The radical historian Howard Zinn is best known for his book A People’s History Of The United States.
Ed Hill is a Bristol based activist who visited Palestine in 2005 and 2006 for the olive harvest as part of the Zaytoun collective, which imports and sells fair trade Palestinian olive oil.
South London has traditionally been a fertile ground of black cultural expression and militancy. In recent years it has been home to a new wave of black poetry that picks up on the tradition of spoken word pioneers such as the Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron.
Single mothers are for many one of the last acceptable scapegoats for society’s ills. They are blamed for everything from hogging council flats to creating "yob culture", and frequently portrayed as a morally degenerate and selfish group that we would all be better off without.
This year’s Turner prize for contemporary art went to Mark Wallinger for his installation State Britain, a reproduction of Brian Haw’s peace protest in Parliament Square that was torn down by police in May 2006.
For most people Ewan MacColl – if they recognise the name at all – was the folk singer who wrote The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and Dirty Old Town.
Three classic Cuban films by two of the country’s most important directors have just been released on DVD for the first time.
Bauhaus is an approach to design which combines crafts with fine art.
In 1967, at the high point of the civil rights movement in the US, Ebony magazine proclaimed, "This is the summer of ’Retha, Rap, and Revolt".
The celebrated Cultures of Resistance gig returns to London this month courtesy of Socialist Worker. It features The Bays, Jerry Dammers, Denys Baptiste, and Natty.
By the 1790s, one quarter of Britain’s income came from the West Indies and much of it from the sugar trade. London established itself as a centre of global commerce in this period – but behind it lay slavery.
In 1845 Frederick Douglass arrived in Ireland and began a speaking tour that would take him across Scotland and England.
