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  • A group of people, some with raised fists or with tape over their mouths, standing behind a banner reading 'Free West Papua' and holding West Papuan flags

    West Papua’s silent genocide

    The brutal occupation of West Papua is under-reported – but UK and US corporations are profiting from the violence, write Eliza Egret and Tom Anderson

  • Presiden of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro putting on a pair of headphones

    Venezuela can solve its own problems – the US only cares about oil

    The people could reach a democratic and non-violent solution if they were freed from US meddling, argues Boaventura de Sousa Santos

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    Essay: The death of international development

    ‘Development’ has failed to deliver. The reason, Jason Hickel argues, is that development organisations have failed to address the structural drivers of poverty

  • Street grafitti in Burkina Faso depicting Thomas Sankara and reading 'Justice for Sankara' in French

    Thomas Sankara: an African leader with a message for Europe

    On the 25th anniversary of Sankara’s assassination, Nick Dearden argues we need to remember him to challenge dominant views of Africa and fight our own debt crisis in Europe

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    US imperialism in Central America

    Grace Livingstone gives an overview of overt and covert US military and intelligence interventions

  • A group of armed men, standing around a truck, celebrating and throwing up victory signs

    Broken Spring?

    Sami Ramadani argues that counter‑revolution has gained the upper hand in Syria and across the Arab world

  • Protestors on top of an army truck holding signs and surrounded by a crowd

    After the spring

    Sami Ramadani considers the response to the Arab Spring from the region’s dictators and other reactionary forces, as well as the role of imperialism

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