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Mozambique on a Knife’s Edge

Rehad Desai18 August 2025

The armed conflict in Cabo Delgado between Islamic State–aligned fighters and mercenary forces led by the Rwandan military has escalated sharply in recent weeks. This surge in violence coincides with efforts to reopen the region’s lucrative gas facilities. At the same time, the Frelimo-controlled state is moving to prosecute popular opposition leader Venâncio Mondlane on trumped-up terrorism charges. Mondlane has been a key figure in mobilising mass protests since October last year—protests that have, according to credible sources, already claimed some 600 lives.

Keep eyes on Sudan

Republished18 August 2025

By now, we’ve all seen the images from Gaza. Of starving children, of skeletal arms, of babies so thin they resemble ghosts. Rightly, the world has turned its attention to this horror, however belatedly. What is harder to explain is why Sudan’s starvation crisis—just as urgent, just as human—barely registers in the global imagination. Why does it come only as a footnote? Why is it that certain forms of suffering seem to trigger outrage and mobilization, while others are quietly endured in the background?

From crisis to consolidation: the resistible rise of the Far Right in Europe

Peter Dwyer18 August 2025

The 2010s marked a decisive rupture in European politics. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis in 2008, a wave of disillusionment swept across the continent, eroding public trust in traditional parties and institutions. Amid deepening economic insecurity, rising migration, and cultural anxieties, far-right movements surged—not just on the margins, but into the heart of political power. From France to Hungary, Italy to Sweden, far-right parties have entered parliaments, formed governments, and reshaped national debates, particularly around immigration, national identity, and sovereignty.

James Hansen’s Latest Warning

Republished18 August 2025

James Hansen first warned Congress about global warming in 1988.Pushker Kharecha is a climate scientist and longtime collaborator. They’re not activists waving signs — they’re the people who’ve spent decades knee-deep in the data, building the models, measuring the planet’s fever. And in their latest paper, they’re saying the fever’s far worse than the official diagnosis.

A New Party of the Left

Andrew Burgin & Kate Hudson18 August 2025

The emergence of a new left-wing party in the UK, in response to Labour’s rightward shift, its complicity in Gaza and the broader failures of capitalism, mark a potential transformation of British politics.

Ian Angus’ The War Against the Commons

Republished18 July 2025

Ian Angus’ The War Against the Commons gives the history of capitalism’s dispossession of the peasantry in service of profit, in a process which is far from over, finds Elaine Graham-Leigh

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