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THE BIG STORY
From 1926 to 2026: Bethany Rielly and Decca Muldowney unpack the history of Britain’s only general strike, and why it still matters today.
‘The meek shall inherit the earth’: Edd Mustill re-examines the 1926 strike through an international lens.
Voices from the nine days of wonder: Forgotten voices from the 1926 strike
What stands between us and a general strike?: Decca Muldowney talks to labour lawyer Franck Magennis about the restrictions on the right to strike in Britain today.
A general strike by any other name: Kim Kelly examines the Minneapolis shutdown that forced back ICE operations, asking what it means to call it a general strike – and how the tactic is evolving today.
Reclaiming the collective: Argentinian president Javier Milei has launched a wholesale attack on workers. Josefina Salomón and Patricio A Cabezas report on the fight back.
Off the tracks: Britain’s railway unions look back at their role in the 1926 strike, and the lessons for union members today.
Strikes that shook the world: Dispatches from the frontlines of mass strikes.


CURRENTS
Migrant workers in Lebanon face bombardment: Paul Hefel-James
Fallout of Iran war reaches Jordan: Yamuna Matheswaran
Internet apartheid emerges in Iran: Rebecca Ruth Gould
Cyprus says no to Britain’s bases: Futura d’Aprile
Vulture funds sue Ethiopia: Tim Jones
Solidarity flotilla delivers aid to Cuba: Maxine Betteridge-Moes


REGULARS
Letter From: Ramallah: Growing homelessness in the West Bank reflects something deeper than poverty, Mariam Barghouti writes.
Southern Exposure: Pham Văn Ty captures a stunning shot of children leaping into the Lap An lagoon, Vietnam.
Country Profile: Colombia
The Interview: Lisa Mean-Environmental activist Lisa Mean speaks to Magdaléna Rojo about the young people taking on Cambodia’s most powerful.
Temperature Check: Danny Chivers on how cities are saying no to fossil-fuel advertising.
Hall of Infamy: The Board of Peace: Tony Blair is back, doing what he does best: propping up the US’s imperialist ambitions.
Agony Uncle: Who has the right to make political posts on social media? Our Agony Uncle weighs in.
View from India: As climate change bites in the Himalayas, Tarushi Aswani argues that politicians are putting construction above people.
View from Africa: Tech companies need to be held to account for the abusive sexualization of women online, writes Rosebell Kagumire.
View from Brazil: As elections approach, the length of the working week is on the ballot, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

FEATURES
Reza Pahlavi: Legitimacy cannot be televised: The Iranian monarch’s son Reza Pahlavi is not a credible alternative to the Iranian regime, argues Peiman Salehi
Who really runs Brazil?: As a defiant president Lula asserts power in Brazil, Juliano Fiori questions the limits of state power.
Surviving Sudan’s ‘man-made’ famine: Sophie Neiman and Guy Peterson report on how starvation is being used as a weapon in Sudan’s war.
The Long Read: Merthyr rises once again: Why is the far right gaining ground in the South Wales Valleys, once a hub of radical left politics and trade unionism? Maxine Betteridge-Moes, Bethany Rielly and Lydia Godden investigate.

THE BIG STORY
AI and its discontents: Decca Muldowney makes the case for an urgent challenge to AI’s power and the fake images boosting the rhetoric of dictators. To combat it we need a robust media to combat misinformation and its miseries.
’Pennsylvania is perfect’: Maia Woluchem and Livia Garofalo trace the impacts of, and resistance to, the explosion of data centres swallowing up land and resources.
The myth of inevitability: Paula Lacey unpacks the complex web of power, politics and money behind AI hype.
The janitors of the internet: AI is neither artificial nor intelligent, it runs thanks to human labour. Adio-Adet Dinika speaks to the workers who make it function, and refuse to remain invisible.
The kill chain: What are the risks of weapons that make their own decisions? Decca Muldowney speaks to Chris Cole of Drone Wars to find out.
Approaching infinity: Novelist Remy Ngamije reflects on the role of human creativity in a world embracing generative AI.

