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Three articles selected for you today from New Internationalist magazine.

Trade union conferederation Kilusang Mayo Uno leads the Labour Day demonstration in Manila, 1 May 2015. The organization is part of the National Democratic movement in the Philippines, which includes unions, civil society organizations and political parties organizing against imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism.Photo: Gregorio B Dantes Jr/Pacific Press/Alamy

The long resistance

551 - September, 2024
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Though it now holds elections, the Philippines is still far from a functioning democracy, and remains under the yoke of US neo-imperialism. Agatha Canape profiles the National Democratic movement leading the struggle.

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(clockwise from top left): A billboard in the town of Mikolaiv has a clear message for Russia’s President Putin – ‘Out of Ukraine!’; Lidia Radenko Timifeevna stands in front of the ruins of her house in the village of Nikishyne – one of the first areas of the oblast of Donetsk to be bombed when fighting broke out between pro-Russian and Ukrainian forces in 2015; a traditional singer welcoming Spring at the Slavic pagan holiday of Malenitsa; the Osokorsky metro station in the capital, Kyiv.Photos: Iva Zimova/Panos

Country profile: Ukraine

525 - May, 2020
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The photos, facts and politics of Ukraine

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Britain: a new home for RefuTrees

Britain: a new home for RefuTrees

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NI 494 - Smiley-faced monopolists - July, 2016
494 - July, 2016
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