‘If I Must Die’, by Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, is seen emblazoned on a series of kites at a demo in London, a few days after he was killed in December.Photo: Eleventh Hour/Alamy

Singing in dark times

Palestine’s poets, novelists, musicians and journalists have not only voiced their people’s liberation struggle but also driven it. Decca Muldowney charts their role in resisting annihilation and imagining a free Palestine

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Action & Info

Action & Info

Action, and further reading on abortion.

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A woman holds a carboard cutout of RU-486 (Mifepristone), one of two pills typically used to induce a medication abortion, in support of abortion rights at a protest in Rome Italy on 22 April 2024. Abortion pills have transformed abortion access and safety around the world.Photo: Reuters/Yara Nardi

Abortion to revolution

Activists in countries where abortion is heavily restricted are providing pills, information and support to help people end unwanted pregnancies outside of medical settings and on the margins of the law. These networks have evolved into a transnational feminist movement for self-managed abortion and are paving the way for liberation, writes Naomi Braine.

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Activists for legal abortion, donning the green handkerchief, a symbol for abortion rights,  protest in Buenos Aires in 2018. Two years later, Argentine lawmakers legalized abortion on demand during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.Photo: Damian Basante/Shutterstock

Turning the tide

As Argentina’s far-right President Javier Milei hovers a chainsaw over abortion rights, feminists are mobilizing to defend the landmark 2020 law. Natalie Alcoba reports.

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NI 550 - Abortion - July, 2024
A girl holds a candle during a ceremony for Orthodox Easter in Addis Ababa on May 5, 2024. While Ethiopia is considered a regional leader on abortion provision in East Africa, strong religious views in the country often clash with abortion rights.Photo: Amanuel Sileshi

Fertile ground

Anti-abortion campaigners have their sights set on Ethiopia – a progressive outlier in a region marred by restrictions. Who’s behind the emboldened ‘pro-life’ movement and what’s at stake for women’s rights amid a myriad of other challenges? Bethany Rielly, Maxine Betteridge-Moes and Maya Misikir report from Addis Ababa.

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Abortion - The Facts

Abortion - The Facts

Laws and Policies; Maternal Mortality; Policing Pregnancy; Everyday Abortions; The Opposition.

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NI 550 - Abortion - July, 2024
An African American midwife carries her medical kit down a dirt road in Georgia, US, in 1941. In the mid-1800s, white physicians campaigned to ban abortion as a means to demonize and restrict their competitors, namely midwives.Photo: Jack Delano/Shutterstock

Racist roots

Renee Bracey Sherman and Regina Mahone trace the secret history of abortion bans in the US and link the legacies of reproductive oppression and racial injustice.

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A woman plays the cello amid riot police at a demonstration for safe and legal abortion to mark International Safe Abortion Day in Mexico City, on 28 September 2023. Earlier that month Mexico's Supreme Court decriminalized the procedure.Photo: Raquel Cunya/Reuters

Freeing abortion

The global trend towards liberalizing abortion is being overshadowed by a newly emboldened anti-rights movement that wants to erode bodily autonomy. Bethany Rielly learns how feminist movements are organizing to put abortion back in the hands of the people – and keep it there.

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NI 550 - Abortion - July, 2024
A young man reveals wounds he says were inflicted by Greek police after he tried to enter Europe from Turkey via the Evros River. Thousands of refugees have been systematically assaulted by Greek forces since the EU struck a migration pact with Turkey in 2016. Despite failing to stop crossings, that agreement has been baked into EU foreign policy.Photo: Belal Khaled/Alamy Noamgalai/Shutterstock

Global ambitions EU style

As the ink dries on the latest migrant deal with Egypt, Nathan Akehurst examines the fallout of the bloc’s callous foreign policies.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
Residents of New Delhi’s Northwest Jahangirpuri neighbourhood watch a demolition, in April 2022, following recent communal violence.Photo: Amarjeet Kumar Singh/Zuma Press Inc/Alamy

Deadly boycott

As anti-Muslim hatred in India is stoked by nationalist politics, Kamran Yousuf and Durdana Bhat report on the economic campaign which has led to the devastation of lives and livelihoods.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
A storm brews behind a dilapidated building in Manicaland. Zimbabwe.Photo: Robin Hammond/Panos Pictures

Where did the land go?

Despite Robert Mugabe’s redistribution programme, Zimbabweans are still desperately short of land, with cronyism and political corruption not helping matters as Cyril Zenda reports.

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Amidst intense violence in the city, a child watches from an opening in a security gate in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 9 March 2024.Photo: Odelyn Joseph/AP Photo/Alamy

Held to ransom

Haiti’s so-called ‘independence debt’ helped lay the ground for the crisis in the country today. Harold Isaac reports.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
Debt is a feminist issue

Debt is a feminist issue

5 reasons why debt is a feminist issue. Words by Amy Hall

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
Eva, a farmer in Tema, Ghana spreads locally produced fertilizer in July 2022. Some farmers have reportedly switched to this method due to fertilizer shortages and rising prices.Photo: Sven Torfinn/Panos Pictures

Stand off

When Covid-19 plunged many countries further into debt crises, the G20 came up with a plan that was supposed to help alleviate the debt burden. Four years later, not one country has reached a deal. Amy Hall explores why.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
Photo: Lorenzo Rossi/Alamy Stock Photo

The problem is capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis explores how we can transform debt from ball and chain to an enabler of shared prosperity.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
Debt - The Facts

Debt - The Facts

Know your debt; Twin powers; Where the money flows; Household debt.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
 Student debtors blow air horns outside the US Department of Education in Washington DC on 4 April 2022, joining the Debt Collective’s call to President Joe Biden to abolish student loan debt.Photo: Alejandro Alvarez/SIPA USA/Alamy

Power in the union

How can we build our power to abolish illegitimate debt? Astra Taylor speaks to Amy Hall about founding Debt Collective, a US-based union for debtors.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
Action & Info

Action & Info

Action, and further reading on climate capitalism.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
Drop the Debt: Protesters call for debt cancellation, wearing face masks of Yoshiro Mori, the then prime minister of Japan. They gathered outside Downing Street, London, during Mori’s meeting with Britain’s leader Tony Blair on 3 May 2000.Photo: Jonathan Evans/Reuters

Who owes whom?

Rising costs, Covid-19 and austerity have pushed too many countries – and households – into unmanageable debt. Amy Hall asks how we got here, and finds a movement shaking off the stigma of debt and getting organized.

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