Columns / Cartoon History

Polyp tells the story of the movement that shook up civil rights in Britain – and refused the limitations of respectable politics.

ILYA traces the key role of propaganda in Kenya’s Mau Mau anti-colonial rebellion – and examines how history is made.

Polyp introduces the Chartists, a 19th-century movement in Britain which inspired rebels across the globe.

ILYA looks back to when Britain crushed an anti-imperialist rebellion in Kenya.

Michelle Kinsey Bruns and Gianna Meola tell the story of a women-led movement to resist anti-abortion terrorism.

The story of a Cuban-born US Civil War commander who returned to his homeland to fight Spanish imperialism. By Julio Anta and illustrated by Yasmín Flores Montañez.

ILYA looks back on the botched US invasion of Cuba after Fidel Castro’s revolution.

Polyp charts the 19th century textile worker rebellions in graphic form.

ILYA charts the long ‘dirty war’ that left Algeria finally free of French rule, but at what cost?

David Lester and Marcus Rediker with Paul Buhle.

French rule in Algeria. Illustration by Ilya.

Jack Dunleavy and Lawrence Dodgson tell the story of the soda giant’s botched campaign in the Philippines.

The Malayan Emergency and Batang Kali massacre by Ilya.

Polyp tells the astounding story of an almost forgotten revolutionary.

ILYA recounts how hundreds of unarmed civilians were slaughtered by troops under British command in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

A people's history by Darryl Cunningham.

ILYA sketches the uplifting life-story of an inspirational legal defender of the rights of women and religious minorities in Pakistan.

The rise of a dictator by Darryl Cunningham.

ILYA brings to life a second chapter in the life of the Māori warrior chief as he becomes embroiled in a bitter rebellion against the British and their allies in the War of the North.

How Britain robbed an island and made its people disappear by Florian Grosset.