CURRENTS
Cambodia: Temple under siege
Syria: Kurds Betrayed
The myth of music-fuelled gun violence
Amazigh recognition grows in Morocco
Kast in: Chile prepares for far-right president
Albania: Italy’s migrant centres face resistance
Syria’s long quest for justice
Critical mining industry eyes Ghana

REGULARS
Letter From Ramallah: In her first letter, Mariam Barghouti writes from the occupied West Bank city about a curious new phenomenon.
Cartoon History: Sander Feinberg and Summer McClinton uncover a family history of the Hungarian Resistance.
Southern Exposure: Subhran Karmakar captures the drama surrounding a dive into the water in Kolkota, India.
Country Profile: Senegal
The Interview: Lia Yewen: Indigenous land defender Lia Yewen speaks to Maxine Betteridge-Moes about living under the shadow of Indonesia’s occupation of West Papua.
Temperature Check: While some states take the lead in phasing out fossil fuels, others are playing catch up, writes Danny Chivers.
Hall of Infamy: Stephen Miller: The ice-cold architect behind Trump’s cruellest policies.
Agony Uncle: How much social media is too much for a teenager? Our Agony Uncle advises.
Editorial: Who’s eating at Carney’s table? Not the countries of the Global South, that’s for sure. New Internationalist editors give their take on the redrawing of global power.
View from India: Hijab bans are emblematic of India’s increased anti-Muslim hostility, writes Tarushi Aswani.
View from Africa: Rosebell Kagumire reflects on the politics, hope and scrutiny surrounding the Africa Cup of Nations.
View from Brazil: A wave of femicides prompts questions about government failings and potential strategies of resistance, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

FEATURES
Another failure of the ‘War on Drugs’: After the abduction of Venezuela’s leader by the US government, Kojo Koram reflects on the long and violent history of US drug policy and its use against Latin America.
A claim for the future: Fabio Lovati reports on the movement to form an Indigenous state in India.
The return of petro-imperialism: As the US militarizes the Caribbean, Colin Bogle speaks to the people speaking out, despite the muted response from their governments.
The Long Read: The quiet empire: Eiad Husham traces the UAE’s long game for access to the Red Sea, a strategy built through ports, airports and infrastructure projects, and driven by ambitions to secure maritime power and regional influence.

THE BIG STORY
Flashpoints to fallout: We live in dangerous times, yet governments are dragging us into a new nuclear arms race. It’s not too late to come back from the brink.
To the bunker! : From luxury hideouts to community shelters, is it possible to stay safe from a nuclear war?
Wtf are nuclear weapons?! : How nukes are made: from mining to final detonation.
Open wounds: People in the Algerian Sahara are still suffering the legacy of French nuclear testing, decades on.
Dispatches from the nuclear frontlines: Exploring the serious social and environmental justice associated with the production, testing and maintenance of nuclear weapons and the communities who pay the price.
Thatcher’s secret war on peace: The people who were spied on by the British state for campaigning for peace and nuclear disarmament.
Disarmament dividend: What can we learn from how apartheid South Africa dismantled its nuclear weapons?
Security or death: Security for all is the only way we will rid the world of nuclear weapons.

CURRENTS
Trump’s raids spread fear in Chicago
Cattle-raiding conflict flares up in Uganda
Polish activists take on weapons fair
Kyrgyzstan plans return of death penalty
Hurricane Melissa: No rescue in Haiti
Canada cracks down on land defenders
Introducing: Catherine Connolly
Malaysia rounds up Rohingya refugees
Police attack pro-Biafra protests

REGULARS
Letter from Addis
Southern Exposure: Musuk Nolte captures members of the Peruvian highland village of Patacancha ’planting’ water to combat dry seasons.
Country Profile: Iran
Temperature Check: a series of wins against Big Oil in South Africa.
Agony Uncle: Is there an ethical way to own a pet cat?
What if...The right of return was realized? how millions of displaced Palestinians could finally go home.

COMMENT
Editorial: Is Venezuela a glimpse of the future?
View from Africa
View from India
View from Brazil

FEATURES
The cost of the nickel rush: Indonesia’s nickel-rich Halmahera island has become a victim of the world’s rush for critical minerals.
No strings attached: The cash transfer schemes that promise environmental protection and financial security.
The Long Read: Neocolonialism in Gaza: Palestinian futures are being decided for them yet again as they are dispossessed by the new Trump Plan. When will they be free of repackaged colonialism?

