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Oasis of life – or zone of sacrifice? The fate of Chile’s culturally and environmentally rich salt flats may be decided by a lithium rush to double output. Vanessa Baird reports from the Salar de Atacama.

Could the threat of nuclear war be closer than ever? Amy Hall explores how we got here and the pathways out of the crisis.

Ilan Pappé dissects the language of genocide used throughout the Zionist movement, from the hidden orders of early military leaders to the lips of Israeli ministers on live TV.

Without a reckoning over their support for Israeli genocide, the US Democrats are doomed to fail, argues Decca Muldowney.

Adio-Adet Dinika explores the hidden stories of the workers who prop up artificial ‘intelligence’, and their efforts at organized resistance.

Corruption, pollution and child labour have long blighted the DRC’s cobalt industry. But is there any way of turning the country’s critical mineral wealth into a blessing rather than a burden? Cat Rainsford investigates.

The Empire Strikes Back. Across the globe governments are using terrorism laws to prosecute protesters. Decca Muldowney traces the practice back to its colonial origins, and considers the future consequences for activism.

In an age of crisis, despair is the currency of the global far right. How, asks Bethany Rielly, can we turn this reactionary tide?

Palestinian resistance lives in the rifle, the pen, the olive tree and the memory of the land, writes Tahrir Hamdi.

With José Antonio Kast poised to govern, Chilean activists warn that promises of order and austerity mask a looming rollback of human, Indigenous and women’s rights hard won since the Pinochet era. Ali Qassim reports.

Global Battlefields; Logging Off; Love in Exile; Flesh.

Defying Milei’s austerity, Argentina’s paediatric hospital workers are leading a nationwide fight to save public healthcare from collapse. By Maia Pauro.

To confront the atrocities of its military dictatorship, Argentina introduced a range of lauded ‘memory and justice’ policies. Now the Javier Milei government is stoking denial of the past and undermining families’ fights for justice. Ali Qassim reports.

Veteran activist, academic and actor Gary Foley talks to Zoe Holman about the past and future of Aboriginal resistance.

Action, and further reading on critical minerals.

Amy Hall explains how a group of determined activists ran one of the world’s biggest arms companies out of town.

State of the industry; Deadly business; At the border; Who’s supplying whom?

A new space race is set to worsen global inequality and extend conflict. We need to return to seeing space as a place for all humankind, argues Nick Dowson.

The West’s attempts to position the Iranian monarch’s son as a ‘credible’ alternative to the Khamenei regime isn’t resonating domestically, argues Peiman Salehi.

They are touted as our way out of climate chaos and essential for making the things we use, from mobile phones to electric vehicles. Vanessa Baird sets out to investigate critical minerals – and the rush to get them.

Tycoons like Musk may want us to believe it’s ok for them to trash the planet in service to dreams of space, but there’s no Planet B, astronomer Lucian Walkowicz writes.

The modern failures of the United Nations are not an aberration – but a product of its imperial roots, argues Conrad Landin. So how can we create a functioning system for global co-operation?

Researcher Peter Howson reports on how the global scramble for new space launch sites is harming people – from Indonesia to the Sámi homelands of Scandinavia.

The Welsh Valleys have been shaped by centuries of extraction, with stark inequality laying the foundation for the rise of the far right today. But there are lessons to be learnt from its rich socialist history, and the solution is also close to home. Maxine Betteridge-Moes, Bethany Rielly and Lydia Godden report.