Victoria Brittain
Biographic Data
| ID | 88849 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria Brittain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria |
| FAMILY NAME | Brittain |
| SIGNATURE | BRITTAIN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Guardian (London and Manchester) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Nakba lives on: Palestinian women refugees in Jordan
An Arab‐Jew in Israel, then an Oxford historian
Dreams and nightmares from Africa
Capitalism's Conscience: 200 Years of the Guardian
Western ‘values’ in ‘postcolonial’ Africa
A journalist like no other
Israel: Killing is easier than making peace
The fate of Arab Jews in Israel
The Counterterrorism Industry
Guantánamo Diary, Murder at Camp Delta: A staff sergeant's pursuit of the truth about Guantánamo Bay, The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture and The Terror Courts: rough justice at Guantá…
Ken Saro-Wiwa: A Hero for Our Times
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the death of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Eight, executed by the Nigerian state after a trial overseen by judges loyal to the military dictatorship of General Sani Abacha. Here, we reproduce a selection of Saro-Wiwa's poems and an extract from his final speech to the tribunal that sentenced him to death. The author goes on to consider the legacy of Saro-Wiwa's struggle against the ecological destruction…
The Rebellious Life of Mrs Rosa Parks
It was another world
At the nadir of the history of the African National Congress, with its leadership in prison or exile and repression having almost broken the movement on the ground, young communists and socialists, recruited in London, went into the country clandestinely to diffuse propaganda leaflets, letters, and recorded speeches from the leadership. This story was kept secret for forty years until a number of the recruits wrote their stories and, on their ret…
Shadow lives
For years, families and friends have run campaigns in the UK to prevent the extradition to the US of a number of Muslim men of Middle Eastern or South Asian descent, two of whom are British nationals, to face 'terror' charges. (They should, if there is evidence against them, be tried in the UK.) The author, in a chapter from her forthcoming book, Shadow Lives, examines the impact of such terror laws on families of suspects. Here, the physical and…
A Palestine that might have been
Despite unremitting, decades-long attempts to present the narrative and history of the Palestinian struggle as Israel, the US and western powers would have us see it, there has been a persistent and enduring counter-view, backed by meticulous academic research, political and personal involvement, direct experience, campaigning and historical analysis, that continues to be expressed from myriad perspectives and in myriad ways. Some of the most sig…
From Khiam to Guantánamo and back: Ex-Prisoners and the Transformation of Perception
Beginning with a discussion of an exhibition of the creative work of former political prisoners in Khiam prison, South Lebanon, this article reflects on the unique capacities that former political prisoners have to transform the perceptions of others. It is argued that former political prisoners - whether they are Palestinians who were detained in Israeli prisons, or those detained at the behest of the US and UK governments in the 'war on terror'…
Besieged in Britain
The effects of the war on terror in restricting civil liberties have been widely documented; its exacerbation of Islamophobia less so. But one shocking development has remained invisible - the rounding up, imprisonment and indefinite house arrest of a number of Muslim men resident in the UK, in a situation analogous to Guantánamo. Held for years without charge, under restricted regimes of twelve to twenty-four hour curfews, with virtually no acce…
Guantanamo: A feminist perspective on U.S. human rights violations
On 24 May 2004 in London our play Guantanamo, Honour Bound to Defend Freedom opened in Tricycle, a small London theater. It is a play using only the words of the families of British prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay, their censored letters home, and the explanations of their lawyers of the legal black hole their clients are in. It was to be a tiny snapshot of what the war on terror means. But in fact it has proved to be, for many people who saw it…
They had to die: Assassination Against Liberation
The use of political assassinations against key leaders of liberation movements has had a major impact on the course of history in Africa and the Middle East. Not only have some of the greatest of Third World leaders been killed but so, too, has the hope for political change they embodied. This survey of assassinations carried out by western states and their agents from the 1960s onwards reveals a bloody legacy of killings of leaders from Algeria…
Guantanamo
The Future we Love to Hate: Technology in Sci-Fi — A Review Article
The Impact of War on Women
Dans cet aricle, l'A fait part de la situation des femmes en temps de guerre. Les Nations Unies ont mis en place une commisssion chargee de recueillir les temoignages de femmes victimes d'atrocites et de massacres dans le monde entier. L'A explique ici les impacts des conflits sur la famille, la sante des femmes mais surtout la dehumanisation de la femme, de son corps, de son identite
