- — Women: a permanent revolution
- From Chile to Iran, and Hollywood studios to courtrooms in Avignon, women around the world are rising up. However the feminist wave breaks very differently in different political contexts, and its gains are rolled back wherever the far right is on the rise. After struggles for the right to vote and reproductive choice, the #MeToo movement took the war to another front. The quest for sexual equality and bodily autonomy aims to end male domination. But while ending violence is necessary if (…) - 2025/02 / Dossier
- — The bloody rebirth of Bangladesh
- Sheikh Hasina's narrative of progress masked a different reality, one of inequality, corruption and state violence. Now she's been ousted, can Bangladesh avoid chaos and a return to authoritarianism? - 2024/10 / article
- — The effects of a communications revolution
- Today, forms of mass communication, especially telecommunication, are developing and perfecting themselves at a pace that is difficult to imagine — faster, perhaps, than any other technical sector. - 1965/05 / article, Exclusive, Classic texts
- — Eisenhüttenstadt: the districts of a socialist town
- Sources Openstreetmap; www.eisenhuettenstadt.de /Stadt-Verwaltung; Petra Pudemat, Nationalatlas Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Institut für Länderkunde, Leipzig, 2002 - Europe / Map, 2025/02 Eisenhüttenstadt
- — Untold stories of Algeria's independence struggle
- Messali Hadj has a strong claim to be the father of Algerian nationalism, but he was never welcomed back to his homeland after independence, and memory of his movement has long been suppressed. - 2025/02 / article
- — Fair pay for women
- French workers are still fighting to close the enduring gender pay gap. - 2025/02 / article
- — The bicycle industry's dirty secret
- Cycling may be green but Taiwan, the global centre of bicycle manufacturing, has built an industry on migrant labour and dodgy employment practices. - 2025/02 / article
- — Venezuela's never-ending crisis
- On 10 January Nicolás Maduro was sworn in as president for a third term following an election contested far beyond the habitual opposition to the Bolivarian revolution. Why has it resolved none of Venezuela's problems? - 2025/02 / article
- — Chile: in search of a consensus for reform
- Mass protests in Chile in 2019 paved the way for Gabriel Boric's leftwing government to come to power. But with his time as president almost up, what became of his promise to transform the country? - 2025/02 / article
- — Is vengeance ever justice?
- A century ago, a young Armenian gunned down a Turkish politician for his part in the genocide of his people. The case still raises profound questions about what constitutes justice in the wake of atrocities. - 2025/02 / article
- — Russia struggles to fill jobs
- Russia desperately needs immigrants to supplement its ageing and shrinking workforce. But that's not the message being sent by its immigration policies and political rhetoric. - 2025/02 / article
- — UK: Labour and the lobbyists
- The UK Labour Party promised to clean up British politics, bringing transparency after years of Tory cronyism and corruption. But the closer it got to power, the closer the lobbyists got. - 2025/02 / article
- — The Greens, driving force of German militarism
- German politics is changing as the EU's economic powerhouse falters. The Greens, for instance, a party founded on a manifesto of pacifism, are now the most enthusiastic cheerleaders for rearmament. - 2025/02 / article
- — South Korea: anatomy of a coup gone wrong
- President Yoon Suk-yeol's December coup was over within hours, but it wasn't an impulsive act. Details soon emerged of careful planning and a readiness to risk confrontation with North Korea to bring it off. - 2025/02 / article
- — The US ‘torture memo'
- Coverage of Syria's prisons overlooks their decades-long use as key destinations for extraordinary rendition, where terror suspects were sent for brutal interrogations. - 2025/02 / article, box, 2025/02 Middle East
- — Bloodlands of the south
- In the second world war the West paid scant regard to the slaughter that took place in Eastern Europe – human suffering counted for less in those bloodlands. Tragically, the same dynamic is at work in today's Middle East. - 2025/02 / article, 2025/01 syria
- — Big tech's kings with no clothes
- The US tech giants – with market caps that rival the GDP of entire nations, a tight grip on the dissemination of information and ubiquity in social interactions – had begun to seem more powerful than states. Whether minting (virtual) currency or conquering space, their overweening ambitions seemed boundless. However, the sight of the big tech bosses submitting to Donald Trump's will reveals them as kings with no clothes, ultimately dependent on political power. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos makes (...) - 2025/02 / editorial
- — East Germany's past dreams of the future
- The GDR planned Eisenhüttenstadt as a model town in the 1950s. Now that its population and steelworks have shrunk significantly, will it become a living monument to a failed utopia? - 2025/02 / article, 2025/02 Eisenhüttenstadt
- — Why Donald Trump won the US election
- Trump's victory is a challenge to those who believed that condemning racism, police violence and the far right are key to energising non-voters. It didn't work. There's no shortage of theories as to why. - 2024/12 / article
- — Italy: Giorgia Meloni's cultural takeover
- Giorgia Meloni strengthened her party's position in the recent EU election. That's more bad news for Italy's cultural sector, where top jobs are going to political figures eager to rewrite the country's past. - 2024/07 / article
- — January: the longer view
- The month's archives. - 2025/01 / perspective
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