George Orwell was the most influential British writer since 1945. Many of his neologisms – such as ‘Big Brother’, ‘Thought Police’, ‘Room 101’, ‘Newspeak’, ‘memory hole’, ‘doublethink’ and ...

George Orwell is about to take his place in British ... including his time living in poverty and serving as a volunteer during the Spanish Civil War. His insights into power, class, and society ...

The International Legion, in conjunction with NV, recently had a chance to sit down and speak with this Swedish volunteer.

George Norman Rodney Drury Fuller was a young medical student from Maidenhead who volunteered to join the war aged just 18 and who fought in one of its most ferocious battles.

A tenuous ceasefire has ended the hostilities in Gaza but the deep impacts of that conflict on Australian society continue to ...

On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

Ordinary and simple language is the key to effective rhetoric. But unlike much of the sloganeering from the right, it must be ...

Every war begins in blind folly and ends in unimagined suffering. This is true of all wars but especially of the First World ...

“Five years later, Orwell published an essay called ‘Looking Back on the Spanish War,’ in which he states, ‘War is evil, and ...

The Champaran region in Bihar — known for being the launching ground for Mahatma Gandhi’s historic 1917 Civil Disobedience Movement — has another claim to fame: it is the birthplace of George Orwell .