THE BIG STORY
The long war for meaning: Israel’s genocide may have destroyed Gaza’s physical landscape but it cannot extinguish the spirit of a people who have already mastered the art of survival and resistance
Genocide, unmasked: How the language of genocide has run through Zionism from its early leaders to today’s Israeli ministers
Ports of resistance: Italy is a top weapons supplier to Israel – but dockworkers and students are reviving traditions of solidarity to resist complicity
The genesis of Palestinian resistance: Key events in the Palestinian struggle for liberation (illustrated)
Life on the inside: Life and resistance behind bars in Israel’s occupation jails
Between the sword and the neck: Palestinian intellectual Ghassan Kanafani’s vision of the ‘combatant writer’ continues to inspire Palestinian struggle across generations.
From darkness into light: From South Africa to Palestine- the shared struggle against apartheid

CURRENTS
Darfur mountain refuge hit by landslides
Survival kit craze seizes Taiwan
Bolsonaro bagged – but for how long?
Manufactured thirst in South Africa
Moroccan feminist jailed
Argentinian hospital workers fight cuts
Gen-Z protests topple Nepal’s government
Introducing: Zarah Sultana
Zimbabwe’s rebel anthems co-opted by regime
India’s ‘illegal’ immigration raids

REGULARS
Letter from Addis
Southern Exposure: A shot of a miner doing the dirty work of digging the minerals that supply our devices – his face radiant with dignity and dust.
Country Profile: Indonesia
The Interview Scientist and activist Charlie Gardner speaks about why he risks arrest for the climate.
Temperature Check: The latest developments in global climate action
Hall of Infamy: Nayib Bukele El Salvador’s strongman
Agony Uncle: Should a young socialist turn down their inheritance? Our Agony Uncle advises.

COMMENT
View from India: Why India’s vote theft scandal risks undermining the world’s biggest democracy.
Editorial: Show us your shared values
View from Africa: When sexual violence is used against political opponents, it’s the state that should carry the shame
The Conspiracy Zone: Polyp’s satirical cartoon
View from Brazil: Trump’s tariffs are pushing Brazil closer to China

FEATURES
New beginning or a false dawn? The potential for Senegal’s pan-Africanist leaders to make meaningful change
The Long Read: Where is the left? If we want effective left-wing movements we need more physical organizing spaces, and fewer social media spats

THE BIG STORY
A time of monsters　The global far right is on the march. But what is the new far right today? How did we get here? And what can we do about it?
‘No-one can make it alone’　Working-class communities fighting hunger through mutual aid in Argentina.
Orban’s secret weapon The shadowy adviser working behind the scenes to export Orbanism beyond Hungary.
They’re coming for the trade unionists Anti-fascism is rooted in the history of America’s labour movement. Kim Kelly calls for a revival of that tradition to fight Trumpism today.
Love against the mob Interfaith couples fighting for their right to love in the face of far-right extremists.
Snapshots of resistance How culture and conversation can counter hate around the world.
The stories we tell Tech oligarchs are colonizing and feeding off our imaginations. To defeat them we need to reclaim the power of fiction.

CURRENTS
Egypt’s unwanted Palestinian refugees
Deporting Afghans from Iran and Pakistan
Sacking Haiti’s garment workers
Britain’s incendiary investments in Mozambique
Xinjiang’s forced labourers
Sustaining Serbia’s protests
Kashmir: Entrenching occupation
Introducing: Zohran Mamdani
Chile’s leftist boost
An authoritarian turn in Tanzania

REGULARS
Letter from Addis Ababa The grit required and expected of women to make Ethiopia’s most popular dish.
Country Profile: Peru
The Interview British doctor Victoria Rose describes to Subi Shah the horrors of operating on victims of Israel’s relentless bombing of Gaza.
Southern Exposure Anwar Sadat Swaka captures resilience, creativity and humanity at Kibera Fashion Week.
Temperature Check At COP30 Indigenous people want a voice, not a photo op.
What if...We abolished the family? John Duncan imagines a world beyond the confines of the private family unit.
Agony Uncle As an old friend joins a right-wing political party, a reader asks for advice.

COMMENT
View from Africa what’s really behind the US-brokered peace deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Editorial: Where does it end? The British government’s proscription of Palestine Action endangers all our freedoms.
View from India The never-ending plight of Rohingya refugees in India.
View from Brazil After a case of mistaken identity, Leonardo Sakamoto’s experience of technological dystopia serves as a warning to journalists everywhere.

FEATURES
Who should pay for public services? Jason Hickel presents a better argument for taxing the rich.
The Long Read: Kneecap and the war on the Irish language The recent terror charges against the Irish hip-hop group shine a light on centuries of oppression and resistance.

THE BIG STORY
Global Leadership Vetoed: Can the UN step up to face the challenges of the 21st century?
Fork in the road: Is the UN serious about multilateral nuclear disarmament?
Cartoon History: The League of Nations
Fiddling while Gaza burns: Is the UN’s impotence in the Gaza genocide a new development - or a continuation of its history in the region?
‘The smears make me stronger’: Francesca Albanese is now one of the UN’s most famous faces - and one of its biggest critics.
Trading rhetoric: Can the UN play a meaningful role in resolving the Ukraine war?


