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  • A Palestinian boy on a donkey looks at Israeli military vehicles, during a large scale military training in the northern Jordan Valley, West Bank

    Zionist pogroms and shepherding outposts

    In their latest dispatch from the West Bank, Farah, Calico and Noah report on evolving Israeli tactics for stealing Palestinian land

  • Two men – Raúl Castro, Marco Rubio – in front of a 1962 map, against a red background

    Cuba stands firm

    Cuba continues to show the world an alternative mode of development even in the face of US regime change, argues Helen Yaffe

  • A black and white photograph of Groote Schuur, the country estate of Cecil Rhodes in South Africa

    Cape Fever – review

    Nadia Davids’ gothic tale evokes the suffocation of domestic service as a psychological duel unfolds between madam and maid, writes Fifi Bat-hef

  • A black and white photograph of Andrée Blouin

    My Country: Africa – review

    Andrée Blouin’s autobiography, whilst messy at points, charts a clear history of resistance to colonial oppression, writes Olivia Umuerwa Rutazibwa

  • A montage of b&w photographs of generals and a statue being pulled down

    Iran ’53: The coup that changed the Middle East

    When Iran’s elected prime minister, Mohammed Mossaddegh tried to nationalise oil, Britain and the US helped overthrow him. Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi traces how covert interventions continue to shape the region

  • Three Palestinian children with their backs to the camera watching Israeli military vehicles attempting to intimidate them in the West Bank

    Breaking the sword in occupied Palestine

    In the first dispatch of our series Breaking the Sword, three clandestine organisers working in the West Bank report on settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing

  • Three blood-covered actors in a scene from the movie Sinners

    Sinners sinks its teeth into Irish settler colonialism

    Aisling Walsh celebrates Ryan Coogler’s thriller, which points a rare spotlight on Irish complicity in Indigenous genocide and racist violence

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