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  • A collage of images featuring Peter Kennard and two of his artworks - one showing a CND logo cutting through a bomb, the other a shadow of a person against the flag of Ukraine

    Peter Kennard: pictures for peace

    Peter Kennard reflects on a career focused on creating anti-war art, from documenting protests to dissecting nuclear weapons

  • A black and white photograph shows a panel of speakers sitting behind a table in the 1970s

    New circuits of anti-racism: The Institute of Race Relations at 50

    As the Institute of Race Relations marks 50 years of struggle, Liam Shrivastava explores what its evolution can teach us about anti-racism today

  • Article author Johnathan Steele (left) sat next to former premier of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev (right)

    How the West scuppered Gorbachev’s reforms

    Drawing on his observations of Gorbachev, Jonathan Steele details how Western interests and Yeltsin’s ambition undermined his strategy for gradual reform

  • The director Peter Brook is shown in profile in a theatre

    Peter Brook and the empty space

    The late Peter Brook was a theatre director extraordinaire. Tony Graham shows how despite occasional misjudgements, he will inspire future generations for years to come

  • A still from Oleksandr Dovzhenko's 1928 film Zvenigora

    Zvenigora: Looking back at a Ukrainian cinema marvel

    The current war in Ukraine gives a new significance to the work of the Soviet-era Ukrainian film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, writes Juliet Jacques

  • Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (left) and former US President Ronald Reagan (right) sat together in a golf cart

    Key words: Neoliberalism

    In the first in our keywords series, Gregk Foley traces the birth of neoliberal economics and how it came to rule the world

  • Photo collage combining various photos of children in institutional settings and a portrait of Hans Asperger in the centre of the collage

    Who counts as autistic?

    ‘Autism Awareness Month’ fails to give autistic people any influence over discussions of their neurology, argues Gerry Hart

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