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 Illustration: Sarah John

A fine kettle of fish

In her Letter from Manila Iris Gonzales visits Manila’s largest fish port, where the effects of an international dispute are playing out.

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Women dance at a solidarity street party for undocumented migrants in Dublin, Ireland, where the government has just announced a sweeping amnesty. Photo: Brian Lawless/Alamy

Out of the shadows

Luke Butterly reports on a ‘potentially life-changing scheme’ from Ireland.

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Launched in May 2020, the worker-members of ChiFresh Kitchen have been busy throughout the Covid-19 pandemic cooking up healthy, culturally appropriate food for their Chicago community. As well as providing emergency food aid, the co-op – which employs formerly incarcerated people – is also contracted to provide food for schools and social centres and makes several hundred meals a day. Photo: Kai Brown

The democratic workplace

Can employees be in full control of their enterprises? Amy Hall explores the possibilities and tensions of worker co-operatives.

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 Illustration: Sarah John

Vaccine hopes and fears

Iris Gonzales delves into some of the reasons why the vaccine rollout in her country is encountering drag.

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Mixed Media: Books

Mixed Media: Books

Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith; The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter; Silicon Values by Jillian C York; Abolishing the Police edited by Koshka Duff

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Colombia Protests. Illustration: Zach

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Colombia Protests by Zach (Philippines)

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 Illustration: Sarah John

A bloody business

Iris Gonzales reflects on a violent national obsession that has only grown under coronavirus restrictions.

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 Illustration: Sarah John

When we bury the truth

Iris Gonzales reflects on the human cost of the state’s war against its critics.

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A mural featuring a pro-Trump protester, self-styled QAnon ‘shaman’ Jacob Chansley, appeared in Tunbridge Wells, UK, a few days after the storming of the US Congress in Washington on 6 January. Photo: Karwai Tang/Wireimage/Getty

Democracy on the edge

More fragile than we thought, liberal democracy seems to be under attack from many sides. Are these death throes – or growing pains? Vanessa Baird explores.

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 Illustration: Andy Carter

What if…

What if we dealt with our own rubbish instead of sending it abroad, Vanessa Baird suggests.

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Keeping the world cared for

Keeping the world cared for

Three workers tell their stories. Interviews by Iris Gonzales, Audrey Simango, and Jada Steuart.

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Albertina is 15 and the oldest of three sisters. When her mother died she took over responsibility for raising her younger siblings. Now she wants to become a nurse. Photo: Chris de Bode/Panos

The hidden debt of care

Covid-19 has pushed the world’s caregivers to the limit and beyond. Amy Hall explains how their work continues to be undermined and undervalued.

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 Illustration: Pete Reynolds

Death by Covid-19 – or hunger?

The pandemic has left millions of people on the brink of starvation. Hazel Healy asks why our food system is failing the poorest so badly – and offers a glimpse of a more equitable path. With extra reporting by Mohamed Camara.

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Young Rio favela residents, part of the grassroots Marcha das Favelas group, organize mutual aid to make up for the absence of the Brazilian state in tackling the crisis. Photo: Ellan Lustosa / Zuma / Alamy

Lessons from the pandemic

How can we transform the calamity that has befallen us and create healing? Vanessa Baird on the change we can be.

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Forced from home by US airstrikes in the Lower Shabelle region, this girl tries to rest at a camp for internally displaced persons near Mogadishu, Somalia, March 2020. Photo: Feisal Omar/Reuters

Out of sight, out of mind

Husna Rizvi rounds up some of the lesser-known pandemic stories from around the world.

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Search results in a table for: philippines

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A fine kettle of fish

In her Letter from Manila Iris Gonzales visits Manila’s largest fish port, where the effects of an international dispute are playing out.

Iris Gonzales November, 2021 534 Preview
Out of the shadows

Luke Butterly reports on a ‘potentially life-changing scheme’ from Ireland.

Luke Butterly November, 2021 534 Preview
The democratic workplace

Can employees be in full control of their enterprises? Amy Hall explores the possibilities and tensions of worker co-operatives.

Amy Hall November, 2021 534 Preview
Vaccine hopes and fears

Iris Gonzales delves into some of the reasons why the vaccine rollout in her country is encountering drag.

Iris Gonzales September, 2021 533 Preview
Mixed Media: Books

Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith; The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter; Silicon Values by Jillian C York; Abolishing the Police edited by Koshka Duff

July, 2021 532 Preview
Open window

Colombia Protests by Zach (Philippines)

Zach July, 2021 532 Preview
A bloody business

Iris Gonzales reflects on a violent national obsession that has only grown under coronavirus restrictions.

Iris Gonzales July, 2021 532 Preview
When we bury the truth

Iris Gonzales reflects on the human cost of the state’s war against its critics.

Iris Gonzales May, 2021 531 Preview
Democracy on the edge

More fragile than we thought, liberal democracy seems to be under attack from many sides. Are these death throes – or growing pains? Vanessa Baird explores.

Vanessa Baird March, 2021 530 Preview
What if…

What if we dealt with our own rubbish instead of sending it abroad, Vanessa Baird suggests.

November, 2020 528 Preview
Keeping the world cared for

Three workers tell their stories. Interviews by Iris Gonzales, Audrey Simango, and Jada Steuart.

November, 2020 528 Preview
The hidden debt of care

Covid-19 has pushed the world’s caregivers to the limit and beyond. Amy Hall explains how their work continues to be undermined and undervalued.

Amy Hall October, 2020 528 Preview
Death by Covid-19 – or hunger?

The pandemic has left millions of people on the brink of starvation. Hazel Healy asks why our food system is failing the poorest so badly – and offers a glimpse of a more equitable path. With extra reporting by Mohamed Camara.

Hazel Healy and Mohamed Camara September, 2020 527 Preview
Lessons from the pandemic

How can we transform the calamity that has befallen us and create healing? Vanessa Baird on the change we can be.

Vanessa Baird September, 2020 527 Preview
Out of sight, out of mind

Husna Rizvi rounds up some of the lesser-known pandemic stories from around the world.

Husna Rizvi July, 2020 526 Preview