Democracy
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The return of the rotten borough?
Andy Brain reports on English councils’ accountability problem: candidates ‘elected’ without a vote being cast
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What happened to Local TV?
Local TV promised to platform grassroots politics and marginal voices, but weak regulation saw the sector thin out. Andy Brain surveys the survivors and asks: can communities reclaim the airways?
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Your Party, our roots
Away from the Your Party inaugural conference, its seeds are growing into roots across the UK. John Stephens reports on the branch members forging their own paths to action
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Sahel: broken promises and empty anti-imperialism
The junta regimes of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger present themselves as revolutionary and anti-imperialist. Their hollow rhetoric masks authoritarianism and new forms of foreign influence, argues Joshua Shangobiyi
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No MAS: the Bolivian left faces up to defeat
Infighting over centralised power, corruption and economic crisis has led to defeat for a once-inspiring Indigenous leader and social movement party. Linda Farthing and Benjamin Swift report
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We need a new electoral system to defeat the far right
A campaign for constitutional reform is an urgent priority for the UK, argues Mark Corner. Without it, the rising right will exploit our undemocratic politics to impose its extreme agenda
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Cymunedoli: The glue that binds
Economic power in the community – cymunedoli – is the antidote to the far right’s growing appeal in Cymru, write Beth Winter and Leanne Wood