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Cape Fever – review

Gerry Hart — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Nadia Davids’ gothic tale evokes the suffocation of domestic service as a psychological duel unfolds between madam and maid, writes Fifi Bat-hef

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My Country: Africa – review

Gerry Hart — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Andrée Blouin's autobiography, whilst messy at points, charts a clear history of resistance to colonial oppression, writes Olivia Umuerwa Rutazibwa

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Iran ’53: The coup that changed the Middle East

Siobhan McGuirk — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:56:12 +0000

When Iran’s elected prime minister, Mohammed Mossaddegh tried to nationalise oil, Britain and the US helped overthrow him. Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi traces how covert interventions continue to shape the region

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Breaking the sword in occupied Palestine

Gerry Hart — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0000

In the first dispatch of our series Breaking the Sword, three clandestine organisers working in the West Bank report on settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing

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Sinners sinks its teeth into Irish settler colonialism

Gerry Hart — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Aisling Walsh celebrates Ryan Coogler's thriller, which points a rare spotlight on Irish complicity in Indigenous genocide and racist violence

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Sahel: broken promises and empty anti-imperialism

Gerry Hart — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0000

The junta regimes of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger present themselves as revolutionary and anti-imperialist. Their hollow rhetoric masks authoritarianism and new forms of foreign influence, argues Joshua Shangobiyi

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Anglo American and the greenwashed mineral rush

Gerry Hart — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 07:00:00 +0000

The British mining giant paints itself as a ‘climate leader’ but boasts a history of violent extraction. Activists from London Mining Network and We Smell Gas identify a critical target for anti-imperialist solidarity

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Key words: Zionism

Gerry Hart — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Richard Kuper examines what zionism is (and isn't) and how it works as an explicitly settler colonial project

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Beyond Pride: gender liberation in the global south

Kimon Daltas — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:15:05 +0000

The language, symbols and identities of Pride are exported globally – and trapped in limited Western ideals. For true liberation, we must look to Indigenous and Asian cultures, argues Sunil Pant

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Until we are all free: Leftwing media and left internationalism

Gerry Hart — Fri, 30 May 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Writers, editors and artists from the global south must be part of left media futures, writes Sanaa Alimia

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