Spectators observe a F-15E Strike Eagle warplane at RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, which has hosted US forces since 1949.Photo: Jetphotos/Alamy

The empire never died

So-called RAF bases filled with US military personnel are a tell-tale sign of Britain’s key role in US imperialism – not simply as a willing agent, but as a compliant subject. By Matt Kennard.

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The Marañón is the principal source of the Amazon River.Photo: Bernard Golden/Alamy

The flow of justice

In Peru, a group of Indigenous women living in isolated communities have been determined in fighting for the rights of their river, including winning a ground-breaking lawsuit. Stephanie Boyd reports.

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NI 551 - Election year - September, 2024
An Israeli soldier prevents a photojournalist from taking pictures at a protest in Qalqilya, West Bank, Palestine on 11 August 2022. Photographer Victor Cabo says: ‘With no active riots, soldiers were firing tear gas at demonstrators and journalists to cordon off the area and set up a temporary checkpoint.’ Work has become more difficult for journalists in the West Bank as well as Gaza.Photo: Victor Cabo Baro

Working under fire

Attacks on journalists and press freedom are intensifying around the world. These snapshots from Slovakia, Nigeria, Fiji, Palestine and Kashmir take a closer look at media workers’ struggles and successes during this period of heightened hostility against journalism.

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Trade union conferederation Kilusang Mayo Uno leads the Labour Day demonstration in Manila, 1 May 2015. The organization is part of the National Democratic movement in the Philippines, which includes unions, civil society organizations and political parties organizing against imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism.Photo: Gregorio B Dantes Jr/Pacific Press/Alamy

The long resistance

Though it now holds elections, the Philippines is still far from a functioning democracy, and remains under the yoke of US neo-imperialism. Agatha Canape profiles the National Democratic movement leading the struggle.

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The village of Lüzerath, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, was demolished to allow the expansion of a nearby lignite (brown coal) mine. Green politicians supported the move. Here police officers protect a demolition site in the village from environmental protesters.Photo: Roberto Pfiel/Alamy

Radicalism jettisoned

Amid a widening consciousness of climate change and the decline of traditional social democratic parties, green politics has grown across the Global North. But can green parties really deliver progressive change? By Coll McCail.

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A mural in Potosi, Bolivia featuring Evo Morales, pictured in 2011. Morales led the leftwing Movement Towards Socialism to victory in 2006, and the party has dominated Bolivia's politics ever since.Photo: De Visu/Shutterstock

Political instruments

The Movement Towards Socialism has proved an enduring force in Bolivian politics, in spite of multiple setbacks. Olivia Arigho Stiles traces its history.

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Political parties - The Facts

Political parties - The Facts

Membership, election year, and party types around the world.

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Marine Le Pen at Rassemblement National HQ in Paris, awaiting the results of the second round of France’s 2024 legislative elections.Photo: Le Pictorium/Alamy

Fade to black

With the fading of the historic centre-left and centre-right parties, and mass working-class abstention, Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National has built its vote without recreating a typical mass party. By David Broder.

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From left: Leanne Mohamad, who narrowly missed out on unseating senior Labour politician Wes Streeting in Ilford North; Jeremy Corbyn; Andrew Feinstein, New Internationalist contributor and former South African MP who challenged Keir Starmer; and Iqbal Mohamed, who defeated Labour in Dewsbury and Batley.Photo: Zuma Press/Alamy

Political parties Independents’ day

Britain’s general election saw the rightwing Conservatives swept out – and a huge majority for Labour. But the shallowness of the victorious party’s support points to an existential threat to dominant parties across the world, argues Conrad Landin.

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‘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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NI 550 - Abortion - July, 2024
Action & Info

Action & Info

Action, and further reading on abortion.

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NI 550 - Abortion - July, 2024
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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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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