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Ticking clock for Zimbabwe's drought-affected farmers
As Zimbabwe faces its worst drought in 40 years, Farai Shawn Matiashe speaks to farmers about the barriers to climate resilience.
Hunger strikes in the Indian Himalayas
Ahead of elections in Ladakh, locals say corporate interests are threatening lands and livelihoods. Sajad Hameed and Qazi Shibli report.
'I now understand how genocides happen'
Surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah talks to Bethany Rielly about healthcare as resistance and his experiences in Gaza’s besieged hospitals.
Is Gaza a blueprint for ecofascism?
Israel’s use and abuse of environmentalism should serve as a warning writes Henry Luzzatto.
The problem is capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis explores how we can transform debt from ball and chain to an enabler of shared prosperity.
Debt: who owes whom?
Amy Hall looks at the causes behind the global debt crisis and finds a movement shaking off the stigma and getting organized.
How Third Worldism was silenced
Kojo Koram charts the rise and fall of the anti-colonial New International Economic Order.
Bolivia
Turbulence has dominated Bolivia’s politics, writes Olivia Arigho Stiles, and the Right could soon seize power again.
Polls, public pressure and pipelines
Danny Chivers gives a round up of some key climate news stories.
What another Modi victory could mean for Muslims in India
With the Indian national elections underway, Tarushi Aswani reports on the consequences of expanded Hindu nationalism.
Poland's abortion turning point
Historic abortion bills put forth to Parliament could pave the way for other rights victories. Maxine Betteridge-Moes reports.
Peru's 'anti-forest law' rewards crime and screws the planet
The law boosts deforestation and endangers land defenders, but resistance is growing writes Vanessa Baird.
Senegal chooses the ballot over the bullet
Obiora Ikoku on the latest elections that made Senegal a democratic outlier in West Africa’s expanding coup belt.
Religious oil on ethnic fire in northern Nigeria
The notorious farmer-herder conflict can no longer be defined solely as a battle for resources. Promise Eze reports.
With all eyes on Gaza, Morocco strengthens its hold on Western Sahara
Maxine Betteridge-Moes reports from the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria, where people say their decades-long resistance is being ignored.
Gaza is another reason for division in polarized Brazil
Leonardo Sakamoto asks whether the Lula administration’s attempts at careful diplomacy on Israel-Palestine have reached a dead end.
Weapons made on my doorstep are helping to kill people in Gaza
British voters want to stop arming Israel, so why are spineless politicians ignoring them, asks Amy Hall.
'The poppy trade sustained the British empire'
Indian author Amitav Ghosh talks to Graeme Green about colonialism and the current opioid crisis.
Country Profile: South Korea
Hailey Maxwell profiles the East Asian nation and its flourishing soft power.
Uganda's anti-gay law is a license to discriminate
Sophie Neiman reports from Kampala, where activists are waging a bitter legal battle to overturn Uganda’s harsh anti-gay law.
Georgia
Successive Georgian presidents have attracted much-needed foreign aid and investment by acting as enthusiastic handmaidens to neoliberal reform. Emily Coatman…
Gazan para-cyclists deliver aid on bikes
With their dreams of competing at the Paris Paralympics shattered, the Gaza Sunbirds have pivoted to a full blown aid operation. Maxine Betteridge-Moes reports.
Four sources of climate hope
It's still possible to pull the world back from the climate brink, writes Danny Chivers.
Meloni's canny game
Italy’s extremist prime minister's embrace by the mainstream needs to end, argues Elena Siniscalco.
How do I advise young climate activists without stifling their autonomy?
Our resident Agony Uncle offers reflections from their own student days and advises that political organizing is two-way street.
View from India: Politicians using women
Why are women voting for a party whose leaders have paid mere lip service to gender equality? Nilanjana Bhowmick offers her take.
In Sudan, women's bodies have long been the battleground
From state subjects to war spoils, Sudan’s history of violence against women is reaching a breaking point, writes Raga Makawi.
Manipur smoulders, Modi looks the other way
Amid escalating ethnic violence, people in India’s northeastern state feel abandoned by the government. Nikita Jain reports.
The Russians that keep resisting
Vladimir Putin is almost certain to win this weekend’s elections, but critics are finding new ways to resist his rule. Alexandra Domenech reports.
SXSW boycott grows in solidarity with Gaza
Graeme Green speaks to the artists backing out of the ‘war machine’ at a major US festival.
Internationalism, the Donald Trump way
A second Trump presidency would bolster dangerous militarism and imperial brinksmanship, writes John Feffer.
Hall of infamy: Keir Starmer
Snakey Starmer sheds his socialist skin to show the cold-hearted Blairite within.
'Strong beyond the world's imagination'
In spite of the overwhelming odds against them, a spirit of feminist resistance exists among Afghanistan’s girls and women. Jen Ross reports.
The betrayal
From arms deals to surveillance tech exchanges, Yara Hawari explains how alliances are fostered between Israel and Arab governments.
Is it time to divest from the business of evangelicalism?
After the revelations about megachurch leader TB Joshua, Rosebell Kagumire reflects on religion, politics and power.
‘Gaza genocide exposes the naked face of imperialism’
Bethany Rielly reports from War on Want’s festival of resistance.