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Lessons from the pandemic

How can we transform the calamity that has befallen us and create healing? Vanessa Baird on the change we can be.

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Covid-19: Lessons from the pandemic

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Anti-blackness is still a galvanizing force in India, writes Nilanjana Bhowmick.

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Colombian technocrat Iván Duque Márquez is not exactly a fan of peace.

A trans sex worker takes to the streets of Tegucigalpa  Credit: Frauke Decoodt

How trans women in Honduras are helping their imprisoned sisters. Frauke Decoodt reports from Tegucigalpa.

A man takes rest on the roadside in a Carapicuiba City favela.  ​Image by Luiz Gonzaga De Souza/Pixabay

Leonardo Sakamoto reflects on the police killing of João Pedro Matos Pinto, a 14-year-old black boy, and one of many Brazilian George Floyds.

Calling for a green economic recovery from Covid-19 near the British Parliament. Credit: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Nurphoto/PA images

Jake Woodier on the climate activists challenging corporate bailouts for the world’s polluters

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Amy Hall makes the case for people-powered housing.

 

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Covid-19: Lessons from the pandemic
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The Kurds: Betrayed again
/issues/2020/04/22/fight-clean-air
The fight for clean air
/issues/2020/02/17/how-we-make-poverty
How we make poverty
/issues/2019/12/17/freedom-move-everyone
Freedom to move – for everyone
/issues/2019/10/28/china-charge
China in charge
/issues/2020/02/04/who-owns-sea
Who owns the sea?
/issues/2020/02/04/right-city
The right to the city
/issues/2019/04/23/how-avoid-climate-breakdown
How to avoid climate breakdown
/issues/2019/03/06/building-new-internationalism
Building a new internationalism

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