CURRENTS
Kashmir caught in the crossfire
Can Kolkata’s trams be saved?
Drone attacks Gaza Flotilla
US guns fuel violence in Haiti
UK-US trade deal
Vietnam War: 50 years on
Finland’s migrant pushback
Introducing: Muhammad Nahid Islam
Police brutality in Montreal

REGULARS
Letter from Addis Ababa: A feminist movement is pushing back against street harassment in Addis.
Country Profile: Armenia
Southern Exposure: Garry Lotulung captures residents of Selopamioro, on the island of Java, Indonesia, as they set up their water supply to tide them through a drought.
The Interview: Writer and activist Farrukh Dhondy
Temperature Check: What’s behind Pakistan’s solar surge?
Hall of Infamy - Peter Thiel
Agony Uncle: Are the cops the right call for a mental health crisis intervention?

COMMENT
Comment: As the world changes- the emergence of a new South-South world.
View from India: What Trump’s trade tariffs could mean for India.
View from Africa: Is Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traore too good to be true?
View from Brazil: If Jair Bolsonaro goes to prison he could become a martyr for the far right.

FEATURES
A past denied: Javier Milei’s government is trying to sweep Argentina’s violent history under the rug
Under the eye of occupation: While genocide continues in Gaza, the West Bank is also under assault.
The long read: Britain’s undeclared war on Yemen

THE BIG STORY
Can mining save the world? Critical minerals are supposed to be our way out of climate chaos, but mining them has its costs.

Critical minerals - THE FACTS

Farming yes! Mining no! Why is the government of Peru determined to inflict an unpopular copper mine on the people of the Tambo Valley?

White flamingos and lithium frenzy: As global demand soars, President Gabriel Boric hopes to increase Chile’s lithium wealth.

Congo’s cobalt curse: The DRC’s mineral wealth has meant devastation for so many people, as well as the environment.

Smarter moves: There are more intelligent, less demanding ways to use the world’s metals and minerals for the green transition.

The metals pie
The race for critical raw materials is bad news for people and planet. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

CURRENTS
Balkans: Price hikes spark supermarket boycott
Philippines: Duterte’s day of reckoning
Civilians pay the price of Africa’s drone wars
Myanmar’s digital stranglehold
Turkey ramps up anti-LGBTQI+ crackdown
Covid five years on
USAID cuts hit Ecuador’s migrants
Introducing: Abdul-Malik al-Houthi
Tenants’ victory in Barcelona
Manipur taken under Modi’s control
Reasons to be Cheerful

REGULARS
Letter from Addis Ababa: Maya Misikir walks in the footsteps of archivists putting together the lost pieces of Ethiopia’s vibrant and turbulent history.

Cartoon History: Undercover police officers stole dead children’s identities and deceived women into relationships.

Country Profile: India

Southern Exposure: Piyas Biswas’ shot of cauldrons of bubbling food at one of the world’s largest Islamic gatherings will make your mouth water.

The Interview: South African musician and activist Thandiswa Mazwai discusses her political awakening.

Temperature Check: How climate activists are taking on the far right and telling a better story.

Agony Uncle: I found porn on my boyfriend’s computer - what should I do?

COMMENT
Can African governments step up to fill the void left by drastic US aid cuts?

View from India: The decline of press freedom in India.

View from Africa: the potential impact of a win for intersex rights in Kenya.

View from Brazil: As Brazil prepares to hold the UN climate talks, politicians are uniting to push for more oil drilling.

FEATURES
Above the law: How Nigeria’s justice system is failing, despite successive governments reforms.

A case of conscience: A movement of Christians is standing up for abortion rights in Brazil.

Memories in the walls: The devastating legacy of Britain’s internment camps has shaped Kenya

THE BIG STORY
This is not your land: First Nations claims to self-determination and demands for Treaty throughout Australia’s history
Truth-telling in the stolen country: Senator Lidia Thorpe reflects on her confrontation with King Charles and the distribution of power in settler-colonial Australia
A history of Black Power: Gary Foley’s lifetime of Aboriginal activism and resistance
Another golden age for gas: State and corporate interests are threatening Indigenous land rights across Northern Australia
Tracker: An extract from the Alexis Wright’s newly published book on one of Australia’s foremost Indigenous activists, Tracker Tilmouth

CURRENTS
Big Oil’s exodus from the Niger Delta
Make America healthy again?
Bolivia’s fight for coca decriminalization
Syria: Israel’s troops starving villages
Transgender inclusion at India’s biggest Hindu festival
Egypt’s crackdown on refugees

