- I'm my personal revolution: the Purple Movement in Italy, Emanuele Toscano
- The war for American minds, Godfrey Hodgson
- Fighting for Magnitsky (part 2), Oliver Carroll
- Essential Reading on the US Prison-Industrial Complex, Charles Shaw
- Egypt and Sudan tussle with Nile basin countries over water rights, Andrea Glioti
- Amnesty: working against oblivion?, Gita Sahgal
- The Next Scottish Constitutional Revolution: Why Calman Isn’t the Answer, Gerry Hassan
After December 5th – the date that will be remembered in Italy’s history as ‘No Berlusconi Day’ - the colour purple gained sufficient media attention to guarantee it significance beyond any momentary trend. It’s the symbolic colour of a...
The United States witnessed another “super Tuesday” on 18 May 2010, in which four states - Arkansas, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Oregon - held primary elections to select the lead candidates for the mid-term elections on 2 November. The results...
On November 16, 2009, lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died while awaiting trial in a Moscow prison. Exactly how he died is unclear, but it seems that he suffered a toxic shock reaction following internal organ rupture. On the day he was to die, Magnitsky...
Ten years ago Christian Parenti published Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (1999, Verso). It remains the definitive text connecting social and political control policies to the American incarceration experiment. Beginning...
During a meeting held in Cairo with Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, the Egyptian prime minister, Ahmed Nazif, stated that his country’s annual share over the Nile basin will not be affected by the agreement signed on 14 May by Uganda, Rwanda,...
Salman Rushdie has said, ‘When people are told that they cannot freely re-examine the stories of themselves, and the stories within which they live, then tyranny is not very far away’. Forty nine years ago, this week, Peter Benenson struck a...
The Queen’s Speech today is a remarkable moment in British politics: the first British coalition government in 65 years, the spectacle of the Cameron-Clegg double act, and the possible emergence of new political force, ‘liberal...
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