In this issue
The Big Story
The connection recession
Loneliness and social isolation have become chronic issues across the world. We must resist attempts to close down meaningful human interaction, writes Husna Ara.
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Remote solidarity
Work from home policies aren’t going anywhere. So, with many workers in the UK feeling the strain of isolation, now is the time to ramp up trade union organizing, writes Eve Livingston.
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Keeping up with the Khans
From rank and file unionist heroes to industrialist lone wolves, Bollywood storytellers and ‘content creators’ have shifted to write out India’s collective spirit. Ishika Saxena questions what this means for how the country’s citizens can be brought together.
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A 101 in lovelessness
Success coaches, pick-up artists, men’s rights activists. Popular influencers are preying on men and boys’ emotional isolation. Daisy Schofield reports on how we might intervene.
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Chosen family
Tooba Syed on how Pakistan’s gender non-conforming community are fighting renewed attacks on their age old existence and customs – through queer kinship.
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‘Being racialized in patriarchal, capitalist settings, that does something to the mind’
Husna Ara speaks to Dr Samara Linton about The Colour of Madness, her co-edited anthology that brings to life the varied experiences of alienation for migrants and people of colour in the UK.
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Currents
Greenwashing aggression in the Caucasus
Legal time travel in Bangladesh
Bugging democracy in Greece
Replenshing forest in Kenya
Finding refuge in London's nature
IMF heaps demands on Pakistan
Introducing...Petr Pavel
Regulars
Letters from Nauta
Stephanie Boyd reports from an Amazonian community fighting to save its language.
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Country Profile: United Arab Emrirates
Southern Exposure
Daniel Beloumou Olomo dazzles as he captures the contenders for Cameroon’s Miss Curvy and Beautiful, taking a break over a game of pool.
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Temperature check
Danny Chivers explores whether the Adani Group’s financial troubles could be good news for the climate.
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The Interview
Indian physicist and food sovereignty activist Vandana Shiva reflects with Amy Hall on a life of following her conscience.
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Hall of Infamy: King Mswati III
Absolute monarchy is a great lark – so long as you’re the King. But the stability Eswatini’s opulent autocrat has promised is starting to look like a mirage.
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Agony Uncle
A reader wonders whether to report a low-paid worker to their boss for dangerous behaviour.
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What if...children led the fight for their rights?
Time to listen to the natural rebels, argues Matt Broomfield.
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Opinion
View from Brazil
Leonardo Sakamoto on Lula’s efforts to give Brazil’s Indigenous Yanomami communities a reprieve.
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View from Africa
As Uganda passes its anti-gay law, Rosebell Kagumire decries the way faltering governments make scapegoats of their most marginalized citizens.
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View from India
Could Rahul Gandhi’s epic march reverse the fortunes of India’s political opposition? Nilanjana Bhowmick deliberates.
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Features
Tough love
As Nicola Sturgeon departs Scotland’s political stage, what kind of legacy does she leave behind? Conrad Landin digs into the Scottish National Party’s past, present and future.
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‘I'm not going to stay quiet’
In Iran rap has become the language of protest, writes Lorraine Mallinder.
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Hope in the water
Magdalena Rojo reports on the Mexico Indigenous communities finally gaining control over their water.
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From the archive: The trans revolution
Vanessa Baird on the liberating potential of transgender rights for us all.
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The Long Read: ‘They are my ancestors’
Hana Pera Aoake on how how an Indigenous-led programme in New Zealand/Aotearoa is returning the stolen remains of ancestors home to their descendents.
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Mixed Media
Spotlight
Senegalese singer- songwriter Baaba Maal speaks to Graeme Green about music making a difference.
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Book Reviews
Bodies Under Siege by Sian Norris; Shalash the Iraqi; Dust Child by Nguyen Phan Que Mai; Siblings by Brigitte Neimann.
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Film Reviews
Harka directed and written by Lucy Nathan; 1976 directed and co-written by Manuela Martelli.
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Music Reviews
Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels by Mayssa Jallad; Les Égarés by Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani.
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