CONTENTS

THE BIG STORY

DECOLONIZATION

I M A G E S

/ G E T T Y

I L L A

I P S O M O D E V

C H

15 The long goodbye

If we want to build a more just world, we need to confront the legacies of empire, argues Amy Hall.

21 THE FACTS

22 How Third Worldism was silenced

Kojo Koram charts how the hopes of anti-colonial governments were quashed by the likes of Margaret Thatcher.

25 Ain dun yet

Amy Hall reports from Barbados on ditching the Queen and the legacies of colonialism.

31 The fight for reparations

Priya Lukka explains what reparations could mean, drawing from the rich and varied global movement for repair.

34 Get up, pay up

The demand for climate justice is growing. Carlos Edill Berríos Polanco reports on the campaign for the Global North to cough up for its climate debt.

36 ‘Our culture is word of mouth’

A new Kenyan media initiative is using live performance to try and break free of colonial industry norms. Patrick Gathara goes to see what it ’s all about.

39 How Modi hijacked the call to decolonize

Is the right-wing Indian government shaking off its colonial past? Not at all , writes Tarushi Aswani.

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CURRENTS

Stories making the news   8 Tigray peace at risk Plus: Borderlines   9 Introducing: Bola Tinubu Plus: Seriously? 10 Strike surge in China

Squatting Berlin’s private parking spaces New road threatens Peruvian Amazon Plus: Inequality Watch Plus: Sign of the Times 12 Food programme cuts hit Rohingya Plus: Open Window 13 France’s reckoning with police violence Plus: Reasons to be cheerful

REGULARS   6 Letters

Plus: Why I…   7 Letter from Shapajilla

Stephanie Boyd reports from an Amazonian village where traditional ways of life are changing with modern times

42 Country Profile: Yemen

44 Cartoon History: Pirates of the Atlantic

David Lester and Marcus Rediker’s graphic novel tells the story of three unlikely companions sold into servitude on a merchant ship and thrust into a voyage of rebellion. In this extract, African American fugitive John Gwin recalls a mutiny which established democracy onboard an imperial merchant ship.

49 Temperature Check

Could the age of artwash be coming to an end? Danny Chivers counts on the successes of the movement to kick the oil industry out of the UK’s arts and culture scene.

52 The Interview

Sofia Karim discusses art, architecture and activism with Subi Shah.

63 Southern Exposure

Mahshad Jalalian captures a shot of a young nomad in Iran’s north-eastern Razavi Khorasan region.

72 Hall of Infamy – Kais Saied

Tunisia’s president crushes the hopes of democrats in the birthplace of the Arab Spring.

80 The Puzzler

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