JULY 2021 | NO 2107 MIDDLE EAST ASIA EAST/WEST How the Assad clan holds onto power China’s Communist Party turns 100 ‘Red grandmothers’ of c20 feminism After ten years of civil war, Bashar profits from entrenched family power structures | ADRIEN CLUZET ▶ p6 Can the CCP’s leaders keep delivering prosperity and still retain the party’s control? | JEAN-LOUIS ROCCA ▶ p7 When women of the Eastern bloc and global South fought together for their rights | KRISTEN R GHODSEE ▶ p8 CULTURE Michael Armitage at the Royal Academy Kenyan-British artist challenges colonial history and its legacy as London reopens | jon bird ▶ p14 ENGLISH P A R R Y I D · D A V A R T S Y O F A C A D E M R O Y A L © · G E T T Y · A F P S O T E R A S E D U A R D O War and turmoil in the Horn of Africa Ethiopia and Eritrea join forces against Tigray uprising | Laura-Maï Gaveriaux and Noé Hochet-Bodin ▶ p2 . 9 9 | U S $ 5 £ 4