| 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...

| 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...

| 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...

| 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....

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Wu Ming 1 about his contribution, climate activism, the occupy movement and the mystery why writers on the left still do not publish under copyleft or creative commons.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...

| 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:...

| 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...