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The Welsh Valleys have been shaped by centuries of extraction, with stark inequality laying the foundation for the rise of the far right today. But there are lessons to be learnt from its rich socialist history, and the solution is also close to home. Maxine Betteridge-Moes, Bethany Rielly and Lydia Godden report.

The city of Kadugli provides a devastating window on how starvation is being weaponized in war. Sophie Neiman and Guy Peterson speak to some of those who have fled the siege and are struggling to survive.

As the state fragments, Lula’s assertions of national sovereignty have exposed the limits of his government’s power, writes Juliano Fiori.

Around the world, workers use the general strike as a strategy to win their demands and tip the balance of power in their favour.

Britain’s rail unions reflect on the legacy of 1926.

Josefina Salomón and Patricio A Cabezas report on the workers resisting Javier Milei’s anti-labour agenda – from occupying factories to bringing the country to a standstill.

Minnesota’s victory over ICE shows how people are reclaiming and redefining the general strike for a new era, says Kim Kelly.

Labour lawyer Franck Magennis talks to Decca Muldowney about the legacy of strike-breaking legislation.

The general strike of 1926 is often told through the voices of those who opposed it. Less known are the rich and diverse experiences of the working-class people who leapt to the defence of striking miners around the country: downing tools, setting up strike commitees and soup kitchens.

As millions of British workers downed tools in 1926, solidarity for the locked-out miners spread across the globe. Edd Mustill explores the forgotten international story that shaped the struggle.

1926; State of the union; Walk out!; Workers under attack.

From 1926 to 2026. A century on, Bethany Rielly and Decca Muldowney examine Britain’s only general strike, a walk out with a scale and impact that remains unprecedented in the country’s history. What can movements learn from it today?

Through ports, militias and business deals, the United Arab Emirates has built an architecture of control stretching across the Red Sea, writes Eiad Husham.

While Caribbean governments have been quiet about US intervention in Venezuela, and the build-up of military activity in the region, activists have been taking a stand, writes Colin Bogle.

Would a separate state improve the lives of Indigenous communities in India? Fabio Lovati reports on the movement that thinks it would.

Kojo Koram places the abduction of Venezuela’s leader within the long history of US drug policy being used against Latin American governments that resist its geopolitical or economic interests.

Is the artistic process in danger? Novelist Rémy Ngamije considers the role of human creativity in a world embracing generative AI.

AI is making warfare even more deadly. Decca Muldowney speaks to Chris Cole of Drone Wars about the risks of weapons that make their own decisions.

Adio-Adet Dinika explores the hidden stories of the workers who prop up artificial ‘intelligence’, and their efforts at organized resistance.

Tech companies are building enormous data centres and reconfiguring energy infrastructure across the US, all to power the burgeoning AI industry. On a road trip, Maia Woluchem and Livia Garofalo trace the impacts of – and resistance to – this development push.