In an explosive interview to New Internationalist, the Kurdish female leader Bese Hozat opens up about peace, the party’s view on the region and the independence referendum in South Kurdistan, and accuses Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the West to have incubated Isis. By Karlos Zurutuza.

Emboldened by a recent study, The Guardian repeats the myth that becoming vegan is the ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth. Chris Saltmarsh and Harpreet Kaur Paul disagree.

The backlash against social media titans is in full swing. But are moves to bring them to heel, including new privacy laws, appropriate? Mike Morel investigates.

After decades of denuding privatization policies, the green shoots of a public takeback are finally appearing. Dinyar Godrej on the promise and the threat.

The Right has captured education all over the world. Hazel Healy makes the case for how to do things differently.

With house prices and rents soaring, can there be a remedy to homelessness? Wayne Ellwood investigates.

Chris Brazier returns to the village in Burkina Faso that he has visited every 10 years since helping to make a film there in 1985.

Jo Lateu considers the state of the unions, and argues that a revival has already begun.

And will Sierra Leone be ready, should the virus return? Hazel Healy travelled there to find out.

After five years of resistance, Indonesia began the construction of an international airport set to destroy the sand-dune ecosystem and houses of residents already forced out of the area, writes Pramilla Deva

Report by Lyndall Stein.

SIM cards loaded with cash handed out across the country have been credited with staving off a Somali famine after warnings of an impending crisis in February. Roshni Majumdar reports.

The Beast, directed and written by Michael Pearce; The Wound (Inxeba), directed and co-written by John Trengove.

The Incendiaries; Betraying Big Brother; A Radical History of the World; Rupture.

(aka Radwan Ghazi Moumneh) Words by Louise Gray, photograph by Melanie Marsman.

Letter from Marabá: Anxiety, perplexity and indignation over Brazil’s political process as news of former president Lula’s sentencing breaks. Dan Baron Cohen listens to how it goes down in Cabelo Seco.

The untiring campaigner and guardian of the deep, Claire Nouvian, speaks with Veronique Mistiaen about the transformative experience that led to her choosing her path – on to eventual victory.

The chocolate king of the Ukraine.

A snapshot of progress, setbacks and future prospects

The West finds much to celebrate about the country, but it has the largest prison population in the Middle East and world’s highest per-capita use of teargas. Zoe Holman reports on the state of Bahrain.

Cartoon by Marc Roberts.