What role did 'freelance' underground operatives play in defeating apartheid in South Africa? Tshepo Moloi on a mother and daughter who crossed borders and languages
How did young people in 1980s Ireland navigate a lack of sex education and repressive climate around sexual health? Laura Kelly explores the activist history of the Irish Family Planning Association Youth Group.
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?
