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The student debt crisis is real: but artists are fighting back

Overturning financial oppression — UK student grants were abolished by the Tory government this week. We talk to the artist behind the ‘Day After Debt’ project to find out how art can challenge a culture of debt.

  • Activism
  • Joshua Gabert-Doyon

How radical publishers in Hong Kong are pissing off the Chinese government

Disappearing booksellers and sex scandals — The strange story of Mighty Current publishing takes another turn, as UK national Lee Bo becomes the fifth employee to go missing.

  • Activism
  • Josh Gabert-Doyon

Documentary #ThisIsACoup gets inside the fierce battle between Syriza and the EU

Angela, Suck Our Balls — #ThisIsACoup is a four-part documentary series arguing that the EU destroyed the first radical left government in modern history and forced economic collapse on Greece.

  • Activism
  • Alex King

Hugo Chavez’s Bolivarian revolution crumbles in Venezuela

Latin America’s progressive ‘pink tide’ is on the way out — Victory for the right wing opposition in Venezuela’s national elections is another defeat for left-leaning populist governments across the continent.

  • Activism
  • Alex King

Young, British and angry? The government thinks you're a terrorist

Start of a police state? — A London children's safeguarding board has warned parents that distrust of government policy and the mainstream media could lead to potential extremism.

  • Activism
  • Adam White

In Pictures: Political posters in the Philippines, speaking out against corruption

Trapo by Lawrence Sumulong — Filipino-American photographer Lawrence Sumulong photographs political posters, ahead of 2016 elections, to show distrust in a country ravaged by corruption.

  • Art
  • Shelley Jones

The young South African photographers you need to follow on Instagram

#RainbowNation #BornFrees — Photographers Sipho Mpongo, Sean Metelerkamp and Wikus de Wet travelled South Africa together as Twenty Journey to understand the land that binds them. Here they select their favourite Instagrammers.

  • Magazine
  • Alex King

World leaders collaborate on pro-war charity Christmas single 'Bomb The World' (kinda)

A depressingly accurate spoof — Comedy group Mother's Best Child and online magazine Don't Panic team up to a produce a video that exposes warmongering politicians and token festive philanthropy in one swoop.

  • Music
  • Shelley Jones

Five things we learned from Adam Curtis in Berlin

A 21st Century prophet — Filmmaker Adam Curtis spoke at HAU Berlin about the invisibility of modern power, the failure of progressive politics and how technology is suffocating our humanity.

  • Film
  • Antonia Harris

Stuck between two evils: rethinking the Syria conflict

Tough questions, no easy answers — With ISIS on one side, the Assad dictatorship on the other, and the proxies of Western and Middle Eastern countries filling in the gaps, what hope is there for ordinary Syrians to live in peace?

  • Culture
  • Fiorella Lecoutteux

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