Jonas Savimbi, 1934–2002
(2002). Jonas Savimbi, 1934–2002. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 29, No. 91, pp. 128-130
Calvary of the women of eastern democratic republic of Congo (DRC)
(2002). Calvary of the women of eastern democratic republic of Congo (DRC) Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 29, No. 93-94, pp. 595-601
Cuba in Africa
Besieged in Britain
The effects of the war on terror in restricting civil liberties have been widely documented; its exacerbation of Islamophobia less so. But one shocking development has remained invisible - the rounding up, imprisonment and indefinite house arrest of a number of Muslim men resident in the UK, in a situation analogous to Guantánamo. Held for years without charge, under restricted regimes of twelve to twenty-four hour curfews, with virtually no acce…
They had to die: Assassination Against Liberation
The use of political assassinations against key leaders of liberation movements has had a major impact on the course of history in Africa and the Middle East. Not only have some of the greatest of Third World leaders been killed but so, too, has the hope for political change they embodied. This survey of assassinations carried out by western states and their agents from the 1960s onwards reveals a bloody legacy of killings of leaders from Algeria…
The Impact of War on Women
Dans cet aricle, l'A fait part de la situation des femmes en temps de guerre. Les Nations Unies ont mis en place une commisssion chargee de recueillir les temoignages de femmes victimes d'atrocites et de massacres dans le monde entier. L'A explique ici les impacts des conflits sur la famille, la sante des femmes mais surtout la dehumanisation de la femme, de son corps, de son identite
Ken Saro-Wiwa: A Hero for Our Times
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the death of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Eight, executed by the Nigerian state after a trial overseen by judges loyal to the military dictatorship of General Sani Abacha. Here, we reproduce a selection of Saro-Wiwa's poems and an extract from his final speech to the tribunal that sentenced him to death. The author goes on to consider the legacy of Saro-Wiwa's struggle against the ecological destruction…
Shadow lives
For years, families and friends have run campaigns in the UK to prevent the extradition to the US of a number of Muslim men of Middle Eastern or South Asian descent, two of whom are British nationals, to face 'terror' charges. (They should, if there is evidence against them, be tried in the UK.) The author, in a chapter from her forthcoming book, Shadow Lives, examines the impact of such terror laws on families of suspects. Here, the physical and…
Calvary of the women of eastern democratic republic of Congo (DRC)
(2002). Calvary of the women of eastern democratic republic of Congo (DRC) Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 29, No. 93-94, pp. 595-601
Introduction to Sankara & Burkina Faso
(1985). Introduction to Sankara & Burkina Faso. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 12, No. 32, pp. 39-47
Ghana’s Precarious Revolution
When Flight Lieutenant Rawlings seized power for the second time in Ghana on 31 December 1981 it was, like similar coups in Liberia and Ethiopia, under the pressure of intolerable economic crisis which had brought in its wake social and political crises of equally daunting proportions. Rawlings’s first
Introduction to Sankara & Burkina Faso
(1985). Introduction to Sankara & Burkina Faso. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 12, No. 32, pp. 39-47
Introduction to Ngugi
‘A time has come when silence before the crimes of the neo-colonial regime in Kenya is collusion with social evil’—so wrote Ngũgĩ in 1982 in his most recent book, Barrel of a Pen (New Beacon Books). It was a prophetic description
The Liberation of Kampala
The liberation of Uganda by what its protagonists called ‘a protracted people’s war’ took exactly five years. Such a change of government under armed popular pressure rather than by a coup d’etat has never before been achieved in Africa. Yoweri Museveni’s National Resistance Army (nra) was trained
Feature Reviews
Reagan and the world Turning the Tide: US Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace. Noam Chomsky, Boston: Pluto Press. 1985. 298pp. £5.95pb Reagan and the World: Imperial Policy in the New Cold War. Jeff McMahan, London: Pluto Press. 1984. 214pp. £3.95pb The Reagan Administration's Foreign Policy: Facts and Judgement of the International Tribunal. Edited by Hans Kochler, London: Third World Centre for Research and Publishing. 19…
Cuba and Southern Africa
After eight months of talks in Geneva between Angola, Cuba, South Africa and the United States, 1988 is drawing to a close with the distinct possibility that Pretoria may have been forced to end ten years of procrastination and redraw its regional strategy in such a way as
Africa: A Political Audit
A great Africanist
The longest war
Angolans have been the victims of civil war since 1975. Children, in particular, have been targeted, boys and girls have been kidnapped to serve in the ranks of UNITA; others, orphaned, traumatised, left to their own devices, hustle a life in the ruins of the cities
Colonialism and the Predatory State in the Congo
