Agenda Stories making the news this month 8 Catastrophic fires leave orangutans homeless in Indonesia 8 Malaysia’s creeping totalitarianism 9 Going vegan in Palestine 9 Introducing Bidhya Devi Bhandari 9 Welsh tax rebels unite 10 Putting poor Argentineans on the map 10 Corruption kills in Romania 11 A Kenyan Act without action 11 It’s a lottery

PLUS: Scratchy Lines by cartoonist Simon Kneebone and Reasons to be Cheerful.

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The Big Story – Refugee crisis 12 Fight for the heart of Europe The refugee crisis has put our humanity to the test. Can we rise to the challenge? asks Hazel Healy. 18 Global Refugee Crisis – THE FACTS 20 The Border Industry Who is cashing in on keeping migrants out? Ruben

Andersson reports on a security complex that generates its own demand. 22 ‘How can you say no?’ Reem Haddad reports on how Christian Palestinians in

Lebanon have welcomed Muslim refugees from Syria. 24 Solidarity knocks A round-up of ordinary citizens’ support for refugees and

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migrants, from Indonesia to Mali. 26 The ‘fear of not enough to go round’ When wealth is tied to birthplace, migration should not be surprising, says Bridget Anderson.

Features 28 Unreported Year Stories from around the world that you may have missed during 2015.

Front cover: Sergey Ponomarev Magazine designed by Andrew Kokotka, Ian Nixon and Juha Sorsa. All monetary values are expressed in US dollars unless otherwise noted.

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Mixed media 39 Best of 2015 40 Film reviews The Assassin, directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien; Rams, directed by Grímur Hákonarson; This Changes Everything, by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein. 41 Music reviews Touristes by Vieux Farka Touré and Julia Easterlin; Vesevo by Vesevo. 42 Book reviews Human Acts by Han Kang; Martin John by Anakana

Schofield; What’s Yours is Mine by Tom Slee; Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom in Peril by Paul Aarts and Carolien Roelants; Muted Modernists by Madawi Al-Rasheed. PLUS Also out there…

Opinion 36 Essay: the violence of nonviolent protest by Mark Boyle. 38 Kate Smurthwaite : Doing grief properly. PLUS: Polyp’s Big Bad World cartoon. 44 Mark Engler : A good moment to make a scene.

Regulars 6 Letters 7 Letter from Bangui 34 Country Profile: Djibouti 45 Puzzle Page PLUS: Marc Roberts’ Only Planet cartoon. 46 And Finally Dan Glazebrook talks to award-winning rapper and campaigner Akala about the myth of white supremacy.

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