Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent

İştar Gözaydın was a professor of law and politics in Turkey. Until her government decided she was a terrorist. She tells her story.

Turkish writer and analyst Hakki Mahfuz summarize the twists and turns that landed Turkey where it is today.

Mandeep Tiwana sorts through the many cloaks of authoritarianism donned by the political class as repression becomes the rule rather than the exception.

A group of political strategists gathers to brainstorm ways to remove democratic impediments to the plans of their political bosses. Text by Richard Swift, illustration by Jonathan Williams.

Activist Scott Weinstein dances with the terrorist label and finds it a fickle partner.

Grassroots environmentalists are being violently targeted in Latin America. Leny Olivera and Sian Cowman believe there is something we can do about it.

Recent events have thrust Catalonia into the global spotlight. Kevin Buckland tells the background story we don’t get to hear – about co-operatives, ‘fearless cities’ and the real challenges to authoritarian capitalism.

With the Great Barrier Reef and climate targets under threat, Tom Anderson and Eliza Egret explain why this mega mine matters to all of us.

Port Augusta had long been South Australia’s coal-fired powerhouse. But a five-year-long community campaign has delivered solar success and an end to the smokestacks, reports Dan Spencer.

The clock is ticking for peace in Colombia. Next month a ceasefire with the ELN, the last remaining leftwing guerrilla organization in the country, is due to run out. Guerrilla leader Pablo Beltrán of Colombia’s ELN talks to Mónica del Pilar Uribe Marín.

Simple models by India’s ‘science magician’, Arvind Gupta, are making learning fun for young minds around the world. Priti Salian reports from a classroom in Bangalore.

How did West Papuan campaigners build a game-changing 1.8 million-strong petition in the teeth of government repression? Key organizers tell Danny Chivers how it was done and what’s at stake.

Bangladesh is home to almost five million garment workers, making it the second largest manufacturer of garments in the world. Its factory workers make the clothes we wear every day. Meet the humans behind the big clothing brand labels.

To make this culture of sexual harassment a thing of the past requires organizing and mass mobilization, writes Mark Engler.

Chris Coltrane explains.

A highway project threatens indigenous peoples' reserves in Bolivia. Aldo Orellana Lopez reports.

In June 2018, London is hosting an alternative ‘World Football Cup’ of linguistic minorities and unrecognized nations, organized by CONIFA. Alessio Perrone reports.

Doctors and patients are fighting back against new rules to restrict migrants’ access to the NHS, writes Simon Childs.

Angola has its first new president in nearly 40 years, but bringing change might prove difficult as long as the economy remains dependent on diamonds and oil. Richard Swift reports.

Saudi Arabia has lifted its ban on women drivers, but there not everyone agrees it’s a good thing. By Lydia Noon.

Report by Lyndall Stein.

Shell companies are aggravating some of the world’s worst conflicts, writes Steven Shaw.

Refugees in Germany complain about the lack of support by liberal and left-wing activists, writes Morgan Meaker

Two artists have invented a saint to protect residents from gentrification. Yohann Koshy reports.

A breath of fresher air; Hope in sight; Frack off, say Scots.

Praise, blame and all points in between? Your feedback published in the December 2017 magazine.

Bolivians have had to get used to doing without postal services. In her Letter From Cochabamba, Amy Booth writes how they manage instead.

Illustration by Doaa Eladl from Egypt

Cartoon by Simon Kneebone

The West finds much to celebrate about the country, but it has the largest prison population in the Middle East and world’s highest per-capita use of teargas. Zoe Holman reports on the state of Bahrain.

Cartoon by P J Polyp

Cartoon by Marc Roberts

Acclaimed British-Indian musician Nitin Sawhney talks to Subi Shah about colonialism, music as a passport to possibility and why he wants to be known as ‘someone who gives a shit’.

Dolores directed by Peter Bratt; Félicité directed and co-written by Alain Gomis.

Economic Partnership Agreement by Sven Kacirek and Daniel Mburu Muhuni; Syrian Dreams by Maya Youssef.

1947 by Elisabeth Åsbrink; The Death of Homo Economicus by Peter Fleming; Of Women by Shami Chakrabarti; With Ash on Their Faces by Cathy Otten.