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Trump’s vision of ‘might is right’ signals the collapse of the postwar order — and a warning of who may be next, warns BOB ORAM
Rethinking the Millennium Development Goals for the world of today
SARAH EDWARDS explains how the goals can be made more meaningful for women in developing countries
ROGER McKENZIE pays tribute to a communist, internationalist and organiser, who endures, 50 years after his death, not just as a towering artist but as a master teacher of struggle
Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY reflects on 2025, tracing how war, imperialism, shrinking democratic spaces and neoliberal restructuring shaped global and Indian politics – pointing towards the urgent task of building a more democratic and just future
RAMZY BAROUD sees Gaza abandoned while the genocide continues
ANDREW MURRAY offers some troubling thoughts on pressing political issues
Tensions have once again escalated between Egypt and Ethiopia over GERD, Africa’s largest hydroelectric project, and now Trump has offered to mediate. NICHOLAS MWANGI reports
Thousands of ethnic minority women in the world's poorest countries are dying from HIV/Aids, TB, malaria and complications in pregnancy and childbirth, yet their deaths remain hidden because governments and international bodies fail to record their health outcomes.
Many more women's lives remain in peril amid efforts to meet the 2015 deadlines for the UN Millennium Development Goals and beyond them.
And some communities in countries described as middle-income states face the danger of abandonment by international donors in spite of their worsening health plight.
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