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The ‘Cursed Objects’ podcast meets journalist Jack Shenker, and his broken revolutionary mug
What happened when Sanaa Seif tried to shame the authorities into releasing her brother?
On asylum, the UK’s political class has failed everyone - again and again. This audio deep dive into the making of the modern Home Office finds out why
When the 2011 riots broke out, they were widely dismissed as plain criminality. A new work by artist Baff Akoto tells a different story – and shows how the civil unrest implicates us all
Ten years after the revolution, Tahrir Square is sanitised, the dictatorship in place harsher than the one it replaced. But while the revolutionary generation came from ruins, it is not ruined
From military barracks to private security guards: what kind of country awaits asylum seekers reaching the UK?
How the coronavirus pandemic struck at the heart of Britain's government - and what it revealed about whose lives matter to those who govern us
A keynote lecture given for the Stuart Hall Foundation's Third Annual Public Conversation at Conway Hall, London
A hundred years on from the Russian Revolution, exploring John Reed's 'Ten Days That Shook The World' on the banks of the Nile
A series of special reports exploring the legacy of the Marikana mineworker massacre, in South Africa and beyond.
As XR shifts away from radical action and the UK government restricts the right to protest, the climate movement is asking tough questions
In an arena of guns and certainties, other fault lines fade to darkness. This latest wave of state violence aims at destroying the very conditions of audibility in which revolutionary voices can be heard
An exclusive investigation for the Guardian that provoked international outrage, and forced a policy change across Europe
Mohamed Munadi's Tunisian village was barely affected by the uprising, but when Libya erupted he was one of many who fled to new shores
A selection of news, comment and analysis from Jack Shenker’s award-winning Guardian coverage of Egypt’s revolutionary uprising
For over 24 hours earlier this month, a village in southern Gaza was devastated by an Israeli army attack. Jack Shenker revisits a day of destruction.
Excluded from the rapid development of Sinai’s tourist coast and subject to a prolonged police crackdown, the Bedouins who have made the Peninsula their home for centuries now teeter on the brink of social implosion