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A Rohingya refugee takes a moment’s pause, shortly after arriving in a makeshift camp at Teknaf, Bangladesh, last September. She is one of over 670,000 people to have fled over the border from Myanmar since August 2017.

31 Mar 2018 7 minute read

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Fleeing Myanmar

Parsa Sanjana Sajid speaks to Rohingya refugees trapped on the Bangladeshi border.

Russian president Vladimir Putin during a meeting with Russia Today’s leadership.

28 Mar 2018 5 minute read

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Banning Russia Today would solve nothing

This will give Putin another excuse for a media crackdown, argues Madeline Roache.

Paraguay

26 Mar 2018 3 minute read

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Paraguay: An unequal land

Paraguay’s land activists are under attack. Toby Hill profiles the...

31 Mar 2018 7 minute read

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How can famines be ended?

To wipe out mass starvation we must engage with the politics that drive it, argues Alex de Waal...

‘Zuma must fall’ protesters with a banner depicting Atul Gupta, implicated in recent scandals. Pic: Discott, CC-BY-SA4.0

1 Feb 2018 4 minute read

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The scandal that was Zuma’s downfall

How corruption in South Africa continues to cost taxpayers billions of rand, by Neil Thompson.

Independence: a 2010 protest outside Gaudi’s La Pedrera in Barcelona after the Spanish Constitutional court struck down Catalonia’s autonomy statute.

29 Jan 2018 3 minute read

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Rajoy’s gamble failed. Now it’s time to negotiate

Brutally quashing the Catalan vote hasn’t stopped the separatists. Marc Almodóvar writes.

Antonythasan Jesuthasan (c) Cindy Sasha

12 Jan 2018 2 minute read

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Antonythasan Jesuthasan: from Tamil Tiger to leading man

Cindy Sasha interviews former Tamil Tiger-turned-actor, Antonythasan Jesuthasan.

Technology is affecting the way people take part in protest.

10 Jan 2018 3 minute read

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The revolution will not be iPhoned

Is digital technology leading us astray, asks Rev Billy.

Former president Lula on his Caravan of Hope tour around Brazil, ahead of this year’s elections.

4 Jan 2018 7 minute read

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Brazil’s rich weaponize law to stop Lula campaign

‘Impossible’ for Lula to get fair trial, say lawyers. Vanessa Baird reports.

Fiji

18 Jan 2018 3 minute read

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Fiji: really a tropical island paradise?

Inclusive rhetoric by Fiji’s PM is belied by police repression, reports Wame Valentine.

Chile elections: Beatriz Sanchez, leader of the insurgent leftwing coalition, Broad Front.

15 Dec 2017 3 minute read

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Chilean politics on a knife edge

Does this presidential run-off mark a new dawn for Chile? Luis Hernán Vargas Faulbaum asks.

Democracy movement NYC Rolling Rebellion advocates for net neutrality in front of the Time Warner offices in New York City, US.

13 Dec 2017 6 minute read

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‘Don’t break the 21st century nervous system’

Net neutrality repeal pulls the plug on our civic life, says Cory Doctorow.

Shrinking political space: the current clampdown on popular rights mirrors a profound malaise with our system of top-down political representation.

1 Dec 2017 5 minute read

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Whose streets? The clampdown on popular rights

Across the world political space is shrinking. Richard Swift explains how and why.

Turkey political prisoners: Turkish riot police crack down on people protesting against the purge of academics, outside Ankara University.

1 Dec 2017 5 minute read

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İştar Gözaydın: from lectern to prison

Academic İştar Gözaydın’s first-hand experiences of the...

Artist Kaya Mar with his satirical portrait Erdoğan, the Turkish Sun King – after France’s absolute monarch Louis XVI.

1 Dec 2017 4 minute read

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How Turkey’s citizens lost their rights

The low-down from Turkish writer and analyst Hakki Mahfuz on the country’s crackdown.

Dissent is viewed as illegitimate. Rule of law matters less than edicts purported to reflect popular opinion

19 Dec 2017 5 minute read

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You will agree: escalating repression

Mandeep Tiwana on how repression becomes the rule.

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