Aspiring to Tahrir Justin Pearce asks when African hope will translate into real change
Winners and losers: The human price of Olympic gold The metal for the 2012 medals will come from Salt Lake City and the Gobi desert. Richard Harkinson introduces activists fighting Rio Tinto plc’s hazardous mines
African awakenings: Hope for the future Firoze Manji charts the revolts and rebellions that have been occurring not just in northern Africa but across the whole continent
Toronto tales Juliette Daigre and Tom Malleson guide us round Canada’s most radical city
Occupy Wall Street meets winter Yotam Marom finds the Occupy movement hoping that the winter of austerity might give way to the flowering of real alternatives
Mythbuster: The truth about the unions As the Tories and their pals in the press ratchet up the anti-strike rhetoric, Red Pepper knocks down some of the myths they throw at the unions