| Abby McFlynn and Jonny Gordon-Farleigh | “Clearly somebody doesn’t want to hear the story about the Heathrow Campaign,” said John Stewart, someone who has been described as the most effective activist in the UK, as he retold his seven-hour detainment and interrogation by FBI, secret...

| Marianne Maeckelbergh |   La Nostra Elecció: L’ Acció Barcelona, Spain, November 2011 The streets of Barcelona appear deceptively calm at first sight. Fashionable people stroll the streets, shopping bags in hand, while others stop to drink a glass of wine at a sidewalk cafe....

| Nina Power | What will higher education in the UK look like in a few years’ time? What can we do right now to save it? If the coalition government’s vision in the Browne Report and subsequent White Paper is to be implemented in full we can imagine several things, all highly undesirable:...

| Jason Cridland | If you have viewed Unheard Voices: Youth, the “Riots” and the Media then you may have been struck with the perennial problem with the mainstream media: it speaks to us but not for us or with us. Local and national newspapers; TV; radio; magazines… all clichéd top...

| Joe Rake | Where We’re At Over the past few months a few of us who live at Grow Heathrow (our squatted community garden in the path of the now cancelled Heathrow 3rd runway) have been busy working with the SQUASH (Squatters Action for Secure Homes) campaign to resist the...

| John Stewart | Europe is awash with protests against airport expansion. Every Monday evening up to 5,000 residents occupy the terminal at Frankfurt Airport in protest against the impact of the recently-opened fourth runway (Here is a short video).   Thousands have taken to the streets in...

| Dan Glass | This collection of videos document the recent notorious Aviation Justice Express Tour. With aviation being the fastest growing cause of global CO2 emissions, Aviation Justice Express Tour are proud to launch the first transatlantic network of grassroots campaigns determined to...

| David Bollier | If only the rest of the world could emulate the Government of Rajasthan in India in adopting public policies to promote the commons! As the Times of India reports, “Rajasthan has become the first state in the country to have drafted a policy underlining the importance and...

| David Bollier | Atmospheric Trust Litigation vs. the Obama Administration So another climate change summit (Durban, South Africa) has produced no action, even in the face of mounting evidence of the deterioration of the planet’s atmosphere. Climate change denial has now moved from the...

| Marianne Maeckelbergh | Egypt’s Democracy: A Question of Legitimacy from brandon jourdan on Vimeo. Crossroads in Cairo: The Economics of Democracy , Cairo,December 2011 Cairo is a city engulfed in violent anticipation. Activists speak with pride about what they are accomplishing as...

| Katherine Selby | Now in its 40th year, the Essential food cooperative presents itself as a viable alternative to the unjust food system, and its worker-owner management model is a inspiring example to anyone who wants to change their relationship to food and the people who produce it. The...

| Gabriel Kuhn | Modern football is often criticized for bringing the history of football as the “people’s game” to an end. Authors like Matthew Bazell (Theatre of Silence, 2008) speak of the game’s “lost soul.” With respect to professional soccer and its ever increasing...

As I’m with the Bears, a collection of short stories from a damaged planet, is published, I interviewed Wu Ming 1 about his contribution, climate activism, the occupy movement and the mystery why writers on the left still do not publish under copyleft or creative commons. Stir: In Bill...

| Michael Newman | We are trapped in an ever-repeated education debate, whose very simplicity and facile nature allows everyone to contribute equally; meanwhile, our children are taught that learning is about exams, their futures, and what jobs they are to do. The majority struggle, the...

| Dr Mark Everard | We live in a fragmented landscape.  This would matter a lot less if human populations were sparse and ecosystems across the globe were in a healthy state.  However, the exact converse is the case today: human numbers have exceeded seven billion with the fastest rates of...

| Mat Callahan | The criminalization of file sharing spearheaded by groups such as the Recording Industry Association of America has been underway for more than a decade. While this strategy has failed to halt the decline in the sales of recorded music or the increase in the sharing of music...

| A conversation with teacher and activist Nina Power, Co-Editor Michael Bailey and independent researcher Andrew McGettigan | Nina Power: Let’s start with the book – can you talk about the motivations behind getting these essays together? Why you decided to work with Des Freedman? What...

| Jonny Gordon-Farleigh interviews the editors of White Riot:Punk Rock and the Politics of Race, Stephen Duncombe and Maxwell Tremblay | Stir: Your new book White Riot looks at a particular response to another period of enforced austerity: Punk Rock.  It seems a good time to look back at the...

  | Guppi Bola & Bethan Graham | Our decisions about food are complicated by the fact that we don’t eat alone. Table fellowship has forged social bonds as far back as the archaeological record allows us to look. Food, family, and memory are primordially linked. — Jonathan Safran...

| Tariq Ali | Chapter 2 PRESIDENT OF CANT Two years since the White House changed hands, how has the American empire altered? Under the Bush administration it was widely believed, in both mainstream opinion and much of the amnesiac section of the left, that the United States had fallen under...