Features

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.

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

Action, and further reading on abortion.

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.

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.

Words: Bethany Rielly.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Action, and further reading on climate capitalism.