April 2010's Issue

With elections fast approaching, Nick Hunt exposes how Meles Zenawi’s Government has turned its back on its people.

From banks to pipeline routes, refineries to courthouses, meet the activists and communities at the frontline of resistance.

The international campaign to shut down the tar sands is shaping up to be an iconic battle, reports Jess Worth.

Anyone who offers a diagnosis of the current economic malaise and prescribes a cure, but has not read this book, doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

This is a haunting and sometimes upsetting film – with little dialogue but great authenticity and power.

Part memoir, part social commentary, part philosophical inquiry, US writer Nick Flynn’s book builds on his earlier autobiography, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City.

Folk music, as Empire and Love shows so well, is a music that has a grounding in both past and present, both populist and political.

Ugandans fight repressive anti-homosexuality bill

Cluster munitions – long condemned by human rights groups for the devastating impact they have on civilians caught up in conflict – will be banned in most countries as of 1 August.

Gopal Mitra experienced the violence and tragedy of Kashmir firsthand, but is hopeful of a peaceful future, as Jeremy Seabrook discovers.

Zoe Cormier meets two indigenous people for whom this fight couldn’t be more personal.

Maria Golia feels she’s getting old, while the city around her is ‘getting new’.

Leading Canadian activist Maude Barlow explains how trade agreements are driving the death of nature.