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  • A large rally of marchers holding Russian and Ukrainian flags and messages of peace

    We must unite for peace and human rights across the old divides

    Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Dmitri Makarov and Mary Kaldor call for solidarity and dialogue between anti-war movements and across Cold War divides

  • In a snowy scene, a person in a holly hats holds up signs in Chinese writing

    Fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in China

    Qiuyan Chen sued the Chinese ministry of education over homophobic textbooks. She writes about her battle for LGBTQ+ rights in China and the UK

  • A woman holding a photo of a camp used by China to detain Uyghur prisoners

    The war on the Uyghurs

    Moazzam Begg joins the dots between his own experience of the ‘war on terror’ and the repression of the Uyghur people at the hands of the Chinese state

  • Singapore

    One-party rule in Singapore?

    The People’s Action Party has won every election since 1959 – but it hasn’t always been a fair fight, writes Kirsten Han

  • A section of the exhibition showing an arrangement of monochrome portraits

    War Inna Babylon – review

    Tara Okeke explores an important exhibition that offers a compelling history of Black life in Britain through the lens of people, place and struggle

  • Who decides what counts as ‘political’?

    Government demands for public sector ‘neutrality’ uphold a harmful status quo. For civil servant Sophie Izon, it’s time to speak out

  • After the ‘Arab Spring’

    Despite the carnage of Syria and Libya and ruinous stalemate of Yemen, the euphoric appeal of the ‘Arab Spring’ continues to feed revolutionary processes across the region, argues Toufic Haddad

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