REGULARS
Letter from Addis Ababa: The rapid transformation of Ethiopia’s capital
Cartoon History: The Suffragettes
Country Profile: Sierra Leone
The Interview: The punitive treatment of climate activist Jacob Pirro caused controversy in Canada
Temperature Check: The international legal cases giving a boost to climate activism
Hall of Infamy: RFK Jr
Agony Uncle: Is there such thing as ethical rentierism? Our Agony Uncle advises the uneasy friend of a would-be small-time landlord

COMMENT
No resistance without Palestine: Having enabled a genocide in office, the US democrats need a reset in opposition
View from India: Women are the missing pat of India’s economic health
View from Africa: Young people will not give up on their challenge to Mozambique’s new president
View from Brazil: With Trump returning to the white house, Lula must learn from his approach to tackling the cost of living

FEATURES
The war isn’t over: Hopes and fears in the Kurdish-majority north of Syria
Svalbard’s green gamble: As they close the door on coal, will Norway’s isolated islands become a green exemplar?
The Long Read: Revolutionary aid: How Sudan’s social movements have kept their pro-democracy politics alive throughout a brutal war

THE BIG STORY
Deadly trade: The arms trade is big, secretive and powerful. But we have the power to dismantle it.

Guns or diplomacy? The arms industry’s influence on global power.

Victory in defiance: How to kick one of the world’s biggest arms companies out of town.

Partners in power: How shared nationalist ideology and a booming arms trade formed a bond between the governments of India and Israel.

Eco-friendly fire: The arms industry’s greenwash.

One struggle: The arms trade is bad for both people and the planet. We need a global vision for demilitarized climate justice.

Armed to the brink: Arms continue to flow into Sudan amidst an acute crisis of violence and devastation.

CURRENTS
COP16 sidelines Indigenous voices
India: locals reclaim beach from tourists
A dispatch from Haiti in crisis
South America let out of HIV drug deal
Israel’s deportation campaign against activists
Kazakhstan’s shrinking lakes
Canada’s crackdown on climate activists
Valencia floods: the Right passes the buck

REGULARS
Letter from Kampala: Reflecting on a nation grappling with the murder of Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei by an ex-partner.

Country Profile: Mauritius the tiny Indian Ocean melting pot.

Cartoon History: Having told the story of Kenya’s Mau Mau anti-colonial rebellion in NI551, ILYA traces the key role of propaganda in this conflict - and examines how history is made.

Southern Exposure: You can almost feel the dust in this arresting photo of a labourer in a Bangladeshi brickfield.

Temperature Check: celebrating the end of UK coal, and exploring what can be learned for the future.

What if... the United States was abolished? Conrad Landin assesses whether breaking up the country would break up the empire.

Agony Uncle: Can stealing ever be right? Our Agony Uncle weighs up the merits of a novel form of ’resistance’ to unethical clothing brands.

COMMENT
View from India: Why AI isn’t working for women.

Sanitizing genocide: Aid appeals that portray Palestinians as victims of a nondescript natural disaster are the final straw for the ailing development sector.

View from Africa: Racism is allowing Black African workers to be left behind in Lebanon.

View from Brazil: X has slunk back to Brazil after Elon Musk’s very public standoff with the law. Other governments could learn from the debacle

FEATURES
They never came home: Kashmir’s ’half widows’ are left in limbo with their spouses disappeared. 

’I just want to get out’: The ongoing ’refugee crisis’ in Greece.

Forever Oil: An oil boom is reshaping Guyana’s future. Tracing the country’s long history of colonial exploitation from Britain’s sugar factory to Exxon’s oil fields.

THE BIG STORY
Entering the Matrix: The digital age has increased the potency and complexity of misinformation. To tackle it, we need a systemic response

Red Letter Day: In 1924 an infamous document brought down Britain’s first Labour governmentit was a forgery. Conrad Landin looks at the ongoing legacy of the Zinoviev letter, an early example of fake news.

Big Whoppers: Our online spaces are rapidly transforming into cesspits of lies. With disinformation campaigns aplenty, Paula Lacey puts four egregious cases under the magnifying glass.

The Philippines Disinformation Machine: the sophisticated networks of digital strategists, paid influencers and young workers fueling the Philippines flourishing disinformation industry.

Dying in the passive voice: Through a powerful series of illustrations, Mona Chalabi exposes how the mainstream media distorts the truth around Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Fact Checkers to the rescue? How effective is fact-checking at tackling disinformation?

