2021

Amazon workers strike back

Staff demand labour rights amid pandemic boom

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

Making waves: global struggle for racial justice keeps pushing

Asian Lives Matter protests demand an end to hatred

Eswatini: one man standing in the way of democracy

Democracy protests seek to end Africa’s last absolute monarchy

SOUTHERN AFRICA

Ecuador: political turmoil far from over

New president faces rough ride as progressive Indigenous political movement rises

Nothing funny about Russia’s election farce

Legislative election reaffirms Putin’s authoritarian grip

Ghana’s opportunistic moral panic

Politicians seek advantage by fuelling attacks on LGBTQI+ people

Cuba: the beginning of the end?

There can be no return to normal following Cuba’s biggest wave of protests in decades

Change in Germany – but how much?

Election still falls short on hopes of climate campaigners

The long reach of Rwandan repression

Dissidents find no safety in exile

Peru: time to break the pattern?

New government promises change – if it survives