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

When the transnational giant decided to dig for lithium in Serbia it was met by widespread protests. Andrej Ivančić and Sergey Steblev tell this cautionary tale of 'green' tech. As electric cars get ...

Our resident Agony Uncle advises a reader on how to handle an upsetting discovery about her partner. The other day my partner asked me to email him a file he had saved on his computer at home. As I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dinyar Godrej interviews We Own It campaign founder Cat Hobbs on why the time is ripe for bringing public services back into public ownership Cat Hobbs is the founder and director of UK-based We Own ...

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 ...

A revealing set of US studies has got Urvashi Butalia thinking about how the rich behave in Delhi. My office is located in an urban village in the heart of Delhi. Originally surrounded by fields where ...

Secretive and ruthless, the traffickers controlling the kidney trade thrive on the desperation of the poor and the sick. Nancy Scheper-Hughes lays bare the ‘collateral damage’. The slide on the screen ...