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After years of struggle in the MAS party, the mass movement of left-wing peasants and workers has founded a new party, with former president Evo Morales as its candidate for the summer’s elections, writes CINDY FORSTER

MIRIAM AMANCAY COLQUE, an indigenous activist from Bolivia, argues that the plight the modern Palestinians face at the hands of Israel is analogous to the genocidal colonialism of European settlers four centuries ago

Lithium is crucial for batteries — but because deposits form only under rare geological conditions, its extraction is a geopolitical flashpoint between the imperial West and the rest of the world, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT