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Our in-depth analysis of worldwide events, campaigns and movements prioritises writers on the ground, exploring the critical trends shaping left-wing politics around the world.

Our in-depth analysis of worldwide events, campaigns and movements prioritises writers on the ground, exploring the critical trends shaping left-wing politics around the world.

  • Displaced Gazans walking with their backs turned to the camera and carrying their possessions surrounded by rubble and destroyed buildings on either side of the road they are walking on

    Dispatches from Gaza: ceasefire cycles

    As talks of a ceasefire rise and fade from the headlines, Shaimaa Eid speaks to people living in Gaza City – documenting the meaning of ‘truce’ as felt on the ground

  • A photo at a distance of a tailings dam, showing large deposits of mining byproducts with a digger in the centre of the photo

    Anglo American and the greenwashed mineral rush

    The British mining giant paints itself as a ‘climate leader’ but boasts a history of violent extraction. Activists from London Mining Network and We Smell Gas identify a critical target for anti-imperialist solidarity

  • A group of Orthodox Jewish men at a protest, with Palestinian flags in the background, holding a placard reading 'Judaism condemns the State of "Israel" and its attrocities'.

    Key words: Zionism

    Richard Kuper examines what zionism is (and isn’t) and how it works as an explicitly settler colonial project

  • A Nepalese dancer wearing a green mask and colourful costume

    Beyond Pride: gender liberation in the global south

    The language, symbols and identities of Pride are exported globally – and trapped in limited Western ideals. For true liberation, we must look to Indigenous and Asian cultures, argues Sunil Pant

  • UK Foreign Secratary David Lammy (left) shaking hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right)

    Breaking the UK’s complicity in Israel’s genocide

    As long as arms flows and military support continue despite public opposition, the UK remains an active partner in Israel’s genocide, writes Tim Bierley

  • How +972 fights for the truth

    Richard Kuper describes how +972 magazine provides a journalistically brilliant lone Palestinian-Israeli voice in a sea of hostile media

  • A black and white photo showing silhouetted militants holding weapons

    The spiral of violence in Balochistan

    Roshaan Khattak and Thomas Jeffrey Milley examine the causes of the violence between Baloch insurgents and the Pakistani government

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