As the genocide on Gaza has continued unabated, student groups have exhausted the democratic processes available to them: ...

‘Together we have the chance to save the planet’ goes a Rio Tinto ad on Serbian TV. But saving the planet in this instance ...

More widely, there’s an urgent need for truly decolonized laws across Africa. But at this time of tremendous pushback against ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has perhaps the richest concentration of precious metals and minerals on earth. Colette Braeckman describes how their exploitation by warring factions has fuelled the ...

As industrial agriculture encroaches into the last wild places of the Earth, it’s unleashing dangerous pathogens. Time to heal the metabolic rift between ecology and economy, suggests Rob Wallace.

John Pilger has clear views about the duty of journalists. True to form, his latest film pulls no punches. He talks to Vanessa Baird on the eve of its release. John Pilger issues a statement to the ...

Carmen Herrera traces the history of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, from socialist liberators to ‘institutional dictators’, under the increasingly brutal rule of Daniel Ortega A mural of ...

Getting politicians to bend policy to your company’s will is a fine art – requiring a combination of charm, dogged persistence, threats and bushels of cash. But corporate lobbyists know just which ...

Slavery began with civilization. For hunter-gatherers slaves would have been an unaffordable luxury – there wouldn’t have been enough food to go round. With the growth of cultivation, those defeated ...

2008 is the ‘International Year of Sanitation’. What will it take, asks *Maggie Black*, to launch a new sanitary revolution? Exactly 150 years ago, an exceptionally hot summer reduced the Thames ...