CURRENTS
Serbia: The EU’s dirty lithium deal: Autocratic Serbian President is ignoring widespread domestic opposition and push through legislation allowing the controversial lithium extraction to begin.

Iran wages war on VPNs: VPN use has become so prevalent in Iran that it has generated a multi-million dollar market of providers.

Will Zimbabwe ditch the death penalty? Stakes are high for capital punishment in Zimbabwe with a death penalty abolition bill in motion

Tajikistan: Pamiri minority faces silent crisis: President Rahmon has systematically dismantled the power-sharing agreement that ended the country’s civil war in 1997, eroding the autonomy promised to the Pamiris with frequent military offensives.

Military radar station threatens rural Wales: The Pembrokeshire Against Radar Campaign (PARC) cites a range of concerns, including disruption of the landscape, damage to wildlife and tourism industries and potential health risks of living near one of the highest radiation projects ever built on British soil.

Tanzania silences the Maasai: Tanzania’s government is under increasing scrutiny for excluding Maasai pastoralists ahead of November local elections, effectively disenfranchising some 40,000 voters in the country’s north.

King Charles vs Australia’s First Nations: High-ranking officials including King Charles are granted legal immunity while the Attorney General has unchecked power to block genocide cases from proceeding in the country’s courts.

Surrogacy rights for all India: India’s new surrogacy regime discriminates on the basis of gender and marital status, according to a new public interest petition.

COMMENT
Beyond Apartheid: One democratic state for Palestinians and Israelis is the only viable and just solution

View from India: With millions killed by air pollution every year, meaningful action is long overdue

View from Africa: Young people in Uganda are using traditional nude protest to fight their generation’s battles

View from Brazil: As fires rage across Brazil, local candidates squabble over Maduro and Hamas

REGULARS
Letter from Kampala: a memorable visit to a small, relatively isolated, Jewish community in the hilltops of eastern Uganda.

Country Profile: Haiti: The echoes of the 1804 revolution, which saw Haiti overthrow French colonial rule, still resonate with the struggles of its people today

Cartoon History: the Chartists, a 19th-century movement in Britain which inspired rebels
across the globe.

Southern Exposure: Gordwin Odhiambo captures children using a makeshift net for a ball game in Ngong forest, Nairobi.

The Interview: Anoosheh Ashoori speaks to Maxine Betteridge-Moes about how he survived Iran’s notorious Evin prison.

Temperature Check: the push to stop the world’s forests being used for fuel.

Hall of Infamy: Javier Milei: Argentina’s ’anarcho-capitalist’ leader is a dream come true for the rich and powerful.

Agony Uncle: Is it okay to set your ethical lifestyle choices aside to avoid conflict with your grandmother?

FEATURES
Love and Sacrifice: As he turns 80, Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado looks back on his illustrious career

The battle for Biafra’s soul: the growing violence in a region still struggling for independence from Nigeria.

Is the freeze over? why geopolitical tensions over Antarctica could have a wider impact.
Women’s Agency in War: in eastern Congo women and girls face the brunt of violence. Sophie Neiman tells their stories of resilience.

THE BIG STORY
Independents’ Day: Britain’s general election saw the rightwing Conservative’s swept out and a huge majority for Labour. But the shallowness of the victorious party’s support points to an existential threat to dominant parties across the world.

Fade to black: Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National has reached the forefront of French politics without creating a typical mass party.

Political instruments: Bolivia’s Movement Towards Socialism has survived and thrived in spite of coups and internal conflicts.

Radicalism jettisoned: Green parties are booming in the Global North. But can they really enact progressive change? Coll McCail assesses the sorry record of greens in power.

The long resistance: In the face of ongoing US imperial influence, the National Democratic movement in the Philippines has brought its unique analysis to the fightback.

CURRENTS
Ethiopia: Brides to be
Child brides on the rise in Tigray

Russia: Locked up
Russia’s internal war on dissidents

SSpain: Fora turistes
Catalans revolt against tourism

The Gambia: Against FGM
FGM ban upheld in Gambia

India: Minerals and Maoists
Maoist militants under fire in India

Ecuador: In the dock
Ecuador jails anti-mining activists

Australia: Criminal honours
Australian war criminal decorated once again

Gaza: Re-drawing history
Gaza kids keeping culture alive

Rojava: War from above
Drone terror in Kurdistan

COMMENT
An idle witness?
Accused of being a bystander to past genocides, is the United Nations now failing Gaza?

View from India
Nilanjana Bhowmick calls for urgent action on climate change after extreme heatwaves grip the country.

