Agenda Stories making the news this month 8 Polish women counter Nazis on the streets 8 Deadliest year for eco-defenders 9 Whistleblowers un-gagged in Australia 9 Heads of state, stateless 9 Introducing Emmanuel Macron 10 Indonesian flight-path farmers pushed out 10 Balfour Declaration – an overdue apology? 11 Nigerian community takes oil giant to court 11 Oregon trumps the Fed
Plus: Scratchy Lines by Simon Kneebone and Reasons to be Cheerful
The Big Story – Brazil’s soft coup s
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12 Brazil’s soft coup hardens Vanessa Baird sets out to see how dictatorship is being rebranded in Latin America’s most populous nation. 18 Grand land theft Open season for Brazil’s oligarchs as they plunder, riding roughshod over the rights of indigenous people, peasants and small family farmers. 21 What’s sex got to do with it? A lot, if you listen to Brazil’s women and minorities, as they face an emboldened culture of rape, violence and sexism. 23 Marcela’s Recipe of the Month
The domestic goddess imparts the secret of how to make a soft coup. Not to everyone’s taste, perhaps… 24 ‘We have a lot to teach the city’ Squatters and favela dwellers speak out about police violence, life on the edge and creative resistance.
Features 30 No celebration of colonization
Why First Nations people boycotted Canada 150 – a year-long celebration of a century and a half of confederation. Sian Griffiths reports.
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34 ‘When people are tired of exploitation, they resort to violence’ Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, Arun Gandhi, speaks to
Danielle Batist about technology, Trump, and anger as a gift. 42 The persistence of patriarchy Renowned US feminist Cynthia Enloe on the roots of patriarchy, how it is adapted and sustained – and how to go about challenging it.
Opinion 33 Mark Engler ‘It’s time to take down America’s racist monuments.’ 37 Steve Parry The robots are coming!
PLUS: Polyp’s Big Bad World cartoon.
Mixed media 38 Film reviews Tramontane directed and written by Vatche Boulghourjian;
Kills on Wheels directed and written by Attila Till. 39 Music reviews At Least Wave Your Handkerchief At Me by Saz’iso; Frost on Fiddles by Frigg. 40 Book reviews The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk; The Gurugu
Pledge by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel; Walking on Lava by The Dark Mountain Project; Out of the Wreckage by George Monbiot. PLUS Also out there…
Regulars 6 Letters PLUS: Open Window, with guest cartoonist Vasco Gargalo from Portugal. 7 Letter from Cochabamba Amy Booth travels deep into rural Bolivia and hears of a surprising migration. 28 Country Profile: Somaliland 32 Making Waves Afghan women’s rights campaigner
Jamila Afghani talks to Beena Nadeem. 36 Worldbeaters: Salva Kiir Mayardit and Riek Machar South Sudan’s current president and former vice-president –
a pair of thin-skinned, feuding kleptocrats. 44 Southern Exposure Jean Paul Saint Fleur photographs two boys getting ready for carnival in southern Haiti. 45 Puzzle page PLUS: Marc Roberts’ Only Planet cartoon. 46 And Finally British singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore talks to Danny
Chivers about music, politics and the importance of ‘shining light in the darkness’.
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