Former dictators Hugo Banzer Suarez of Bolivia and Augusto Pinochet of Chile raise a salute on 8 February in the border town of Charaña. In 1971 Suarez came to power via a coup that overthrew president Juan José Torres who was later killed as part of Operation Condor.Photo: Reuters/Lucio Flores

The usual suspects

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

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16 million and counting - the collateral damage of capital

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.

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Fifteen-year-old Wakeel, displaced by the floods in Pakistan, prepares a makeshift shelter at a camp in Sehwan, 30 September 2022.Photo: Akhtar Soomro/REUTERS/Alamy

Pushing against the perfect storm

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.

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Activists from the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH) hold up signs – ‘500,000 foreclosures’, ‘Organized Citizens’ – at a protest in Barcelona, May 2014.Photo: Matthias Oesterle/Alamy

Debtors unite

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

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A farmer stands by signs, with photos of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others pasted onto the bodies of a variety of creatures, during protests in January 2021.Photo: Im_Rohitbhakar/Shutterstock

The farmers rise

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

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On borrowed rice

On borrowed rice

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

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Illustration: Simon Kneebone

Wealth safari

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

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Women sift stones for building material at the abandoned slagheap of the Chinese-owned Luanshya Copper Mine, in Kitwe, Zambia.Photo: Joerg Boethling/Alamy

Structural adjustment 2.0

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.

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A woman shouts slogan against the Bolivian government during a demonstration against increases to water rates in Cochabamba, April 2000.Photo: David Mercado/Reuters

De-privatizing the rain

How Bolivians beat a corporate water grab.

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Cost of living - The Facts

Cost of living - The Facts

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

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Action & info

Action & info

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

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Protestors in Panama City in July 2022 demand the government puts a ceiling on the price of fuel, food and medicines.Photo: Erick Marciscano/Reuters/Alamy

Whodunnit?

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.

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Top left: Forty years after the original Greenham Women’s Peace Camp was established, activists marched to the site ahead of the anniversary celebrations in September 2021. Commemorations also took place at Faslane this year, where a peace camp was established in 1982 and has continued to this day. Top right: the sign marking the entrance to the camp; Bottom right: an activist uses a stencil to mark slogans on a nearby road; Bottom left: activists participate in a ‘die-in’.Photos: Top left Maggie Sully/Alamy, all others Denise Laura Baker

Hear us roar

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.

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Lithuanian border guards detain migrants at the roadside in Kalviai, close to the border with Belarus, July 2021.Photo: Janis Laizans/Reuters/Alamy

Pushed back and pushed on

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.

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Journalist Hopewell Chin'ono waves to journalists as he enters a prison truck after his first bail hearing at Harare Magistrates’ court, 22 July 2020. He was arrested because he had called for a demonstration against corruption.Photo: Angela Jimu/Majority World

Muzzling the media in Zimbabwe

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

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The property of Mukuru Kwa Njenga residents is strewn across the ground after evictions to make way for the Nairobi Expressway, 17 November 2021.Photo: Donwilson Odhiamb/Sopa Images/Sipa USA/Alamy

Roads for the rich, tents for the poor

Kenyan social justice activist Anami Daudi Toure speaks to Amy Hall about how he and his neighbours in Nairobi’s Mukuru kwa Njenga settlement are picking up the pieces after violent mass evictions.

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TIAA member Nancy Romer takes part in a protest outside the company’s headquarters in 2017. ‘TIAA has become a leader in in greenwashing investments that are harmful to the climate and communities, their land deals have exacerbated human rights violations, contributed to environmental destruction and enabled unethical or illegal business practices,’ Doug Hertzler, a senior policy analyst for ActionAid USA, told New Internationalist. ‘We are building on this momentum to continue pushing TIAA to stop buying up farmland and repair the damage they have caused.’Photo: Brandon Wu/ActionAid

Nice little earner

What connects the retirement savings of US teachers with inflating land and food prices in Brazil? Maria Luisa Mendonça and Daniela Stefan explain.

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Around 700 families were evicted from the Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam, India in November 2017, following an order of the Guwahati High Court.Photo: Zuma Press/Alamy

For whose protection?

A target to turn 30 per cent of the world’s land into protected areas for nature by 2030 is set to be agreed by world leaders in December. But not everyone is happy about it, as Amy Hall reports.

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Image created by Julie Flett for We Sang You Home by Richard Van Camp, published by Orca Book Publishers.Illustration: Julie Flett

Land back

For generations, Indigenous-led actions have been pushing for the return of traditional lands across the US and Canada. Riley Yesno explores how that spirit has been turned into a movement – embodied in schemes to redistribute wealth from non-Indigenous hands.

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