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Looking the very picture of a traditional way of life, mathematics teacher Phunchok Angmo, photographed at Thiksey monastery, near Leh, Ladakh, is observing startling changes in her pupils. 'The children here no longer care about the culture and they spend less time taling to eachother,' she says. 'They spend their free time on laptops.'

4 Feb 2020 7 minute read

Globalization and extremism – join the dots

Insecure people can be highly susceptible to false narratives purporting to explain their precarious situation, argues ...

Bulu Bari is a regular at the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation complex - but work is scarce.

3 Feb 2020 6 minute read

Dhallywood dreams

Sophie Hemery and Alice McCool on the older women fighting for a place in 'Dhallywood'.

Alex Sager imagines a time when all people are free to move.

29 Jan 2020 7 minute read

Open borders, 2050

Alex Sager imagines a time when all people are free to move.

Firmino, pictured in Rocinha. Credit: Alessio Perrone

24 Jan 2020 5 minute read

A museum for the working class

In Rocinha, the largest favela in Brazil and one of the largest in Latin America, a makeshift museum is painting a proud...

Fifi, with her daughter Mia, bemoans the slow pace of construction. Photos: Tamzin Forster

21 Jan 2020 4 minute read

Barbudans are resisting disaster capitalists

Ever since Hurricane Irma struck in September 2017, residents of Barbuda have been trying to defend themselves against those...

DFID and the UK parliament should – at the very least – insist that investments of the kind the summit is promoting – especially those funded through ODA – are measured against a rigorous ‘development impact’ framework; that they demonstrably tackle poverty, inequality and the climate crisis, and that the money could not be spent better.

18 Jan 2020 4 minute read

For-profit investments are not ‘development’

The British government plans to divert taxpayers’ money into private hands – and away from the world’s poorest, warns Labour...

Police officers detain an activist as they block the road during an Extinction Rebellion demonstration at Bank, in the City of London, Britain October 14, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

15 Jan 2020 4 minute read

How counter-terror police quash dissent

Kevin Blowe on how allegations of extremism are used to discredit social movements in the United Kingdom....

Protesters hold placards and shout slogans during a climate change rally in Sydney, Australia, January 10, 2020. AAP Image/Steven Saphore/via REUTERS

14 Jan 2020 5 minute read

When a ‘climate election’ goes wrong

All is not lost. Danny Chivers offers four movement-building strategies for the years ahead.

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African National Congress (ANC) election posters are seen on street poles in Alexandra township, in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 10, 2019. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

13 Jan 2020 3 minute read

Letter from Johannesburg

Yewande Omotoso moves through the unknowable city, looking and listening.

In the 1960s, Senator Bernie Sanders joined the Young People’s Socialist League, the youth section of the Socialist Party of America.

10 Jan 2020 3 minute read

What if…a socialist became president of the USA?

Richard Swift ponders a pipedream – or a possibility.

Rag pickers collect recyclable material at a garbage dump in New Delhi November 19, 2014. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

8 Jan 2020 3 minute read

Invisible green warriors

Nilanjana Bhowmick heralds India's most overshadowed environmentalists: waste-pickers

About 369,000 people are believed to modern slaves in Brazil - representing 1 in 555 of its population - according to the Global Slavery Index by human rights group Walk Free Foundation.

20 Jan 2020 3 minute read

Modern-day slavery in the Amazon

Rescuing slaves is not the cure, says Leonardo Sakomoto.

Demonstrators attend a protest against a new citizenship law, outside the Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi, India, January 1, 2020. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis

6 Jan 2020 6 minute read

Not Modi’s India any more

Ongoing countrywide protests are rooted in a battle for India’s secular values, argues Nilanjana Bhowmick...

A demonstrator holds a placard during an anti-government rally in Algiers, Algeria December 31, 2019. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina

3 Jan 2020 3 minute read

The failed promise of liberal democracy

Nanjala Nyabola reflects on the ongoing cries of a discontented world.

Fire trucks are seen during a bushfire in Werombi, 50 km southwest of Sydney, Australia, December 6, 2019. AAP Image/Mick Tsikas/via REUTERS

3 Jan 2020 4 minute read

A continent ablaze

The fires currently engulfing much of Australian territory are the product of 30 years’ wilful negligence and greed, argues...

Two people hold placards as part of a demonstration for solidarity, unity, dignity and rights for all in Hamburg

26 Dec 2019 2 minute read

Speak out: Solidarity with people on the move

A network of solidarity exists among and alongside those who move, and stay, without permission. Hazel Healy...

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