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John Pilger, pictured in 2010
JOHN PILGER, activist, radical journalist, broadcaster and exposer of injustice and the crimes of the powerful, died over the weekend.
Tributes were paid to the principled investigator whose articles, films and books lifted the stones beneath which squirmed the institutionalised racism of the country of his birth, Australia, against indigenous Australians.
His work targeted the imperialism and corruption which drove wars including Vietnam and the two wars on Iraq, and in his adopted homeland, Britain, the forces at work in the continuing destruction of the National Health Service.
If true, the photo’s history is a damning indictment of the systematic exploitation of non-Western journalists by Western media organisations – a pattern that persists today, posit KATE CANTRELL and ALISON BEDFORD
On January 2 2014, PJ Harvey used her turn as guest editor of the Today programme to expose the realities of war, arms dealing and media complicity. The fury that followed showed how rare – and how threatening – such honesty is within Britain’s most Establishment broadcaster, says IAN SINCLAIR
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review The Six Billion Dollar Man, Avatar: Fire and Ash, Goodbye June, and Super Elfkins
RONNIE KASRILS pays tribute to Ruth First, a fearless fighter against South African apartheid, in the centenary month of her birth