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Illustrations show protesters for democracy and human rights holding flags from Algeria, Lebanon, and Palestine

Illustrations show protesters for democracy and human rights holding flags from Algeria, Lebanon, and Palestine

  • A creative mosaic of fragmented images, with colours of Palestine and a woman wearing a keffiyeh visible

    Unions for Gaza

    Palestine is a live issue in the trade union movement, writes Bernard Regan, with eighteen unions are affiliated to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Here’s how they’re taking action – and you can support them

  • 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

  • A person in jeans and a white shirt stands arms outstretched looking over a valley

    In pictures: West Bank lives

    With global attention on Gaza, an already grave situation in the Palestinian West Bank has intensified. A Solidus Collective photographer documents two years of change

  • 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

  • A crowd protesting against the government in Iran, most with their faces covered

    Is a left victory possible in Iran?

    Despite brutal crackdowns against protestors, Iran’s dictatorship is weaker than it has been in decades. Bahram Soroush examines how the left might chart a path to power

  • An art display showing messages from children in Glasgow to Palestine

    Shaking up the sector: an interview with Art Workers for Palestine Scotland

    A coalition of culture industry workers are refusing to let the Scottish Arts sector stay silent on Palestine, an organiser tells Red Pepper

  • Two people with their backs turned to the camera wearing high-vis orange vests with 'legal observer' written on them

    From Scotland to Gaza: solidarity through copwatching

    Police monitoring organisations are exposing Scotland’s repression of Palestine solidarity movements and challenging a ‘supportive’ national self-image, says Betsy Barkas

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