John Wojcik pays tribute to a black US activist who spent six decades at the forefront of struggles for voting rights, economic justice and peace – reshaping US politics and inspiring movements worldwide
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Gravity, the weakest force in the universe
The only reason we initially noticed gravity is thanks to the size of huge and easily observable objects like the planets — but all material possesses this force and scientists are determined to measure it, even at the atomic level. ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL report
In the fifth and final part of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG explains how the Communist Party of China’s approach demonstrates how Marxism, rooted in concrete conditions and mass participation, can shape history
In times of genocide, art is not a refuge from politics but a weapon against injustice, says ROGER McKENZIE, highlighting three of his own favourite political truth-tellers
As members elect their first leadership, a deeper battle is unfolding over what democracy should mean in practice, says CASSI BELLINGHAM
The language of humiliation is a step towards a second civil war, argues RAMZY BAROUD
ANDREW MURRAY says switching the prime minister on and off again is no substitute for new political approach we need
THE world is in free-fall. This seems obvious enough in a world in which billionaires have collectively got richer by $3.9 trillion during a pandemic, exceeding by $0.2 trn the global combined wage income lost by workers in the same time.
However, beyond the inability of governments to regulate capital, the Earth itself is falling towards the Sun, always “overshooting” but being pulled constantly down in a way that creates its orbit.
This is the effect of gravity, the force that keeps us stuck on Earth, the Earth spinning round the Sun, and the Sun moving through space as part of an enormous galaxy.
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