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    Issue 551 September-October 2024

    Election Year: But is the party over?

    With half the world heading to the polls in 2024, our new issue examines the crisis of Establishment politics. Does the rise of independents and smaller parties sound the death-knell for dominant political forces, or will new formations simply re-create the politics of old? 

    From the French far-right to revolutionaries in the Philippines, from Jeremy Corbyn to Bolivia's Movement Towards Socialism, we examine the forces re-shaping party politics, and ask what it will take to build a politics that serves the cause of the people.

    Issue highlights:

    • Independents' Day
    • Fade to black
    • Political instruments
    • Radicalism jettisoned
    • The long resistance

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The long read

The US empire is hidden in plain sight

So-called RAF bases filled with US military personnel are a tell-tale sign of Britain’s key role in US imperialism, writes Matt Kennard.

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Country Profile: Mexico

The cultural legacies of the Aztecs, Mayans, Zapotecs, Toltecs and others survive in modern day Mexico, writes Mattha Busby.

Interactives

Love Locked up

Claude Mangin, the wife of a Sahrawi political prisoner in Morocco, describes how the diplomatic stalemate over Western Sahara continues to tear families apart. Maxine Betteridge-Moes reports.

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India’s heatwaves require urgent climate action

After extreme heatwaves grip the country, Nilanjana Bhowmick advocates for a multi-pronged approach to mitigate the impacts of climate change in India.

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Editors’ pick

Independents' day

The shallowness of the Labour party’s support in the UK points to an existential threat to dominant parties globally, argues Conrad Landin.

From the archive

Taking down the Klamath River dam

A persistent, inspiring campaign to remove dams choking the Klamath River is on the verge of success. From the United States, Bruce Shoemaker recounts what it took to get there.

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