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Discount stores have been in North America for half a century but there’s not a lot to celebrate says Wayne Roberts.

Filed in: Politics Trade United States Work

Peru’s gold rush threatens indigenous communities’ right to water. Roxana Olivera meets one of the faces behind the struggle, Máxima Acuña.

Filed in: Indigenous Peoples Mining Peru Water

Planners turning a deaf ear to local traders ignore the community at their peril says Horatio Morpurgo.

Filed in: Cities England Trade

The current YouTube ban in Bangladesh is symptomatic of a government unwilling to embrace the 21st century, says Shahidul Alam.

Filed in: Bangladesh Technology

Dan Hancox on the skilled young people who, after thirty years of Spanish democracy, are finding their options increasingly limited.

Filed in: Economics Spain Work Youth

The discontent voiced at last week’s general strike is being echoed across Europe, say Tim Baster and Isabelle Merminod.

Filed in: Economics Greece

City gardeners and construction developers may be strange bed-fellows – but it’s a promising union, writes Wayne Roberts.

Filed in: Cities Sustainability

Legal outcomes could ‘open the floodgates’ for companies to challenge generic drug production, keeping prices high, explains Nick Harvey.

Filed in: Health India Law Medicine

If you thought the global Occupy movement skipped over sub-Saharan Africa, you’d be wrong, as Joe Hani explains.

In direct response to increasing censorship, creative acts of resistance are springing up in Lebanon, says Giedre Steikunaite.

Filed in: Culture Lebanon

Amy Hall meets Filipino campaigner Lidy Nacpil, who shares her thoughts on floods, solidarity and ramming home the climate-change message.

Filed in: Climate Change Debt Philippines