The ICU was a union-cum-protest movement in the north-west of South Africa in the 1920s and 1930s. Laurence Stewart explores its messages and methods and their relevance today.
The History Workshop in Johannesburg emerged from intersecting impulses that coursed through the academy and society in South Africa and globally in the 1970s and 1980s. Noor Nieftagodien on its history and present.
Long before the modern disabled people's movement, people with impairments were claiming disability as a social and political identity. David Turner reflects on the development of disabled people's activism in Victorian Britain.
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.
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.
Asbestos can still be found in tens of thousands of public buildings, including housing, schools and hospitals, across the UK. Tom White explores the nationwide call to 'raise the dust' in the anti-asbestos movement.
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?
May Ayim was key to the Black German civil rights movement in the 1980s and 1990s. But how did her work across borders exemplify cosmopolitanism from below? Tiffany N. Florvil explores the life and networks of a visionary.
On the 50 year anniversary of the coup in Chile, Maria Vasquez-Aguilar offers a personal testimony of the impact of that day and the continued activism of the Chilean people.
What might the story of a summer camp tell us about the practice and politics of solidarity? Sorcha Thomson on the 'Friends of Palestine' camp of 1969.
