Hywel Francis

Hywel Francis
Hywel Francis was Labour MP for Aberavon from 2001 to 2015. An expert on South Wales labour movement history, and former Professor of Continuing Education at Swansea University, he was the founder of the South Wales Miners' Library and co-author of The Fed, the definitive history of the South Wales miners. He is also author of History on our Side: Wales and the 1984/5 Miners' strike and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Welsh miners made up one of the largest contingents within the British Battalion of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. Coming from the valleys all across South Wales, they brought...

Rada Ivekovic
Rada Iveković, philosopher, writer and feminist was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. She is currently Programme Director at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris. She has taught at

Romila Thapar
Romila Thapar (born 30 November 1931) is a distinguished Indian historian whose principal area of study is ancient India. She is the author of numerous substantial books including the popular class

Anjali Gandhi
Dr. Anjali Gandhi is a Professor at the Department of Social Work, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

Gogu Shyamala
Gogu Shyamala is a senior fellow at the Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies, Hyderabad. She has documented and edited Dalit women's writings in Telugu.

Edward Said
Edward Said (1935–2003) was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and public intellectual who helped found the critical-theory field of postcolonialism. He authored several books, includin

Murray E.G. Smith
Murray E.G. Smith is a Professor in the Department of Sociology, Brock University, Ontario, Canada.

Harbans Mukhia
Harbans Mukhia taught medieval history for 44 years at Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru Univesity. He is the founder-editor of The Medieval History Journal.

Allan Engler
Allan Engler is a Canadian activist and writer.

Vasanth Kannabiran
Vasanth Kannabiran is a feminist poet and writer. She is a founder-member of Asmita Collective, which works on issues of women's rights.

Anna Rochester
Anna Rochester was an American labour reformer, journalist, political activist, and Communist. Although for several years an editor of the liberal monthly The World Tomorrow, Rochester is best reme

Subhoranjan Dasgupta
Subhoranjan Dasgupta is Professor, Human Sciences, Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata.

Mohini Anjum
Mohini Anjum is the former Professor and Head, Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, whose career in teaching and research spanned more than 36 years at Delhi School of Economic

Joseph Dietzgen
Born near Cologne in 1828, Joseph Dietzgen worked most of his life as a tanner. A self-educated man, he participated in the Revolution of 1848 where he first read the writings of Karl Marx and beca