Image J18: In the City... All Around the World – Black Flag Black Flag on the J18 anti-capitalist protests on June 18th 1999 in London and globally.
Image The post-war strike wave in East, West, and Southern Africa From the end of the Second World War until the mid-'60s there was a wave of strikes in British East…
Image The 1945 Nigerian General Strike In 1945 a general strike involving tens of thousands of workers began with railway workers, then spread to other nationalised industries…
Image The Iva Valley Shooting at Enugu Colliery, Nigeria: African Workers’ Aspirations and the Failure of Colonial Labor Reform The Iva Valley Shooting at Enugu Colliery, Nigeria: African Workers’ Aspirations…
Image The Iva Valley miners strike and massacre at Enugu colliery, 1949 On the 18th November 1949, 21 striking miners and a bystander were shot dead at a British government…
Image LGBT refugee wins legal battle to stay in UK Aderonke Apata was accused of faking her sexuality, but has now won her 13 year battle for asylum.
Image The Aba Women's War The “Women’s War” is seen as the first major challenge to British authority in Nigeria and West Africa during the colonial period, and took…
Image Aba Women’s War of 1929 Short history by Lorna Lueker Zukas of the Aba Women's War of 1929-1930 against social, political and economic grievances with British colonial…
Image 1984: Ogharefe Women Blockade Pan Ocean Oil In their struggle with the global oil giant Pan Ocean Oil the women of the Ogharefe used blockades and a traditional African custom to force the…
Image The imperialist legacy of Boko Haram The widespread poverty and deprivation from Nigeria's neocolonial legacy has created a fertile recruiting ground for Boko Haram's Islamist…
Image An interview with Nigerian anarchist, Sam Mbah Transcript of an interview with Sam Mbah, co-author of African Anarchism, conducted in Nigeria in March 2012. In it he discusses the Awareness…
Image Class struggles in the Nigerian coal industry, 1914-1949 In-depth study of working class organisation at the Enugu Government Colliery in Nigeria from its…