RAMZY: My name is Ramzy Baroud. I'm a Palestinian from Gaza, a Palestinian refugee from Gaza. I am a Palestinian historian. I have written seven books on Palestine. I am affiliated with various ...

Many people around the world might not know of us, for our struggle rarely makes headlines.

Carmen Herrera traces the history of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, from socialist liberators to ‘institutional dictators’, under the increasingly brutal rule of Daniel Ortega A mural of ...

Ian Curtis and Joy Division stand out. Not least because their music portrayed emotions, sorrows and terrors in a way that most popular music never comes within a country mile of and because Ian ...

I was born in 1965, the year the plastic bag was invented. During my childhood, in a boom city in central India, I remember plastic bags were still relatively rare. Only the more expensive shops gave ...

What is a corporation? Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary defines it as 'an ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility'. It is a legal construct, a charter granted by the ...

Secretive and ruthless, the traffickers controlling the kidney trade thrive on the desperation of the poor and the sick. Nancy Scheper-Hughes lays bare the ‘collateral damage’. The slide on the screen ...

Microsoft's former CEO has made record-breaking donations to global health programmes – but an investigation by Andrew Bowman reveals some unpleasant side-effects. Last year, Bill Gates reminisced in ...

Co-founder of the Debt Collective debtors' union Astra Taylor speaks to Amy Hall about building collective power to abolish illegitimate debt.

Billions in aid, coupled with Egypt’s harsh new asylum law represent a ‘ruinous’ model that rewards militarism over public services. Sara Elbashir and Louis Boyd-Madsen report from Cairo. Fatima is ...

The Kattunayakan are tribal people who live deep in the forests of the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve in South India. They collect and sell wild honey. Today, settlers from the crowded plains and eviction ...