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February 2022

  • Black and white photo of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser waiving to a crowd in Mansoura, 1960

    Egypt at 100 Years of Independence

    Heba Taha explores the drastic political transformations of the Egyptian state 100 years since independence

  • Protestors in Chicago hold up banner calling for world leaders to stop bombing civilians

    Ukraine and the Cold War that didn’t end

    Hilary Wainwright explores the history of the military industrial complex and how we can build an international peace movement in the face of the current crisis

  • In a snowy scene, a person in a holly hats holds up signs in Chinese writing

    Fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in China

    Qiuyan Chen sued the Chinese ministry of education over homophobic textbooks. She writes about her battle for LGBTQ+ rights in China and the UK

  • UCU strike posters show a raised pink fist

    Education for an alternative

    Daniel Eales argues that UCU strikes not only highlight current problems in higher education, but also offer alternatives to them

  • A map on which the countries marked in red have enforced compulsory voting. By SPQRobin (licensed under Creative Commons)

    Compulsory voting: the debate

    Judith Brett outlines Australia’s experience with – and makes the case for – compulsory voting, whilst Daniel Chavez shows how, for the left in Uruguay, compulsory voting is an essential foundation on which more direct forms of democracy have been built

  • A woman holding a photo of a camp used by China to detain Uyghur prisoners

    The war on the Uyghurs

    Moazzam Begg joins the dots between his own experience of the ‘war on terror’ and the repression of the Uyghur people at the hands of the Chinese state

  • Protesters wave the Mapuche flag on the streets of Chile

    Can Boric’s government end Chile’s Mapuche conflict?

    The president-elect’s new cabinet lacks indigenous representation. Will his government also ignore Mapuche demands? Carole Concha Bell reports

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