Recent council elections in Britain confirmed not just the national swing against the Conservatives, but also the power of protest, says Tim Gee.
Recent council elections in Britain confirmed not just the national swing against the Conservatives, but also the power of protest, says Tim Gee.
As the St Paul’s camp is dismantled by the bailiffs, Tim Gee is upbeat about the movement’s future.
The shock of budget cuts has inspired folk across Britain to take to the streets. Tim Gee meets some of them.
From the frontline of the struggle for social justice come some riveting reads, as Tim Gee discovers.
The climate justice movement, like the current #Occupy protests, placed the need for real democracy at its heart, says Tim Gee.
Tim Gee witnesses consensus in action as protesters draw up the Occupy London Statement.
‘Writing a book is a lonely experience… Speaking about a book is much more enjoyable’
Radical newspapers and magazines have long offered resistance and resilience, despite the establishment’s attempts to stifle their voices. Tim Gee looks back at one paper that sought to bring about social change nearly 200 years ago.
On the day courts are due to decide whether residents can be evicted from the UK’s largest unauthorized travellers’ site, Tim Gee describes the mood in the camp.
Media coverage of ‘anarchist thugs’ and ‘squatters’ is wide of the mark. Tim Gee visits the traveller site in Essex, England, as Basildon Council prepares to send the bailiffs in.
Mari Marcel Thekaekara is appalled by the tactics used by a website to raise money for poor Indian children. But do the ends justify the means?
‘I was the fall guy’: Julian Assange in his own words
With capital punishment debates resurfacing since the Breivik trial, Tony Mckenna argues the death penalty brutalizes not just the individual but the whole society.
In some Indian communities a girl's first period is treated with great fanfare, in others it is a carefully kept secret, says Mari Marcel Thekaekara.
Alan Hughes can’t believe the nerve of the London Mayor, who’s trying to dupe people into cleaning up the capital ahead of the Olympics.