The “special relationship”, declared prime minister Keir Starmer in his first official visit to White House in July 2024, was “stronger now than ever”.1The meeting in Washington was a triumph for him. It was the reward for shadowing dutifully the… Continue Reading
A review of No Justice, No Police? The Politics of Protest and Social Change by Matt Clement (ed) (Zero, 2023), £22.99 It is estimated that more than 600 people are killed by law enforcement each year in the United States.… Continue Reading
In a world beset by major interlocking crises, the United States, still the world’s largest economic and military power, is experiencing an unsettled election season.1 Predictions of a landslide victory for an increasingly untethered Donald Trump have dissipated with Vice… Continue Reading
The richest and most powerful nation on the globe set the clock back on women’s reproductive rights by half a century on 24 June 2022. This was the day the United States Supreme Court reversed its ruling on the landmark… Continue Reading
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement of 2020 was arguably the most inspiring movement against racism in recent decades.1 It represented the largest social movement in the history of the United States and forced discussions about racism onto the agenda… Continue Reading
A review of The Broken Heart of America: St Louis and the Violent History of the United States, Walter Johnson (Basic, 2020), £15 The Broken Heart of America is a tremendous book that everyone interested in the history of the… Continue Reading
A review of Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical—The Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes, Adam Hochschild (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), £12 Crystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life, Amy Aronson (Oxford University Press, 2019), £25.49 Two new biographies unearth… Continue Reading
Donald Trump was elected to the United States presidency in 2016 by the votes of the Christian right. Some 81 percent of evangelical Christians, who made up a third of the total electorate, voted for him. Not only did a… Continue Reading
The election of Donald J Trump as President of the United States of America has rightly been greeted with disgust by many around the world. After a lengthy election season in which the two main parties were led by two… Continue Reading
A review of Michael Helquist, Marie Equi: Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions (Oregon State University Press, 2015), £19 On May Day 1950 the dockers’ union in Portland, Oregon, presented a bouquet of 13 red roses and a poem to 78-year-old… Continue Reading