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Sunita Narain looks to the environmentalism of the poor for answers.

Yang Ailun and David Spratt on why politicians are failing.

Social movements around the world are calling for urgent and radical action, broadly based on four main principles.

Stopping climate change will involve reversing some fundamental injustices, argues Jess Worth.

A stirring film, from the first graphic action scenes, showing police attacking demonstrators, and it never flags, never seems staged.

More than just a boardgame, according to its makers, Andy Sheerin and Andy Tompkins, the War on Terror challenges the terrorism taboo.

Lorna, an Albanian working in a Belgian laundry, needs money to open a snack bar. The first step is citizenship, so she marries a very sick heroin addict who no-one expects to live very long.

Polyp on female beauty and male laughter.

There is a company which manufactures and distributes concentrated sugary syrup and the way it conducts its affairs is the subject of Mark Thomas’ enormously readable book.

John le Carré's latest novel could hardly be more topical or timely, dealing as it does with the seamier reaches of international banking and the nether-world inhabited by the fugitive and the stateless.

Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's latest is an animated docudrama in which the director and his friends play key roles deciphering a dream that is connected to Israel's war with Lebanon.

Photographer Ernesto Fernandez recalls the dawn of a new age as Cuba celebrates the 50th anniversary of its revolution.

In the damp, dark winter, Maria Golia finds cold comfort in a pharmacy queue.

Made in tandem with the Albanian accordionist / composer Dasho Kurti, the 11 songs on Deserted Villages offer a broad palate, and not all of it mournful.

Certainly some of these songs may have once been heard over fields and cradles rather than concert halls, but their translation from private to public music is a beautiful one.