IBM, the Holocaust and the hacker
The history of International Business Machines (IBM), how they were used by the Nazis, and how one statistician gamed the system to save thousands of Jewish lives.
Futures & Histories
Revisiting the ideas of Hannah Arendt in the era of fake news
Cat Lawton-Westerland explores the idea of malleable truth. "The disempowering narrative that we cannot discern the truth, that we do not have the skills to find it, is itself a tool of oppression."
The ‘War on Neds’ and contradiction: 1995–2008
Gavin Brewis traces the history of Scotland's 'War on Neds'. At the centre of a nation-wide moral panic targeting working class youth, Neds created a complex culture that was a direct response to material conditions of poverty, violence, and exclusion.
'Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards': The story of Willem Arondeus, queer antifascist
Arondeus shows that the queer community is one of the strongest and the bravest, willing to fight back, risk everything and act in order to save lives from fascism. In the words of one of the queer antifascists currently fighting Daesh in Syria, 'These faggots fight fascists'.
Remembering the Radical Nurses Group
The Radical Nurses Group was established in the 1980s and active throughout that decade. The grassroots collective was small, but was able to form bonds of solidarity and support within their profession, taking a strongly political stance to their work and the conditions that were created from it.