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Music
by Moor Mother (ANTI-, CD, DL, LP) moormother.net This isn’t just an album, it’s a history lesson, except the effects of the history at hand – the legacy of Britain’s deep involvement with the slave trade – still very much reverberates. The Great Bai
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Debt The Facts
GLOBAL DEBT IN 2023, OR 336% OF GDP.2 The servicing of debts is absorbing an average of 38% of budget revenue across the Global South.3 PUBLIC DEBT OWED BY GOVERNMENTS AND OTHER PUBLIC BODIES. PRIVATE DEBT OWED BY BUSINESSES, HOUSEHOLDS AND EVERYONE
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Morocco Surf’s Up, Time’s Up.
In January, anonymous officials informed residents of the old town of Tasblast in southern Moroccan that they had 24 hours to pack and leave before their houses were demolished. Established in the 1980s by fishers, Tasblast was later discovered by su
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Northern Ireland More Trouble
In West Belfast, the gates of the ‘peace wall’ dividing the Protestant and Catholic neighbourhoods remain shuttered from dusk until dawn. ‘We now have terrorists in government,’ says a unionist resident, referring to the recently elected Sinn Fein Fi
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Stand Off
A hunger crisis is growing in Zambia. Over six million people are facing severe food shortages and malnutrition, thanks to a serious drought which has destroyed almost half of planted crops.1 The southern African country had already been reeling from
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Mourn And Organize
The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat by Hannah Proctor (Verso, ISBN 9781839766053) versobooks.com ‘Don’t mourn: organize.’ This phrase, attributed to the American labour organizer Joe Hill, who was executed in 1915, sums up much of the Left’s
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Why Subscribe?
Rather than offer a skin-deep glance at complicated global issues, we delve deeper with an in-depth focus on a different theme in each edition. We provide both the background and the solutions to the current state of affairs, from multiple perspectiv
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Where Did The Land Go?
Every time Mike Maruvire looks out across the vast tracts of unutilized farmland along Zimbabwe’s highways, his heart sinks. For the past two years, the 29-year-old has been desperately seeking a piece of land to farm. ‘I could do with just three hec
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Spotlight Dina Chhan
There is an anxiety, a palpable fear amongst women who travel across our planet alone. But traversing Cambodia was a beautiful experience – and all the more so when I stumbled across the work of Dina Chhan, a Phnom Penh-based painter and sculptor who
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Star Ratings
The past two decades have seen a major reduction in inequality. The Gini index was 40.9 in 2021, as compared with 61.6 in 2000. At 94% (Peru 94, UK 99), Bolivia has come a long way in boosting literacy in the past three decades, although literacy is
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Accounts: Katalin Szombati Advertising: Michael York Design: Luciane Pisani Co-editors: Amy Hall, Conrad Landin, Nick Dowson, Bethany Rielly Digital editor: Maxine Betteridge-Moes Contributing editors: Vanessa Baird, Chris Brazier, Jamie Kelsey-Fry,
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Bolivia
A young woman offers a lit cigarette and tells me it will help with the sting of teargas rapidly engulfing us. It is 21 November 2019 and we have raced uphill from Plaza San Francisco in central La Paz, where a funeral march for 10 protesters murdere
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We Banned Billionaires?
At the beginning of 2024 it emerged that the top five richest men in the world had doubled their wealth since 2020.1 If this trend continues, the world could see its first trillionaire within a decade. But while the richest may be getting richer, for
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Taiwan Riot Against The Regime
In a bridge underpass in Taiwan’s capital Taipei, 26-year-old warehouse worker Sustrinso Ino enjoys a rare moment to himself, looking on as punk band Southern Riot take to a makeshift stage. As they begin to play, a mosh pit forms and audience member
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Nigeria Deep Cuts
Mass protests have hit the West African nation of Nigeria over a series of economic reforms introduced by President Bola Tinubu. The reforms, supported by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, include removal of an opaque oil subsidy and de
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Action And Info
acorninternational.org A federation of member-run organizations across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America – many of them campaigning on debt. apmdd.org Regional alliance of peoples’ movements, community organizations, coalitions, N
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Is Gaza A Blueprint For Ecofascism?
The Israeli campaign in Gaza has wrought devastation on an overwhelming scale, not just on the Palestinian people and infrastructure, but on the ecological future of Gaza and southern Israel as well. In response to the environmental catastrophe, Isra
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Online Features
newint.org Manipur smoulders, Modi looks the other way Amid escalating ethnic violence, people in India’s northeastern state feel abandoned by the government. Nikita Jain reports. In Sudan, women’s bodies have long been the battleground From state su
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Southern Exposure
A person with limited capacity in his legs is hit with a water cannon during a protest in the Bolivian capital La Paz in May 2016. Disabled activists travelled over 400 kilometres by wheelchair to call for a monthly 500 bolivianos ($73 at the time) t
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Film
written and directed by Zoljargal Purevdash 96 minutes It’s over 20 years since a Mongolian film has had a UK release. That was The Story of the Weeping Camel, a gentle doc about nomadic herders as settled life and modern communications are beginning
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View From Brazil
Javier Milei was elected, riding the wave of anti-politics rhetoric, by an Argentina tired of inflation, high interest rates and impoverishment. He is not the first, nor will he be the last extremist politician anointed for his ability to sell himsel
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Deadly Boycott
Soon after he was announced as a newly elected member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly on 3 December 2023, videos of Indian politician Balmukund Acharya went viral. In the clips he can be seen asking a police officer, over the phone, to shut dow
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Power In The Union
‘Alone our debts are a burden. Together they make us powerful.’ That’s the key message of the Debt Collective, a US-based debtors’ union, cofounded by Astra Taylor. With its roots in the Occupy movement, Debt Collective has brought together borrowers
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Kyrgyzstan Shut Up
Kyrgyzstan positions itself as a beacon of freedom in Central Asia: in the past, it has been celebrated as a democratic outlier amid authoritarian neighbouring states. Kyrgyzstan’s liberal image, however, no longer reflects its reality. On 14 March,
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Briefly
One of six young Afghan asylum-seekers, imprisoned on charges relating to the 2020 fire that destroyed Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesvos, was found guilty in March by a regional court in a trial widely seen as flouting legal protocols.
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Books
From the Dawn of Civilisation to Independence by Zeinab Badawi (WH Allen, ISBN 9780753560129) penguin.co.uk The 1974 discovery of a 3.2 million-year old fossil skeleton in Ethiopia’s Afar region was global news. Nicknamed ‘the grandmother of humanity
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Reasons To Be Cheerful
The days of unchecked greenwashing of products in Europe are numbered. Under new rules, companies will only be able to slap on ‘eco’, ‘natural’, and ‘carbon neutral’ labels after proving their green credentials through an official certification schem
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Global Ambitions EU Style
In mid-March the first relief ship docked in Gaza, carrying food for a besieged people. The vessel was the Open Arms. It usually rescues people in distress in the central Mediterranean – the world’s deadliest migration route, where volunteer ships ha
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Re: Margaret Forbes’ letter NI 548. 1 As a baby boomer Forbes feels blamed for the state of the planet. But this happens throughout history. The next generation blames the previous generation for whatever has gone wrong. It is up to us ‘baby boomers’
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