‘Food is love’
Urban growers Dee Woods and Stefanie Swanepoel compare notes across continents with Amy Hall.
Yemen is not starving, Yemen is being starved
While the UN calls for international aid to avert famine in Yemen, the UK slashes its contribution. Sam Perlo-Freeman explains what’s at stake for ordinary Yemenis.
Should prisons be abolished?
Prisons damage people and have always been used by the powerful to control the most marginalized. But can society really do away with incarceration altogether? Kelsey Mohamed and Andrew Neilson go…
Without water, there is no life
Industrial agriculture is drying up the land in Almeria, Spain. Vitalie Duporge speaks to activists and small-scale farmers trying to avert local ecocide.
Adding pain to the pandemic
Nilanjana Bhowmick on the recent legislation steamrolled through parliament that has disadvantaged working people and gripped India’s farmers in protest.
Vaccine equality: who gets it?
Heidi Chow on how to roll out Covid-19 vaccines for all, equitably and at scale.
Zimbabwe’s coup that isn’t a coup
With tanks on the streets and rumours in newspapers, Nhau Mangirazi reports from Zimbabwe.
10 steps towards prison abolition
A world without incarceration and police may seem a long way off, but there are plenty of things we can change on the way. Amy Hall examines some of them.
Slavery beef, anyone?
From slavery to mass deforestation, Leonardo Sakamoto highlights the devastating impact of cattle ranching in Brazil.
Betrayed again
Under the cover of Covid-19, Turkey is hammering the Kurds. Again. Should the world care? Vanessa Baird offers several good reasons why it should.
The road to food sovereignty
Peasants, not industrial agriculture, are the way to feed the world, argue Pat Mooney and Nnimmo Bassey.
Raising voices to stop rape in Bangladesh
The Bangladeshi state is intimidating indigenous human rights defenders. Amy Hall reports.
Is pacifism appropriate for today’s world?
Can pacifism work as a strategy against violence and injustice? Tim Gee and Rahila Gupta tussle it out.
Winners and losers
Vanessa Baird analyses how the Global South is affected by the current trade turmoil – and old patterns of power.
War on coca farmers continues
Inside the deeply-rooted economy of cocaine production and trafficking in Colombia. Bram Ebus reports.
Courage and terror in Myanmar
Lives and livelihoods have been laid down for democracy. The economy is on the brink of collapse. The world must support the people’s quest to end military rule once and for all, writes Preeti Jha.
Is homeschooling socially harmful?
Does being educated at home limit or enrich children’s experiences? Lindsey T Powell and Cheryl Fields-Smith have different opinions.
The UK pursued vaccine nationalism – now it’s paying the price
Having blocked proposals from Global South countries to suspend intellectual property on Covid-19 vaccines, the UK is now on the receiving end of global vaccine politics, writes Nick Dearden.
Why the coup is bad news for Myanmar’s ethnic minorities
Despite significant ongoing problems, life has changed for many minority communities since the military last ruled. Now those gains risk being lost, says Tina Burrett.
Why isn’t the world doing more to help Myanmar?
Since the military coup in Myanmar, the situation continues to worsen. What are the avenues for international intervention and what difference could they really make? Yali Banton-Heath outlines the options.
The Interview: Leila Khaled
Marta Vidal speaks with the Palestinian militant about the role of violence in the struggle for a better world.