View from Africa
Rosebell Kagumire calls for a rethink on reparations.

View from Brazil
Racism in football is bigger than the game itself.

REGULARS
Letter from Kampala: Sophie Neiman reflects on the rapid erosion of press freedom in Uganda.

Cartoon History: ILYA looks back to when Britain crushed an anti-imperialist rebellion in Kenya.

Country Profile: Mexico

Southern Exposure: A priest waits for a message amongst the rock-hewn churches of Amhara, Ethiopia. Taken by Hilina Abebe.

The Interview: Karen activist Paul Sein Twa discusses revolutionary conservation and political turmoil in Myanmar with Lital Khaikin.

Temperature Check: Could world leaders agree to leave fossil fuels in the ground? Danny Chivers reports on the possibilities.

What If...Cannabis legalization was done in a more just way, asks Amy Hall.

Agony Uncle: In an election is tactical voting the smart choice? Or is it best to follow your heart?

THE BIG STORY
Freeing abortion: Abortion rights are under attack from a from a powerful and global anti-rights movement. How do we counter these threats and move towards a world where abortion is universally accessible, affordable and free from stigma and fear?
Racist roots: The lesser-known racist history of abortion bans in the United States.
Fertile ground: report from Addis Ababa on the US-linked anti-rights groups trying to repeal Ethiopia’s abortion law.
Silencing stigma: Abortion is wrapped in shame and secrecy even where it’s legal. Bethany Reilly talks to the activists and creatives who are using art to bust abortion stigma.
Turning the tide: Argentina’s President Javier Milei is threatening to roll back hard-won abortion rights. Natalie Alcoba reports on the feminist fightback.
Cartoon History: Abortion Clinic Escorts

CURRENTS
Haiti: In the US’ Shadow
Armenia: In limbo: The war in Ukraine continues to politically and economically destabilise Armenia.
Bangladesh: All welcome: A transgender-inclusive mosque in Mymensingh offers a space for worship without discrimination.

Egypt Cracking down: Egyptian activists are facing prison for minor actions in support of Palestine.
Republic of the Congo: Survival International reveals that the UN turns a blind eye to torture, rape and killing of Indigenous people.
Italy: Four activists are acquitted for their work rescuing migrants from the Mediterranean.

COMMENT
View from India: Once a major source of national outcries, has India lost interest in corruption?
View from Africa: As Ghana repeals its ban on FGM, we must redouble efforts to protect women’s autonomy
View from Brazil: The links between crime, police, and politics remain, despite arrests over Marielle Franco’s killing.

REGULARS
Letter from Kampala
Country Profile: Albania

Southern Exposure: Fadi Al-Shami captures the fun of the ’mud festival’ at the Al-Bara’em camp, Syria.
The Interview: Fatima Hassan, the lawyer who took on South Africa’s AIDS denialism - and won.
Temperature Check
A major victim for the ’climate seniors’ in Europe could herald a wave of new lawsuits.
Agony Uncle: What can you do when you disapprove of your friend’s partner?

FEATURES
Quackery or decolonial justice?
India’s nationalist Right have exploited alternative medicine at a risk to public health, reports Yusra Khan.
The long read: Singing in dark times: Plarine’s writers have played a central role in the national liberation struggle.

THE BIG STORY: Debt
Who owes whom? It’s time to shake off the stigma and get organized on debt.

Power in the union: Co-founder of the Debt Collective debtors union Astra Taylor speaks about building collective power to abolish illegitimate debt.

The problem is capitalism: Debt was never the trouble, it’s capitalism and Big Finance that need to be stopped.

Stand off: the deadlock at the centre of the G20 plan for alleviating Global South debt crises.

Held to ransom: from Haiti’s so-called ’independence debt’ to today’s cycle of violence.

CURRENTS
India: How India’s unemployment crisis helps Israel.
Taiwan: Punk rockers smash a migrant regime that has been described as tantamount to ’modern slavery’.
Kyrgyzstan: New legislation forcing NGOs to register as ’foreign representatives’ may be only the beginning of a democratic backslide.
Euthanasia row heats up in Canada: Controversy has forced the government to delay a measure widening access to suicide for people with mental health conditions.
Moroccan village demolished in tourism tide
Argentina: Milei takes aim at Mapuche
ntroducing: Prabowo Subianto: Indonesia’s new president has been embroiled in allegations of brutal human rights abuses.
Myanmar: A new law forces young men and women to fight alongside a military responsible for a litany of war crimes.
Nigeria: Reforms introduced by President Bola Tinubu that have led to hyper-inflation and a severe cost of living crisis have triggered mass protests.