At independence, the Congo had only two graduates, and such fabulous riches that the country inevitably became a magnet for rapacious foreign companies and for the Western intelligence services. Kinshasa, as the capital Leopoldville was renamed, swelled with worldly businessmen not averse to secret deals. Once Lumumba was
Myths of Congo
From a simple scenario of the triumphant ousting of one of Africa's most notorious tyrants, Mobutu Sésé Seko, by a coalition of the continent's more respected leaders, the war in Congo has become a war of spoils and horrendous brutality
Jonas Savimbi, 1934–2002
(2002). Jonas Savimbi, 1934–2002. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 29, No. 91, pp. 128-130
Calvary of the women of eastern democratic republic of Congo (DRC)
(2002). Calvary of the women of eastern democratic republic of Congo (DRC) Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 29, No. 93-94, pp. 595-601
Cuba in Africa
Angola: What Kind of a Peace After Decades of War
Victoria Brittain was Associate Foreign Editor of The Guardian until March 2002. For the past 20 years, she has contributed regularly to numerous other publications, including Le Monde Diplomatique, and is the author of Death of Dignity: Angola's Civil War. Victoria is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Development Studies Institute (Crisis States programme), London School of Economics and Political Science
The Future we Love to Hate: Technology in Sci-Fi — A Review Article
The Impact of War on Women
Dans cet aricle, l'A fait part de la situation des femmes en temps de guerre. Les Nations Unies ont mis en place une commisssion chargee de recueillir les temoignages de femmes victimes d'atrocites et de massacres dans le monde entier. L'A explique ici les impacts des conflits sur la famille, la sante des femmes mais surtout la dehumanisation de la femme, de son corps, de son identite
Guantanamo
Guantanamo: A feminist perspective on U.S. human rights violations
On 24 May 2004 in London our play Guantanamo, Honour Bound to Defend Freedom opened in Tricycle, a small London theater. It is a play using only the words of the families of British prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay, their censored letters home, and the explanations of their lawyers of the legal black hole their clients are in. It was to be a tiny snapshot of what the war on terror means. But in fact it has proved to be, for many people who saw it…
They had to die: Assassination Against Liberation
The use of political assassinations against key leaders of liberation movements has had a major impact on the course of history in Africa and the Middle East. Not only have some of the greatest of Third World leaders been killed but so, too, has the hope for political change they embodied. This survey of assassinations carried out by western states and their agents from the 1960s onwards reveals a bloody legacy of killings of leaders from Algeria…
Besieged in Britain
The effects of the war on terror in restricting civil liberties have been widely documented; its exacerbation of Islamophobia less so. But one shocking development has remained invisible - the rounding up, imprisonment and indefinite house arrest of a number of Muslim men resident in the UK, in a situation analogous to Guantánamo. Held for years without charge, under restricted regimes of twelve to twenty-four hour curfews, with virtually no acce…
From Khiam to Guantánamo and back: Ex-Prisoners and the Transformation of Perception
Beginning with a discussion of an exhibition of the creative work of former political prisoners in Khiam prison, South Lebanon, this article reflects on the unique capacities that former political prisoners have to transform the perceptions of others. It is argued that former political prisoners - whether they are Palestinians who were detained in Israeli prisons, or those detained at the behest of the US and UK governments in the 'war on terror'…
A Palestine that might have been
Despite unremitting, decades-long attempts to present the narrative and history of the Palestinian struggle as Israel, the US and western powers would have us see it, there has been a persistent and enduring counter-view, backed by meticulous academic research, political and personal involvement, direct experience, campaigning and historical analysis, that continues to be expressed from myriad perspectives and in myriad ways. Some of the most sig…
It was another world
At the nadir of the history of the African National Congress, with its leadership in prison or exile and repression having almost broken the movement on the ground, young communists and socialists, recruited in London, went into the country clandestinely to diffuse propaganda leaflets, letters, and recorded speeches from the leadership. This story was kept secret for forty years until a number of the recruits wrote their stories and, on their ret…
Shadow lives
For years, families and friends have run campaigns in the UK to prevent the extradition to the US of a number of Muslim men of Middle Eastern or South Asian descent, two of whom are British nationals, to face 'terror' charges. (They should, if there is evidence against them, be tried in the UK.) The author, in a chapter from her forthcoming book, Shadow Lives, examines the impact of such terror laws on families of suspects. Here, the physical and…
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