What does the archive of a former activist reveal about solidarity practices in the 1970s? James Downs explores the networks and activities of the Solidarity Committees supporting liberation movements in the Gulf.

South Africa’s racist regime murdered Ruth First, one of the leading activist-intellectuals of the anti-apartheid movement. First’s creative Marxist work on postcolonial Africa has outlived her assassins and is reaching a new audience today.

NLR 160, July–August 2026. Includes articles by Perry Anderson, Julian Stallabrass, Donald Sassoon, Benjamin Kunkel, Mao Jian, Ilya Budraitskis, Carlo Ginzburg, Perry Anderson and Mario del Pero

How might mass politics and direct action work together? Martin Shaw reflects on his experience in the student protests and antinuclear movement of the 1960s to the Palestine solidarity campaign of the 2020s.

Exile, Internationalism, and Resistance to Empire

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Vol. 54, No. 4, 2026)

by Alfie Hancox [T]he empathy between the Black oppressed transcends the barriers of parochialism [and] reaches those similarly oppressed in Toxteth, Tottenham, Brixton, Soweto… (Gilroy et al. 1986, 1...

NLR 159, May–June 2026. Includes articles by Tom Mertes, Jack Copley, Katie Ebner-Landy, Anton Jäger, Thea Riofrancos, Javier Moreno Zacarés, Christian Sorace, David Sneath and Régis Debray

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Throughout my doctoral research on anti-imperialism and international solidarity politics among the British New Left of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, I have often wrestled with the question of the “umbrell...

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Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Mike Phipps reviews In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956, edited by Daniel Frost and Evan Smith, published by Manchester University Press. This book covers a huge range of material. There is a wealth of detail about state surveillance of left groups, much of it unearthed in the Undercover Policing Inquiry. The Anti-Nazi League and School Kids Against the Nazis were targeted, in contrast with the far right, a genuinely serious threat to public order, who were not infiltrated at all. It was impossible for the state to infiltrate Britain’s Black Power movement, as the Metropolitan Police had not recruited a single non-white officer before 1967.

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Although it ended in tragic defeat, the Communist International was one of the most ambitious exercises in transnational political activism ever conceived. Its rise and fall gives us a crucial window ...

Although it ended in tragic defeat, the Communist International was one of the most ambitious exercises in transnational political activism ever conceived. Its rise and fall gives us a crucial window ...

Ofer Cassif — currently suspended from the Knesset for opposing genocide in Gaza — discusses Israel’s descent into fascism, building the movement that can defeat Netanyahu, and why he will never give ...