colonialism

Rescuing the lost history of anti-colonial fighter and Communist W. Alphaeus Hunton

February 16, 2022 By Timothy V. Johnson

Hunton, a leading figure in the struggle for African-American equality and against colonialism, was a well-known figure from the 1930s through the 1950s. The silencing of Black communist history, however, has left his life unexamined by...

‘The Thirtieth of January’: Crime and tragedy commemorated in a historical painting

January 28, 2022 By Jenny Farrell

When Robert Ballagh found a growing need to make a statement on the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, he felt drawn to paintings that had impacted him in the past.

Collective punishment, indiscriminate shooting: Bloody Sunday in Derry 50 years ago

January 28, 2022 By Niall Farrell

On Sunday, January 30, 1972, a British Parachute regiment carried out a massacre of 14 peaceful demonstrators at an anti-internment march in the Catholic district of the Bogside.

Not so nice: A history of Canada’s imperialist handmaiden military

January 27, 2022 By Steve Lalla

Stand on Guard for Whom: A People’s History of the Canadian Military exposes Canada’s role as the handmaiden of imperialism—first of the British, then of the U.S.

The LandBack movement is decolonizing Indigenous land across the Americas

January 21, 2022 By Albert Bender

The basic LandBack issue is simple: “Give us the land back.” For many Indigenous peoples, getting the land back is first one of economics, as the stronger an Indigenous nation is economically, the stronger it is...