Brazil: 30 years since the Eldorado massacre
30 years since the massacre by military police of landless workers at Eldorado do Carajás, in Pará, Brazil, life remains precarious and dangerous. Pará state has seen over 1,000 murdered in the last 45 years. Impunity still reigns.
Brazil’s landless: Pathways to Utopia
Sue Branford reviews Alex Ungrateeb Flynn's book Pathways to Utopia - Time and Transformation in the Landless Workers' Movement of Brazil.
Brazil’s MST: Activism and Utopia
Jasmine Haniff reviews Alex Ungprateeb Flynn’s book about Brazil’s landless worker’s movement, which offers a compelling framework for understanding how a social movement can develop an alternative collective future, through decades of grassroots struggle.
Art Against Extraction: ATRATO by Juan Covelli
ATRATO by Juan Covelli runs until 22 February 2026 at the V&A Photography Centre in South Kensington, London. Admission is free.
Honduras: Garífuna resist land grabs, Indigenous voices sidelined at COP30
Grassroots movements push for more inclusive climate governance as palm oil expansion threatens ancestral lands.
Bolivia Burning: ‘We are on the edge of a precipice’
In a record year for forest loss across the tropics, more than a fifth of all the primary forest destroyed in 2024 was in...
Maya Q’eqchi’ community forcibly displaced by the power of private interests
In the latest of ongoing violent attacks against the rural community of Lajeb Kej, private security forces destroy the resident families' homes and force...
Colombia’s ‘Just Transition’ from coal to wind and solar
Once the centre of coal mining in Colombia, La Guajira now finds itself at the heart of Colombia’s climate goals, which are some of the most ambitious in the world. But what does this mean for the people who live here?
Confronting racism and gendered violence in Guerrero
On 27 January 2025, the collective Mujeres Colibrí, Defensoras de la Vida (Hummingbird Women, Defenders of Life) presented their research on the multiple forms of violence experienced by Indigenous and Afro-descendant women in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, to state representatives and local media.
Brazil: organic cotton farmers lead the way
Organic cotton production lifts resettled and Quilombola communities out of poverty in Brazil, but there are challenges to keeping the trade sustainable in the long term.
