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A compact, printable summary of McCarthyism in America by historian Ellen Schrecker. 

Marcus Rediker on the life of Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lay and the methods of "history from below." 

Will we see the end of cheap, commodified nature, or will capitalism be able to exploit ongoing crises to generate a fresh round of accumulation?

Europe's plunder of the Niger Delta dates back to 1444.

After the 2016 Brexit vote, the Guardian published a slew of articles about hard-working, white, tax-paying EU citizens threatened with deportation–yet nowhere mentioned Britain's existing deportation regime. Luke de Noronha asks what this says about race and class in Britain.

Radical Broadcasts is an archive television season which will screen across London throughout April and May 2018. An exciting and provocative combination of documentary archive footage, and drama drawing attention to an era of British television where public intellectuals and theory were never far from our screens. The screenings will take place at Whitechapel Gallery, Institut-Francais, Horse Hospital and BIMI – further information on each event below.

Three recent moments of the revitalized women's movement can be understood as windows into three levels of analysis and action: individual, social, and political. 

Linda Gordon's new introduction to her classic 1981 text "The Politics of Sexual Harassment."

David Broder offers background on Italy's populist Five Star Movement. 

Cecilia Palmeiro on the Ni Una Menos Campaign in Argentina and how the idea of a women's strike spread into an international phenomena.

Nisha Kapoor considers the significance of the womens strike in the context of rising Islamophobia and the increased securitisation of muslim women lives, calling for an end to Prevent and the criminalisation of Muslim, refugee, migrant and black women.

To commemorate International Women's Day and the second International Women's Strike, we present a reading list of our favorite books of feminist theory and activism to inspire our ongoing fight for collective liberation.