31 August 2012 Josie picks the eight books she'd take to the ends of the earth with her

29 August 2012 As the Paralympics open, disabled people are facing an onslaught of cuts. But as Lorna Stephenson discovers, disabled activists are a force to be reckoned with

26 August 2012 Ben Baumberg, Kate Bell and Declan Gaffney tackle some of the most common welfare myths

25 August 2012 The struggle of miners at the Lonmin mine in South Africa is a turning point in organised workers’ relationship with the now thoroughly neoliberal ANC argues Leonard Gentle, setting the strike in historical and political context

25 August 2012 The uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt have been sustained by an active countercultural scene, discovers Lorenzo Fe

24 August 2012 Andrew Bowman and Leigh Phillips look at how central banks have used the crisis to carve out a new role – from propping up bankers to toppling governments

23 August 2012 Jenny Chan talks about her campaigning with workers in China

22 August 2012 Bradford community activist Naweed Hussein had been a member of the Labour Party since his teens – until he left to join George Galloway’s victorious by-election campaign. Here he speaks to Jenny Pearce

21 August 2012 Economist Harry Shutt argues that Keynes' economic theories have ultimately served to propel capitalism towards corrupt and terminal failure

21 August 2012 Red Pepper’s South African sister paper reports on the slaughter of 34 Marikana mineworkers

21 August 2012 It is not inevitable that the feeding frenzy of privateers will succeed as people organise to resist them, writes Caroline Molloy

20 August 2012 'In a market-driven society, it is a tribute to human decency that anyone behaves with any morals at all'

19 August 2012 The role played by disabled groups, far from being one of passive victims, is exemplary for collective resistance, writes Michael Calderbank

16 August 2012 Alex Wood writes that the success of the IWW's campaign shows that even small numbers of workers, when acting collectively, can win

16 August 2012 As the verdict is announced on the controversial Pussy Riot case, Kate Fulton examines the global impact of the trial

13 August 2012 There has been a wave of resistance to plans to close Remploy factories, which provide safe employment to disabled people. Tim Hunt reports

10 August 2012 Mike Marqusee argues that the ceaseless injunction to consume, cheer and celebrate the Olympics has made the enjoyment of competitive sport something it is not and never should be – mandatory

9 August 2012 Rights of access in the UK owe much to a mass trespass onto Kinder Scout 80 years ago, Dave Toft writes

8 August 2012 The left is split over the achievements and compromises of today’s Sandinistas, following the re-election of Daniel Ortega as president in November. Here we present two views

8 August 2012 Nick Caistor takes another look at Domitila Barrios de Chungara's story of life in Bolivia's mining villages

7 August 2012 In post-coup Honduras, campesinos are having to fight biofuel barons for their land, reports Mike Gatehouse of the Latin America Bureau

7 August 2012 Marine Ices, by Tony Garnett, reviewed by Sheila Rowbotham

6 August 2012 Grace Livingstone gives an overview of overt and covert US military and intelligence interventions

6 August 2012 Responding to drug-related violence is a convenient pretext for the region’s elites to achieve some rather different objectives, writes Annie Bird

6 August 2012 To Cook a Continent: destructive extraction and the climate crisis in Africa, by Nnimmo Bassey, reviewed by Tim Gee

5 August 2012 Jan Goodey meets poet Alan Morrison and explores his latest work on mental illness

5 August 2012 The Only House Left Standing: the Middle East journals of Tom Hurndall, reviewed by Ewa Jasiewicz

4 August 2012 Rebel Cities: from the right to the city to the urban revolution, by David Harvey, reviewed by Andre Pusey

3 August 2012 Kirill Martynov interviews Violetta Volkova, the lawyer defending feminist punk group Pussy Riot

3 August 2012 As the company faces complete closure by the government, this short from Small Axe Films meets Remploy workers in Barking who fear they will never work again

2 August 2012 Mark Perryman sees the potential for a different Games at Wednesday’s Cycling Time Trial