Columns / Currents

Community constitution; Embargo endorsed; Freedom at last.

Tanzania’s first female president reverses early reforms, tightening authoritarian control ahead of elections. By Obiora Ikoku.

Communist candidate Jeannette Jara energizes Chile’s left with promises of wealth reform and social investment. By Isabella Poderico.

Zohran Mamdani’s insurgent mayoral bid pits a left-populist vision against entrenched centrists and the Republican right. By Richard Swift.

Kashmir’s new rail link raises fears of deeper occupation, resource exploitation and political disenfranchisement. By Mubashir Naik & Irshad Hussain.

Serbia’s student-led anti-corruption movement endures despite state repression and political impasse. By Nikola Teodosić.

Investigation links global brands to forced labour of Uyghur and other minorities across China’s supply chains. By Michael Ackerman.

UK-backed gas scheme in Mozambique faces renewed legal challenge over human rights and climate harms. By Ilham Rawoot.

Not matcha left; Deadly tensions; Unprecedented posting; French exit; No say, no way; The right to die.

US trade uncertainty threatens to wipe out Haiti’s last major source of formal jobs. By Gabriella Jozwiak.

Iran escalates mass expulsions, sending Afghans back to a country many have never known. By Zoe Holman.

Egypt keeps displaced Palestinians in legal limbo, denying them stability and rights. By Rebecca Ruth Gould.

Workers unite; Norway divests; Reclaimed.

Ethiopia and Eritrea reignite rivalry, turning the famine-struck north into a proxy front, by Samuel Getachew.

Twin police shootings expose Canada’s hidden crisis of racialized violence, by Changiz M Varzi.

The Bangladeshi student activist-turned-politician, by Richard Swift.

Finland’s cold-border law chills asylum rights and gives Europe a hard new line, by Bethany Rielly.

Vietnam’s jubilee parades clash with the lingering poisons of war, by Tom Fawthrop.

Starmer courts Trump at the expense of UK rights and digital protections, by Anita Bhadani.

US gun pipeline fuels Haiti’s gangs while Washington looks away, by Steve Shaw.