of Counter-Revolution: Sharm el-Sheikh and the International Elite
As XR shifts away from radical action and the UK government restricts the right to protest, the climate movement is asking tough questions
Privatised London: The Thames Walk That Resembles a Prison Corridor
From the Isle of Dogs to Tower Bridge, just how much of the celebrated Thames riverside is actually open to the general public - and what does it tell us about money, politics and space in contemporary London?
Beyond the Voice of Battle
In an arena of guns and certainties, other fault lines fade to darkness. This latest wave of state violence aims at destroying the very conditions of audibility in which revolutionary voices can be heard