Solidarities Across Borders

Practices and visions of solidarity have spanned the globe. This series explores where these solidarities come from, the challenges they might face, and how they can reflect, adapt and sometimes transform the worlds around them.

Learning with Lotus

Malak Abdelkhalek 17 December 202417 December 2024

What do anticolonial archives tell us about efforts to decolonise the university today? Malek Abdelkhalek reflects on anti-racism and solidarity in and beyond the classroom.

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Boycotting the Olympics

Malcolm MacLean 5 September 20245 September 2024

How does a sports boycott work? Malcolm MacLean reflects on the place of the sports boycott in Olympic history.

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Bonds of Mutuality in East Harlem

Brenna Moore & Carey Kasten 15 August 202413 August 2024

How have a small - and declining - group of nuns built grassroots power with immigrant families in East Harlem?

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Rainbow Mass

Selin Çağatay, Mia Liinason & Olga Sasunkevich 18 July 202418 July 2024

How have indigenous and queer traditions of resistance come together in the celebration of Pride on the Norwegian-Russian border?

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Reporting the Third World

Alina Sajed 23 May 202413 June 2024

Ryszard Kapuściński's journalistic style has attracted both praise and controversy. Alina Sajed reflects on the politics of Third World reportage.

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At the Edges of Amnesty

Michelle Carmody 7 May 20247 May 2024

How were solidarities negotiated in the making of a global human rights movement? The experience of Mongo Beti in Amnesty International reveals some of the barriers in play.

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Students & Afro-Asian Solidarity

Wildan Sena Utama 27 February 202427 February 2024

What did decolonisation mean to students in the Afro-Asian solidarity movement? Wildan Sena Utama explores the contributions and contentions of the conference that brought them together.

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Oil Workers, Revolution & Solidarity in the Caribbean

Ben Gowland 22 December 202321 December 2023

How can workers fight exploitation in a globalised world? What could be learnt from the anti-imperialism of Trinidad & Tobago's oldest trade union?

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Trekking with the Revolution: Birgitta Dahl in Guinea-Bissau

Emma Lundin 28 November 20235 December 2023

What might the trip of Birgitta Dahl to the meet Amílcar Cabral and the PAIGC liberation movement reveal about the motivations of transnational solidarity in the era of decolonisation?

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