A radio signal tower stands behind bullet-riddled houses in Omdurman, Sudan’s second most populous city, on 27 August 2024.Photo: Mudathir Hameed/DPA/Alamy Live News

Revolutionary aid

Once at the forefront of the 2018 revolution, Sudan’s social movements are now providing vital humanitarian aid throughout a devastating civil war. How have they kept their pro-democracy politics alive and adapted to a changing landscape? Eiad Husham reports.

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Svalbard’s green gamble

As Norway’s isolated islands leave coal mining behind, Huw Paige asks if it is realistic for them to become a green exemplar for the Arctic.

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The war isn’t over

After the celebrated fall of the Assad regime, questions remain over Syria’s future. As Turkey increases violence in the country’s Kurdish-majority north, Matt Broomfield reports on people’s hopes and fears.

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A bloody oath, mate

Dario Vacirca examines efforts to prosecute ongoing crimes against Australia’s First Nations.

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Tracker

Alexis Wright gives an epic account of the life and work of a man who took the campaign for Aboriginal rights to the highest levels in her award-winning biography of renowned activist, Tracker Tilmouth.

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Another golden age for gas

State and corporate interests across Northern Australia are steamrolling the rights and aspirations of Indigenous peoples in pursuit of economic largesse, Ben Abbatangelo writes.

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A History of Black Power

Veteran activist, academic and actor Gary Foley talks to Zoe Holman about the past and future of Aboriginal resistance.

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Truth-telling in the Stolen Country

Senator Lidia Thorpe talks to Zoe Holman about power, Treaty and Australia’s identity crisis.

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Timeline

From the First Fleet’s arrival to today’s fight for recognition, we trace the turbulent history of Aboriginal Australians—a journey of dispossession, resistance, and resilience.

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Gunditjmara, Waddawurrung & Arrernte man Jordan Edwards in the state Legislative Council Chamber, Melbourne, during the first sitting of the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria in July 2023.Photo: Tamati Smith/Getty Images

Indigenous Sovereignty in Australia

This is not your land. After the defeat of a 2023 referendum on the inclusion of a First Nations Voice in parliament, Zoe Holman traces the claims to self-determination made by Indigenous peoples in Australia, culminating in today’s rallying call for Treaty.

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Forever Oil

An oil rush is reshaping Guyana’s future, but as profits bypass locals could a familiar history of exploitation, extraction and colonialism be repeating itself? Ben Jacob reports on a nation at a crossroads.

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‘I just want to get out’

Ten years on from the height of Europe’s refugee ‘crisis’, Greece remains a ‘holding pen’ for people on the move trying to start new lives. Charlie Milner reports from Lagadikia camp, where hundreds are stuck in limbo.

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Noori Begum holds a photograph of her husband who disappeared decades ago. Her son looks on in the background.Photo: Farhaan Sayeed Masoodi

They never came home

Thousands of men have gone missing in Kashmir since the 1980s. Tauseef Ahmad and Sajid Raina report on the hardships faced by ‘half widows’ as they live with the uncertainty of their husbands’ disappearance.

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The sun sets over Adre camp in eastern Chad in July 2024. More than 150,000 people who have fled the war in Sudan are living here.Photo: Ivor Prickett/Panos Pictures

Armed to the brink

Eiad Husham reports on how the flow of weapons into Sudan is fuelling violence and the devastation of war.

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One struggle

Joely Thomas explores the role of activists in showing how climate action and demilitarization cannot be separated.

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Eco-friendly fire

Western militaries are taking on a new enemy: climate change. Nico Edwards unpicks the myth of green militarism.

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Partners in power

Israel and India have gone from covert traders to public allies, and arms are part of the special relationship. Mohammad Asif Khan outlines the nexus of power and what people are doing to try and disrupt it.

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As part of the campaign against Raytheon, signs like this were created – a play on ‘Free Derry Corner’ which can be seen in the background.Photo: DAWC

Victory in defiance

Amy Hall explains how a group of determined activists ran one of the world’s biggest arms companies out of town.

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Guns or diplomacy?

As the West’s power wanes in other areas, the arms industry is the perfect vehicle through which to assert itself. Vijay Prashad discusses the trade’s influence on international relations with Amy Hall.

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The arms trade - The Facts

The arms trade - The Facts

State of the industry; Deadly business; At the border; Who’s supplying whom?

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Guns and power January, 2025
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