Features

Fungi have been touted as an alternative to plastics – but it’s dangerous to see them solely as a product, argues Emma McKeever.

The pandemic years were the pivot for a rapid shift bringing a better new world into being. Andrew Simms travels through time.

We don’t just need solutions – we need the courage to imagine they will succeed. Conrad Landin makes the case for collective action to secure a just future.

A former child soldier in the ferocious Lord’s Resistance Army has been on trial for war crimes in Uganda for 13 years. Meanwhile thousands of other fighters have been welcomed home under amnesty legislation. Sophie Neiman visits Gulu to find out how this contentious case is failing the LRA’s victims.

Those seeking justice for the survivors and victims of Bolivia’s dictatorships are still being stonewalled. Thomas Graham reports.

Over the past 50 years, powerful states and corporations have imposed neoliberal policies around the world, delivering a potent cocktail of privatization, deregulation and cuts to public services. Millions have died from inadequate access to basic nutrition. There is another way, write Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel.

Climate disasters and fossil fuel dependency are ramping up the cost of living crisis. Marianne Brooker looks at the solutions that are there for the making.

Spain’s human shields against evictions, by Luke Stobart.

Words by Nick Dowson.

The mass protests of 2020-21 in India showed the world what solidarity in action can look like.

Price hikes are leaving many in Sierra Leone unable to even afford food. Alessio Perrone reports.

Boom time for billionaires and the super-rich, by Vanessa Baird.

As the International Monetary Fund keeps pushing austerity, Zambian journalist Zanji Valerie Sinkala explores whether that’s really a solution to her country’s economic woes.

How Bolivians beat a corporate water grab.

Inflation, poverty and hunger, debt, profit and inequality.

Initiatives, action, and further reading on the cost of living.

As the cost of living crisis becomes entrenched, Nick Dowson examines the scene of the crime, tracks down the culprits and proposes a route to resolution.

It’s 40 years since the establishment of peace camps at the British atomic weapons bases of Greenham Common and Faslane. Speaking to the women at the centre of four decades of resistance, Denise Laura Baker asks what keeps them going.

The treatment meted out to asylum-seekers in Lithuania has hardened since Belarus opened up a migration channel into the country. Severia Bel speaks to people trapped in the political crossfire.

With the country heading towards a general election, the clampdown on press freedom is an attack on democracy itself. Busani Bafana reports from Bulawayo.