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Article examining the extent and nature of women's oppression in Turkey, the attempts of secular-nationalist movements to improve women's conditions and outlining the possible shape of a future feminist movement in the country.

When the UK government declared it was joining the US-led invasion of Iraq, young people defied expectations & organised mass anti-war campaigns in schools & communities. Katherine Connelly reflects on the impact of their resistance to the Iraq War.

Abstract (Summary) Amid the growing pile of books with variations on the ideas of Why We are Losing the War on Terror and Why They Hate Us, comes a [...]

Living in war-torn Afghanistan, David Macdonald, a sociologist with extensive experience in the field of drug control in several countries in Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, has used his own experience in penning his new book, ‘Elvis in Kabul’

Fifth Estate Magazine, radical publishing since 1965

The defeat of the Russian army is now the only solution for our country which has been taken over by thieves and obscurantist reactionaries trying to destroy education and abolish remaining human rights, including the most basic ones that were upheld even under Stalin. Putin’s victory would be the worst disaster to befall Russia in modern history.

Writer, journalist, filmmaker and tennis enthusiast David Berry shows that tennis has a secret radical history, writes Alex Salmon.

An essay written during the middle of the Grunwicks strike in Willesden, north-west London. A predominatly east African Asian female workforce went on strike against poor conditions and for union recognition.

The purpose of this article is to explain the origin and evolution of Russian imperialism and to discuss the war on Ukraine in that light of that understanding.

Abstract (Summary) The title, at that time, was one of a very small number daring to probe into the nature of the illness that had produced not only the [...]