REGULARS
Country profile: Bolivia
Cartoon History: Federico Fernández Cavada The story of a Cuban-born US Civil War commander
The Interview: Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah talks to Bethany Rielly about work in Gaza and attempts to silence him.
Temperature Check: Polls, public pressure and pipelines: a round-up of climate news. 
What if...We banned billionaires? How we could limit and redistribute wealth.
Comment: Is Gaza a blueprint for ecofascism? warning against Israel’s use and abuse of environmentalism.
Views from India, Africa & Brazil

FEATURES
Where did the land go? Black Zimbabweans are still desperately hungry for land, despite Mugabe’s redistribution program.
Deadly boycott: Report on the economic campaign being waged against Muslims in India.
Global ambitions: EU style the human cost of the EU’s series of dodgy deals with dictators.
 

THE BIG STORY: South Africa 30 years later

Africa’s pandora’s box: The ICJ ruling shook the global establishment. In Cape Town and Johannesburg, could it pave the way for justice for Indigenous peoples?

All rise: South Africa’s constitution has allowed social movements to clockup a number of legal victories. But can the law really deliver social and economic justice?

Morbid symptoms: South Africa is losing its status as an upper-middle income developing country. What are the challenges this poses for a young democracy?

The metal that bent: When South Africa’s largest trade union broke with the ruling alliance, left-wingers saw cause for hope, but things soon turned sour.

When the lights go out: The ‘state capture’ of South Africa’s public services has seen billions sequestered by a new boss class as public services collapse.

Fortress nation: Xenophobia is on the rise in South Africa. What are the conditions in which vigilante groups gain ground?

CURRENTS
Israel: Warring Words
Cyprus: Troops Out
Nepal: Tibetans betrayed
Malaysia’s invisible children
Europe: Digital rights now
El Salvador: Gold Rush
Introducing: Guilherme Boulos, Brazil’s heir to President Lula da Silva?

REGULARS
Country profile: Georgia
Cartoon History: Bay of Pigs
Temperature Check: reasons to be hopeful about tackling climate change.
The Interview: Indian author Amitav Ghosh discusses the colonial roots of today’s opioid crisis, with Graeme Green.
Agony Uncle: How can movement veterans share the benefits of their own experience without rubbing other activists up the wrong way?

COMMENT
Melony’s canny game: Italy’s far-right Prime Minister is cultivating international support as she enacts extremism at home.
Views from India, Africa, Brazil

FEATURES
’Strong beyond the world’s imagination’: In the face of Taliban rule, a spirit of feminist resistance lives on in Afghanistan.
The Long Read: The betrayal: the disconnect between public support for Palestine across the Arab region, and the diplomatic ties leaders have made with Israel.
’I will live with the scars for life’: the resurgence of leprosy in Nigeria.

THE BIG STORY: Climate Capitalism
Green face, Old Tricks: A new energy economy has arrived and it’s a bonanza for corporations
The El Dorado of energy: Green colonialism in the Middle East and North Africa
Green Colonialism: THE FACTS
Held to ransom: What happened to Greenland’s government when they said no to mining
‘Some things are priceless’: EU’s policies to secure rare earths and minerals
Transition mining infographic: Demand for green tech minerals vs fossil fuel extraction
Trade colonialism, again: Procuring raw material for the transition
How to end eco-apartheid: Climate capitalism is continuing ecological and social destruction. To change this we must tear down the structures that maintain the status quo

CURRENTS:
West Bank: Settler rampage
Silencing Solidarity: Israel’s domestic crackdown
24 hours in a Gaza Hospital
Energy warfare in Kurdistan
Nomads uprooted: Ladakh’s Changpa nomads threatened by militarization
Introducing: Wab Kinew, Canada’s Manitoba province Fist Nation premier
Cold-hearted no: Australia’s Voice referendum
Saviour or failure? Haiti braces for another foreign intervention

REGULARS:
Country Profile: Uruguay
Cartoon History: The Luddite Rebellions
Southern Exposure: an evocative image of a gambling house in the coca hinterlands of Colombia.
Temperature Check: Are heat pumps the low-impact saviours or a load of hot air?
Agony Uncle: What should I do about racist or sexist family members over the holidays?
What if…We had a right to public transport?

COMMENT:
View from India, Africa, Brazil
Quantitative Easing and its aftermath

FEATURES:
Wood-fired war: how the illegal trade in timber is fueling a long running conflict in Senegal
The Long Read – ‘They want to erase us’ people putting everything on the line to overturn a harsh anti-gay law