| Matthew Fish |   ‘Stop staring up, start looking down’, reads the slogan currently doing the rounds on London buses, courtesy of expert desire manufacturers M&C Saatchi. As part of an ad campaign promoting tours to the top of the latest addition to the city’s skyline, the...

| Florence Scialom |     The fact that globalisation has an impact on people’s lives in the UK is undeniable while the desirability and level of this impact is still very much up for debate. After spending the last few months in Totnes — a small yet increasingly well-known town...

| Marina Sitrin |   Introduction On the night of the 19th (2001) while the news was on television and the middle class was at home watching, seeing people from the most humble sectors crying, women crying in front of supermarkets, begging for or taking food, and the State of Siege was...

| Anthony Davidson |   With the coming food price crisis we need a social, local food industry to replace the corporate, profit-led, national food industry.  There are some ways we can protect ourselves from price hikes with the help of Social Enterprise BigBarn whose mission is to...

| Santiago Zabala | As Slavoj Zizek said, “the looming threat of ecological catastrophe” is probably the most urgent existential emergency we face today but this threat cannot simply be overcome by joining movements or green parties; it must also be accompanied by an appropriate...

First Issue: £3.95 Order now (at the bottom of the page) and receive the magazine the week beginning April 15th 2013. Our first issue features filmmaker and activist Leah Borromeo writing about her film Cotton: Dirty White Gold and why 300,000 Indian farmers have committed suicide since 1995...

We’re excited to announce the launch of STIR Magazine quarterly print edition!   After publishing 9 issues online and an illustrated book of selected articles and interviews we are taking a giant leap and adding a regular print edition to our publications.  The quarterly magazine will...

  STIR: Volume One is now available to buy! Get your hands on a limited copy of our first published collection of articles and artwork. At a moment when alternatives are not obvious to all and most responses to austerity are all too predictable, this crowdfunded collection of articles...

| Jonny Gordon-Farleigh interviews Marina Sitrin |   In 2001, Argentina experienced the largest sovereign debt crisis in history.  As a result people’s bank accounts were frozen and workplaces were closed and asset-stripped – most Argentinians lost everything.  However,...

| Nick Reading |   On November 15th I rose at a somewhat joyless 4:30am, and, after the kettle had coughed itself to life in my cold, strip lit kitchen, I yawningly drained a cup of tea and set off heavy-eyed for a nearby church hall. I then worked for sixteen long, colourless hours as...

| Katrina Ceguera|   Co-Cycle is a collective organization that consists of seventeen young people interested in the cooperative model, bicycle transportation, and exploring the United States. With the mission of being a “youth-led, bike-powered tour linking co-ops across the...

| David Bollier and Silke Helfrich | Commons Strategies Group   Introduction to The Wealth of the Commons:  A World Beyond Market and State    (Levellers Press) It has become increasingly clear that we are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to...

| Mat Callahan |   Josef Brinckmann has 33 years professional experience in the global trade of herbal medicinal products. The most common of these products are teas, pastilles and syrups and Josef has worked with farmers and wild collectors in many parts of the world in bringing their...

| Denise Sullivan interviews Musician Tjinder Singh |     When I first heard Cornershop’s “6 A.M. Jullandar Shere” in the middle of the ’90s, it was as if I’d been awakened from a long sleep: I had no idea how the Punjabi language lyric translated, but the song drew me...

| Jonny Gordon-Farleigh interviews Sujatha Fernandes | In Close To the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation, author and activist Sujatha Fernandes looks at how Hip Hop can be a tool of social change, shares her disappointment in not finding a global fraternity, and shows how...

| Chuck Morse |   The Politics of Urbanism: Seeing like a City By Warren Magnusson Routledge: London and New York,2011 190 Pages “Under the pavement, the beach!” When activists in the Situationist International popularized this slogan during the 1968 uprising in Paris, they...

| James John Bell and J Cookson |   When people act to shut down a situation they put an alarm into action. But saying “Occupy Wall Street!” or “Stop the World Bank!” is only an entry point from which deeper solutions must grow in order for transformative change to occur....

| Brandon Jourdan |   On November 14th 2012, thousands of people took to the streets of Portugal as part of a European wide general strike. Until recently, the International Monetary Fund held Portugal as an ideal example of the effectiveness of austerity policies, but today, its economy...

| Brandon Jourdan |   This short documentary looks at the current social crisis in Greece, the growth of alternative economies, general strikes, and the rise of the anti-fascist movement in response to violent attacks by the far-right. After six years of recession, the situation in Greece...