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Malawi Citizens’ Assembly member Daudi Amidu, a merchant trader, dances alongside fellow participants as they take a pause from considering ways to improve local spending rules in Salima South, Lake Malawi. MADALITSO BANDA/ALL HANDS ON

4 Mar 2021 7 minute read

Defibrillating democracy

A kickstart for a habitable future. Claire Mellier and Rich Wilson make the case for ...

A mural featuring a pro-Trump protester, self-styled QAnon ‘shaman’ Jacob Chansley, appeared in Tunbridge Wells, UK, a few days after the storming of the US Congress in Washington on 6 January. KARWAI TANG/WIREIMAGE/GETTY

18 Feb 2021 15 minute read

Democracy on the edge

Unloved and under threat from several sides, democracy seems to be in peril. Should it be saved – or helped to change?...

10 Sep 2019 5 minute read

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It’s lonely on the Left in Hong Kong

Bennett Murray speaks to Avery Ng, the leader of Hong Kong’s most leftwing party within...

14 Dec 2019 8 minute read

This article is more than one year old.

Kick ‘em all out! Citizens’ Assemblies and the next democratic revolution

Citizens’ Assemblies are being promoted as the preferred democratic tool of a new generation of activists, Brett...

Botswana

19 Aug 2018 3 minute read

This article is more than two years old.

Botswana: losing its sparkle?

Wame Molefhe profiles Botswana, where prosperity has morphed into corruption and...

Isaias Afwerki

25 Jul 2018 3 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

Worldbeater: Isaias Afwerki

We put the President of Eritrea’s track record – liberation fighter turned ruthless dictator – under the spotlight....

Members of the dissolved opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party inside a police vehicle in Phnom Penh.

3 Jul 2018 7 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

Cambodia’s ‘one party state’ prepares for polls

Prime Minister Hun Sen has dissolved newspapers and the opposition. Becky and Simon Kenton-Lake...

18 Jun 2018 6 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

The selfish giants

Laura Basu on how media ownership is getting more concentrated – and what to do about it.

A screenshot from Lush’s spycops campaign

4 Jun 2018 3 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

Why we need Lush’s Spycop campaign

Lush’s exposure of spycop wrongs will improve policing, Jenny Jones argues.

The Committees for the Defence of the Revolution blocked roads over Easter 2018

14 May 2018 5 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

The state vs people power in Catalonia

How the Committees for the Defence of the Republic are fighting for democracy in Catalonia. Luke Stobart...

Public Ownership

30 Apr 2018 8 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

The case for public ownership

After decades of neglect, the mood is turning. Dinyar Godrej on the fightback against privatization.

Liz McDaid and Makoma Lekalakaka in front of the country’s only nuclear power station – Koeberg.

23 Apr 2018 4 minute read

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The Women Who Stopped the Nuclear Deal

Makoma Lekalakala and Liz McDaid won the Goldman Environmental Prize for stopping a secret nuclear deal...

19 Apr 2018 11 minute read

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Adventures in democracy

A global social movement is rising. It is open, participatory and public, writes Jamie Kelsey-Fry.

The leaders of Russia and Hungary, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán

30 Apr 2018 5 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

Is Hungary mimicking Putin’s authoritarianism?

Has Putin exported ‘managed democracy’ to Hungary? Madeline Roache examines Orbán’s...

Opposition candidate Fabricio Alvarado from the National Restoration Party. Photo: Gustavo Fuchs

4 Apr 2018 9 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

Evangelical uprising: a new political opposition in Costa Rica

Right-wing Fabricio Alvarado may have lost, but his party’s rise remains worrying, writes Gustavo Fuchs.

A Rohingya refugee takes a moment’s pause, shortly after arriving in a makeshift camp at Teknaf, Bangladesh, last September. She is one of over 670,000 people to have fled over the border from Myanmar since August 2017.

31 Mar 2018 7 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

Fleeing Myanmar

Parsa Sanjana Sajid speaks to Rohingya refugees trapped on the Bangladeshi border.

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