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Irish border: A 'No hard Border' poster is seen below a road sign on the Irish side of the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland near Bridgend on 16 October 2019. REUTERS/Phil Noble

Ireland’s invisible frontier

The threat of Brexit has caused great anxiety about the return of a ‘hard border’ in Ireland. Yet it’s minority communities who have the most to fear, writes Luke Butterly.

Latest issue: January-February 2020

Freedom to move – for everyone

US Israel leaders Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu

The US was always biased in the Middle East. But with Trump, things are getting much worse, Adam Keller explains.

Dejected Labour party members after a disasterous UK General Election

Chris Brazier tries to see beyond the wreckage of the UK’s 2019 election.

Residents hold signs during a protest against Las Bambas mine in Apurimac, where Virginia Pinares also fights

Indigenous human-rights defender Virginia Pinares talks to Vanessa Baird about mining in Peru and why she needs to enter national politics. 

Children hold placards during a global climate change strike rally in Nicosia, Cyprus September 27, 2019. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou

On Human Rights Day, Kamena Dorling reflects on how children are claiming their right to protect the planet’s future.

Extinction rebellion tacticts

Few argue that the mass movement to combat inertia on the climate crisis has a point. But is it going about it the right way? Chay Harwood and Marc Hudson, both environmental campaigners, go head to head.

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