Tag: radical lives

Campesinos Against Climate Change: The Fight for Economic Justice in Colombia
In the second of our features on social justice movements in Colombia, Milo Phillips reports on how climate change and neoliberal economic reforms have endangered the livelihoods of farmers - and how they are fighting back.
Take Back the City: The Disillusioned Londoners Calling for Radical Democracy.
Take Back the City proposes a radically different vision of political organising. In a city riven with social divisions and worsening living conditions, can it hope to achieve change for ordinary Londoners?
Radical Lives: Omar Aziz
From IT consultant to Syrian revolutionary, Omar Aziz might have looked an unlikely rebel on paper. However, his push for local councils in and around Damascus enabled new levels of coordination between militants and aided the functioning of cities under siege.
Radical Lives Christmas Special: Jesus Christ
In this Christmas edition of Radical Lives, Father Vlad Nikiforov revisits the life of Jesus to explore the revolutionary elements of his thinking and actions.
Radical Lives: Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst is commonly regarded among the first socialist feminists, but less widely known is her simultaneous commitment to fighting colonialism and fascism, and to amplifying the interconnectedness of these various systems of oppression.
Radical Lives: Moheba Khorsheed
An teacher, activist and later militia fighter, Moheba Khorsheed founded the Chrysanthemum Flowers - the first all-women armed organization of its kind. She also spent her life promoting tolerance and freedom of belief alongside Palestinian liberation.
Radical Lives: Charles Lahr
As a German radical in London who was initially suspected of plotting to assassinate Kaiser Wilhelm II, Charles Lahr was under constant surveillance from the Met. Best known for his bookshop and his involvement in radical publishing, Lahr was at the heart of a wide-ranging network of radicals in the early twentieth century.
Radical Lives: Mohammed Deif
Mohammed Deif has been a science student, theatre troupe leader, and more recently the chief commander of the Al-Qassam brigades in Gaza. His life has been controversial, and he remains an epitome of the 'freedom fighter/terrorist' icon. Though rumoured to be dead, the Al-Qassam brigades maintain he lives. It's not clear either way: his photo hasn't been taken in 30 years and he is rumoured to be a master of disguise.
Radical Lives: Claudia Jones
The second in the Novara Wire Radical Lives series explores the life and contributions of Claudia Jones, one of the founders of Notting Hill Carnival.
Radical Lives: George Padmore
Having risen through the ranks and then broken acrimoniously with the international Communist movement, George Padmore was at the front of a radical global movement against both colonialism and fascism in all their forms.
Introducing… Novara Wire Radical Lives
The history of the radical left is so often told through a focus on 'big names'. Radical Lives, a new Novara Wire series, is an attempt to revive some of the pivotal figures who have been hidden from history.