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In the post-war era, Caribbean independence coincided with the rise of the West Indies cricket team – making matches against England political affairs which pitted former coloniser against the colonised.
Today's right-wingers cast free speech as a distinctly British value, but they have precious little to say about the history of the Empire – which mounted a brutal campaign to deny these rights to colonised peoples.
A new study shows that 17 billion life years could be saved if air pollution was reduced to WHO standards, but there's only one way to do it – ending the system that pollutes the world in the name of profit.
The Global North’s stockpile of Covid-19 vaccines won’t eradicate the virus – but it does expose the reality of capitalism’s deep international inequalities.
Karl Marx's friendship with Chartist radical and labour poet Ernest Jones set him on a path to embracing anti-colonialism as a necessary step to overcoming capitalism.
In 1922, Shapurji Saklatvala was elected as Labour's first MP of colour. He was a fighter against colonialism and war – and for an international socialism that could unite the world's working-class.
In 1922, Shapurji Saklatvala was elected as Labour's first MP of colour. He was a fighter against colonialism and war – and for an international socialism that could unite the world's working-class.
In 1922, Shapurji Saklatvala was elected as Labour's first MP of colour. He was a fighter against colonialism and war — and for an international socialism that could unite the world's working-class.
In an open letter to Tribune over 500 writers, artists and musicians endorse Labour's vision of the arts, and its conception of politics as "something inherently collective, creative and transformative.”
Under capitalism, democracy is permitted as long as it doesn't fundamentally threaten the ruling class and their power – once that line is crossed, the democratic facade crumbles rapidly.
On the 80th anniversary of the evacuation from Dunkirk, Ghee Bowman's history of the Muslim soldiers who took part in the operation challenges the parochial memories of Britain in the Second World War.
There have been many attempts to put a 'humane' face on capitalism, but it is a system built on oppression. Racism isn’t a glitch, it’s a feature – both of capitalism's history and its present.
The renewed crises caused by mutating strains of Covid-19 are teaching the West an important lesson – the virus won't stop at the shores of wealthy countries, and our response can't either.
For LGBT History Month, historian Sheila Rowbotham remembers Edward Carpenter – poet, philosopher, utopian socialist, and a pioneer of gay rights amid the repression of Victorian England.
Lula da Silva used his state visit to Britain to champion the interests of the Global South, urge diplomacy over militarism and condemn the persecution of Julian Assange – a sign of Brazil's new role on the world stage.
The Civilization: The Way We Live Now photography exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery is undermined by a narrow perspective of humanity that erases the achievements of the Global South.