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War and conflict

  • An old promotional photo for The United Fruit Company featuring a group photographed in one of its plantations in Jamaica

    A short, sordid history of brands and warfare

    Burger King’s foray into recent conflict in Azerbaijan is part of a historical trend of corporations weighing in – and benefitting from – conflict, writes Tommy Hodgson

  • Group of Afghan soldiers with one US soldier explaining something to them

    Drawing a line in Afghanistan

    The legacy of colonialism is still very real along borders arbitrarily drawn by the British and brutally contested to this day, writes Suchitra Vijayan

  • A photo of a group of people taken outside of a Komîngeh, or neighbourhood office

    Rojava’s Everyday Democracy

    Drawing on first-hand experience in Rojava, Ramazan Mendanlioglu explores how radical decentralisation and self-administration look in practice

  • A black and white photo of people protesting against the first Gulf War

    How the first Gulf War shaped the British left

    Thirty years on from the first Gulf War, Evan Smith considers how it exposed the limitations in the British left’s ability to build a mass movement

  • After the ‘Arab Spring’

    Despite the carnage of Syria and Libya and ruinous stalemate of Yemen, the euphoric appeal of the ‘Arab Spring’ continues to feed revolutionary processes across the region, argues Toufic Haddad

  • In a still from the game Call of Duty Modern Warfare, a many holds a large gun up in his sights against a smoky background

    The spoils of playing war

    Video games play a key role in sustaining the global military-industrial complex, writes Marzena Zukowska

  • A young boy sitting amidst rubble in Gaza

    Gaza is a children’s prison

    There are one million children living in Gaza, trapped and under fire, writes Omar Aziz

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