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Inside Rojava’s resistance against Turkish drone attacks

‘I saw some of my friends die in front of my eyes,’ says Manije, a women’s rights activist from the Kurdish city of Kobane in North East Syria. Manije had been protesting with dozens of other civilians at the Tishreen dam on 16 January when they were hit by

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Egypt criminalizes those on the move

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has extended his war on dissent to Egypt’s growing refugee population. Under a new law ratified in December, refugees fleeing violence in Sudan and Palestine could have their status cancelled for participating in political or union activities. Although the law purports to standardize Egypt’s

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Big Oil's Exodus from the Niger Delta

Nearly a century after plundering the Niger Delta for the black gold, fossil fuel giants have finalized plans to ditch their onshore oil fields and move drilling far into the Gulf of Guinea, where a massive haul remains untapped. This divestment, which received the nod from Nigeria’s regulatory bodies

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In the West Bank, Israel continues its collective punishment of Palestinians

For two-year-old Layla Khateeb, there was no time for goodbyes — just a sniper’s bullet to the head as her family scrambled for cover during an Israeli military raid on Muthallath Al-Shuhada village in the occupied West Bank on 25 January. Khateeb was killed during operation ‘Iron Wall’ – an Israeli

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Is the UK one step closer to ending arms sales to Israel?

A legal challenge by Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq, and the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), could be pushing the British government one step closer to restricting arms sales to Israel. The High Court has allowed a full hearing for the case, proposed for May 2025. The focus will be

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Photo Essay: Nickel mines are destroying Indonesia's environment

Just after sunrise in Labola village, a mass of traffic crawls towards the Chinese-owned Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park, the country’s epicenter of nickel production. Once a fishing village, 50 nickel factories now sprawl across the area. Indonesia is the world's largest nickel producer, with 15 per cent

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'This cycle of suicides must end': Indian farmers demand further reform of agricultural sector

‘If my sacrifice can prevent the suicides of more farmers, I am ready to give my life,’ says Jagjit Singh Dallewal, a farmer from Punjab. He hasn’t eaten for two months as part of a bid to demand the Indian government protect farmers’ livelihoods. Earlier this month, more than

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Serbians turn sadness into anti-government rage

On Monday evening, Iva Bakračlić sat among tens of thousands of protestors blockading an intersection leading into Belgrade, Serbia’s capital. Months of student-led anti-government protests against the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) came to a head as the populist Prime Minister Milos Vucevic announced his resignation on 27 January.

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Facing death threats, Mauritanian TikTokers seek asylum in Senegal

Two Mauritanian TikTokers are seeking political asylum in Senegal after facing death threats from speaking out against electoral fraud in their home country. Malick Ba and Bocar Diallo (known respectively as Procureur General and Commissaire Diallo on TikTok) have together garnered hundreds of thousands of followers and millions of views

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'No ethics? No Wi-Fi': Internet cut off to UK insurers in climate-motivated sabotage

Early this morning, the UK offices of over 400 insurance companies, brokers and managing agents woke up to a new and highly disruptive form of non-violent direct action against them — cutting off their internet. Overnight, activists from the underground climate group Shut The System posing as electrical engineers gained access

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Leicester students to show solidarity with Palestine in hunger strike

Students at the University of Leicester are protesting in support of Palestinians in Gaza by going on a hunger strike according to a Leicester Action for Palestine statement seen by the Leicester Gazette. This hunger strike follows a previous occupation of Attenborough Tower in November, which resulted in 11 arrests.

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Is Britain complicit in West Papua violence?

The Indonesian military has been accused of carrying out a wave of brutal extra-judicial killings and torture in West Papua in recent months. The Workers for West Papua campaign has highlighted the complicity of countries like Britain, Australia, the US and others in the violence, calling on workers in Britain

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Our books editor on what to read in 2025

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Surviving a massacre in Myanmar

By Ahtaram Shin The sun was setting over Tamay Chaung village in Rakhine State, Myanmar, when 10-year-old Robina Bi Bi heard the sound of explosions. Her father had gone to the paddy fields to bring the cattle home, and her mother was somewhere near the village. But that evening in

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Kazakhstan’s shrinking lakes

Lake Balkhash, Kazakhstan’s largest lake, is facing a crisis that threatens its very existence. Increased economic activity in China’s Xinjiang province, where the Ille River – which provides 80 per cent of the water to Balkhash – originates, is reducing water flows. This, combined with increased evaporation due to climate

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Climate repression in Canada

In the early hours of 22 October two environmental activists scaled the Jacques-Cartier bridge in Montreal, a vast steel structure over 340 feet tall and 9,000 feet long. The third busiest bridge in Canada and primary point of access to the island, the crossing was shut down for several

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COP16 sidelines Indigenous voices

As international delegates flew home from COP16 in Cali, Colombia, Indigenous leaders from the region began weighing up their wins and losses. Bringing together officials from almost 200 countries, November’s UN summit set out to find solutions to the destructive loss of biodiversity. Leaders from Upper Amazon communities in

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Building a united front in Eastern Europe

As the Czech government seeks to balance EU climate targets with fears over energy insecurity following the outbreak of war in Ukraine, deep mining continues in the country’s north – though for how long is another matter. In 2015, activists formed Limity Jsme My (‘We Are the Limits’) to protest

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On Syria

In the years since Syria’s civil war began in 2011, the country has been slowly drifting away from the mainstream media spotlight. But in the early hours of Sunday morning, Turkish-backed opposition forces declared Syria liberated from the 24-year rule of President Bashar al-Assad as they surged into the

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The war on drugs is a ‘war against women and children’

More than 20 years since Amy Case King served her last prison sentence for drug-related charges in the US, the conviction still affects her.  ‘Criminalization is more harmful in the long-term because it doesn’t address the underlying drug use,’ she says. ‘The impact lingers long after the completed sentence.

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Israel is 'waging a war on our olive trees'

After the first rainfall of autumn, Salah Abu Ali announced the harvest of one of the world’s oldest olive trees in al-Walaja, a Palestinian farming village between Jerusalem and Bethlehem. He spread red mats around the enormous gnarled trunk, fetched wooden ladders to reach the high branches and gathered

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News

PHOTO ESSAY: Panama's sinking islands

Under a new finance goal adopted at the COP29 climate summit last week, wealthy nations have agreed to channel at least $300 billion a year to accelerating climate action in developing countries by 2035. UN climate chief Simon Stiell described the new finance goal as 'an insurance policy for

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Yanomami Women Lead the Charge Against Illegal Mining in the Amazon

In the heart of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, a powerful movement is taking shape. Indigenous Yanomami women, once sidelined in their own communities, are now at the forefront of a battle to save their ancestral lands from the ravages of illegal gold mining. Earlier this year, under the vibrant lights

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The fossil fuel ‘superprofits’ that could fund climate action

More than one trillion dollars in ‘superprofits’ from fossil fuel companies should be used to fund climate change mitigation efforts in the majority world, energy experts say. According to research published in Climate Policy this month, 93 of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies raked in a whopping $1,

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Argentinian President Milei to answer for regressive social policies

Argentinian president Javier Milei was summoned to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) last week to answer for his administration's regressive social policies since his election last year. Lawyers, human rights activists, unions and NGOs filed complaints against the self-described 'anarcho-capitalist' to the Commission, which