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Books / 1 April 2025
1 April 2025
IAN SINCLAIR draws attention to the powerful role that literature plays in foreseeing the way humanity will deal with climate crisis
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Features / 29 March 2025
29 March 2025
Detailing the deluge of delusion and dishonesty pushed by the pro-war camp, IAN SINCLAIR identifies four key tactics corporate journalists use to confuse audiences and suppress opposition to the proxy war in the east
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Album reviews / 24 March 2025
24 March 2025
New releases from Black Country, New Road, Anouar Brahem, and Jaywalkers
The US-based MSG group wanted to build one of their light-po
Features / 9 January 2025
9 January 2025
IAN SINCLAIR tells the story of a small group of east London activists who took on and defeated a billion-dollar US corporation that wanted to build a giant sphere venue coated in gaudy LED lights
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Features / 2 January 2025
2 January 2025
The media’s shocking lack of interest in US-British involvement in Syria means it has effectively been a secret war, argues IAN SINCLAIR
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Music / 12 December 2024
12 December 2024
New releases from Ghais Guevara, Kim Deal and Hardwicke Circus
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Features / 9 December 2024
9 December 2024
Ian Sinclair talks to BILL BREEDEN, a retired Unitarian Universalist minister living in southern Indiana, and a longstanding opponent of the death penalty in the United States
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Features / 23 November 2024
23 November 2024
The British press has welcomed Keir Starmer’s new National Security Adviser without any mention of his deep, central involvement in the criminal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan — but history remembers, writes IAN SINCLAIR
ACTION: A Fossil Free London activist disrupts the 2023 Shel
Features / 9 November 2024
9 November 2024
As a new report reveals how dire the climate situation is now, other recent research demonstrates how activism – namely Extinction Rebellion and the school strikes – has already forced governments into action, writes IAN SINCLAIR
FUELLING CONFLICT: Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte (right)
Features / 19 October 2024
19 October 2024
Ian Sinclair interviews MEDEA BENJAMIN and DAVID SWANSON about their new book on Nato, explaining how the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia established a template for military interventions, undermining international law and diplomacy
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Features / 28 September 2024
28 September 2024
IAN SINCLAIR mourns the end of the longstanding activist newspaper that proudly stood ‘For Revolutionary Nonviolence’
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Obituary / 3 September 2024
3 September 2024
Strategist of non-violent action dies age 95
Just Stop Oil protesters take part in a walking protest bloc
Features / 24 August 2024
24 August 2024
Social scientist DANA R FISHER speaks to Ian Sinclair about the efficacy of disruptive actions carried out by groups such as Just Stop Oil, the conditions that might generate a truly mass climate mobilisation, and what a win for Kamala Harris in the upcoming US presidential election would mean
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Features / 19 July 2024
19 July 2024
Why has our government been silent on the months-long shutdown of Kuwait’s parliament – and why do academics so often refrain from criticising countries in the region, asks IAN SINCLAIR
Mourners attend the funeral of Muhammad Sarhan,15, in the We
Features / 14 July 2024
14 July 2024
From Palestine to Cameroon, ELLEN FURNARI speaks to Ian Sinclair about how non-violent strategies and local relationships offer effective alternatives to military interventions in protecting civilians from conflict
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Features / 29 June 2024
29 June 2024
Statistics show conclusively that the majority of Brits have repeatedly frightened the Establishment by consistently opposing military adventurism abroad, writes IAN SINCLAIR
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Features / 14 May 2024
14 May 2024
Major cities underwater, a billion climate refugees — many scientists now expect societal collapse due to climate change. Yet from the political elite here in Britain, we have nothing even approaching acknowledgement, writes IAN SINCLAIR
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Features / 6 May 2024
6 May 2024
Ian Sinclair speaks to SUSAN WILLIAMS about Britain and the US’s dark machinations against African leaders and nations they decided were at odds with their geopolitical interests in the 20th century — and the ongoing cover-up attempts
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Books / 29 April 2024
29 April 2024
IAN SINCLAIR recommends a book that points to ‘deep societal transformation’ as the only way to arrest climate change
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Features / 2 April 2024
2 April 2024
Speaking to RUPERT READ, Ian Sinclair discusses the urgency of climate action, the demise of the 1.5°C target, and the pivotal role of trade unions in building a majority against climate change
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Features / 24 February 2024
24 February 2024
When a government seems impossible to influence over an issue as life-or-death as war, it can lead those people left unheard to creative non-violent direct action — or to deadly brutality, warns IAN SINCLAIR
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Features / 14 February 2024
14 February 2024
A new report analyses how Western messaging during and after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine portrayed Russia’s motivations as pure, unprovoked expansionism — all in aid of prolonging the violence, explains IAN SINCLAIR
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Music / 29 January 2024
29 January 2024
New releases from: Pharoah Sanders, Bill Ryder-Jones and Violent Femmes
The British media’s complicity in Israel’s slaughter in
Features / 7 December 2023
7 December 2023
Just like with the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, the British public cannot trust the media to provide accurate, critical or historically contextual coverage of the war on Gaza, asserts IAN SINCLAIR
HISTORY OF SUCCESS: Non-violent campaigns won against aparth
Features / 24 November 2023
24 November 2023
The rush to understand and explain the context of the events of October 7 has revealed a growing ignorance about the effectiveness and logic of unarmed methods — IAN SINCLAIR responds
Palestine resistance
Features / 11 November 2023
11 November 2023
Ian Sinclair speaks to legal expert MARJORIE COHN about what international law says in regard to Israel’s right to self-defence, and Israeli actions against Palestinians more generally
Trident
Features / 6 November 2023
6 November 2023
In the second of two interviews on atomic conflict, Ian Sinclair speaks to peace activist MILAN RAI about the popular framing of Britain’s nuclear weapons being for ‘deterrence,’ and to explain his claim that Britain has carried out ‘nuclear terrorism’
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Features / 6 November 2023
6 November 2023
In the first of two interviews on peace and conflict, Ian Sinclair speaks to JOSEPH GERSON about his seminal 2007 book Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World
Never forget: grassroots activism is a crucial driver in sec
Features / 15 October 2023
15 October 2023
It is not in the interests of the Establishment to recognise the impact protest movements have had on everything from gay rights to ecology, but the evidence shows their role is essential, writes IAN SINCLAIR
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Culture / 20 September 2023
20 September 2023
New releases from The Mary Wallopers, Wilco, and Setting
Members of Fossil Free London protest the Shell AGM at Londo
Features / 4 September 2023
4 September 2023
IAN SINCLAIR gives the lowdown on a swathe of new environmental action campaigns that have sprung up in recent years
People take part in a protest against the proposed ultra-low
Features / 20 August 2023
20 August 2023
Ian Sinclair spoke to respiratory specialist DR LAURA-JANE SMITH about how the impact of air pollution on our health is badly underestimated and the kind of legislation needed across Britain to fight it
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Culture / 14 August 2023
14 August 2023
Reviews of Ani DiFranco, The Clientele and Emma Rawicz
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Features / 6 July 2023
6 July 2023
Ian Sinclair speaks to LILLAH FEARNLEY about her research on the power of opinion polls on government decisions such as military intervention against Syria — and how the powerful shape this critical research
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Music / 3 July 2023
3 July 2023
New releases from Bonny Doon, Speech Debelle and Jacob Young
US soldiers of the North Carolina Army National Guard in eas
Features / 16 May 2023
16 May 2023
With billions of dollars’ worth of weapons sent and thousands of US soldiers stationed, how was the myth of US non-intervention in Syria created, asks IAN SINCLAIR