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African village
Sisters and brothers - Three decades of change in an African village Compelled by a news agenda with the attention span of a flea, it is rare enough for journalists to return to stories they have...
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The exceptionally brave - 500th issue
Our 500th issue – time for courage and change It won’t last, the young founders of New Internationalist were told 500 issues ago. ‘The main problem was that no-one really believed that a magazine on...
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Populism rises again
It’s crunch time! Final chance to join us On 1 March we pushed the button and held our breath. We had just launched our Community Share Offer inviting you, our readers and supporters, to buy into a...
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West Papua - Freedom in sight?
Five decades of defiance If you’ve never heard of West Papua, you’re not alone. It continues to amaze me how this 50-year freedom struggle on the world’s second-largest island is still so little-known....
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Homelessness
The meaning of home I still remember buying our first (and only) house decades ago; pinching ourselves that we’d made such an impossible leap into the financial void. It was a late autumn afternoon...
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The Equality Effect
Holding on to hope Why should we hold out any hope for greater equality when the very richest people in the world are taking more and more? Pessimistic reactions are commonplace. But there is often...
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Bad Education
Being the best Do you ever get that ‘I wish I’d been a teacher’ moment? I get it, sometimes – usually at my seven-year-old son’s ‘sharing assemblies’. Hundreds of children fill the school hall, which...
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Brazil's soft coup
Rebranding dictatorship in Latin America Not so long ago Brazil was a country with both a booming economy and an enviably progressive set of social policies. Today, almost exactly one year since Dilma...
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Humans vs robots
We are not the robots 1978. I still wore flared trousers while everyone else had graduated to skinny bottoms. I had just entered my teens and my soundtrack was Kraftwerk rather than the racket of punk....
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Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent
Resisting the squeeze on public space It’s hard sometimes to get the balance right. At the New Internationalist we strive to tell the unvarnished truth which can be dauntingly negative. But we try to...
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What's left for the young?
Forever young... A sobering realization: I have 11 months left of being young. Well, to be more precise, I have 11 months left until my 16-25 Young Person’s Railcard – a little orange voucher that...
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Black Lives Matter
A rallying cry I spent many years trying to ignore my blackness. A futile effort growing up in an almost all-white area of rural Britain. The differences were not just in how I looked but also in the...
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Humanitarianism under attack
Who cares? While I was researching this magazine, the offices of the international NGO Save the Children were bombed in Afghanistan. This was bookended by two suicide attacks in Kabul, one using an...
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Public ownership rises again
The common interest Imagine if the air that we breathe were privatized. Companies would allocate it for payment and profit, and, one would hope, throw in a bit of quality control. A completely crazy...
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A better media is possible
Something good? Not so long ago, reporters ‘becoming the story’ was taboo, journalists writing about the media, a navel gaze too far. Leave that to the academics. But, like it or not, today’s chaotic...
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The next financial crisis
Exotic monstrosities Ten years ago I took an entry-level economics class at school. It was September 2008. Lehman Brothers had just filed for bankruptcy. ‘It’s certainly an interesting time to be...
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Making peace in a world at war
World in pieces, world at peace The city centre felt safe, once you got used to the soldiers on patrol. But as we drove out to a former stronghold of Boko Haram on the edge of Maiduguri – where I...
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The dirt on waste
Deep disconnect I once had the misfortune to meet someone who claimed that he found buying a stack of t-shirts from the uber-cheap retail giant Primark to wear for a couple of days each and then...
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Trade in Turmoil
Trade in the era of Trump and Brexit There was a time when trade was a slow-moving tanker of a topic – what we, at New Internationalist, would call a ‘solid development issue’. Not in these times of...
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Building a new internationalism
Something bigger An HSBC advert recently caught my eye on the London Underground. ‘We are not an island,’ the billboard read. ‘We are a Colombian coffee-drinking, American movie-watching, Swedish...
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How to avoid climate breakdown
Exit apocalypse My nine-year-old son, Laurie, looked up at me from the sofa the other day. ‘I know!’ he said, apropos of nothing. ‘What if we found something to put into cars that didn’t make the world...
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The right to the city
City limits Once the cold of winter has retreated, weekends in Rotterdam, where I live, are no longer safe for those who value peace and quiet. The city hosts free festivals and sporting events in...
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Who owns the sea?
Sea fever ‘I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,’ we would belt out, in ragged unison, aged 10. ‘And all I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by.’ Our teacher’s idea...
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China in charge
Fear of a red planet It’s 1860 and the ‘century of humiliation’ is underway: China is forced to open up to the opium trade and Hong Kong has been handed over to London. British troops slaughter...
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Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone
Border reality check The Trump administration first started to tear children from their parents at the Mexican border in April 2018. As photographs spread of distraught toddlers in wire-mesh cages,...
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How we make poverty
Levelling up Poverty is a downer, no two ways about it. It refuses to be made history, though, mercy knows, it should have been consigned to it long ago. And it resists jollying up – narratives of the...
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The fight for clean air
A world of change As I’m sure is the case for everyone reading this, a lot has changed at New Internationalist over a very short span of time. We are all now working at home, some of us with young...
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The Kurds - betrayed again
The Kurds and Covid-19 Usually there’s no discussion about it. The Big Story, the main theme of the magazine, is what goes on the cover. But, in the midst of the current global pandemic, it seemed...
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Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic
Out of the turmoil When, back in March, we first discussed doing this issue on ‘the world after Covid-19’, there was some concern that the pandemic might have passed by the time we published. If only!...
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A caring economy
Home truths An innocent question: ‘How are you feeling about the care magazine?’ my housemate asked me over coffee. ‘Angry’ was my answer. In fact, I’ve spent a large part of the Covid-19 pandemic...
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The biodiversity emergency
Nature’s restoration Probably by mistake, a tiny bird flies up to my balcony in the busy, restless city and looks me in the eye. Is it sheer sentimentality that floods me with joy? Why does it feel...
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Democracy on the edge
Democracy’s edge Sometimes, no, often, it’s the thing that’s staring you in the face that you do not see; the dramatic scene being played out far away is what defines the subject – in this case,...
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Vaccine equality
It’s the only Way A feat of global collaboration. As Covid-19 vaccines emerged, the future seemed to open up again. But amid the celebration lay a parallel story of inequality and corporate power. Here...
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Courage and terror in Myanmar
Rise up for Myanmar There’s no going back. That unflinching commitment to months, if not years, of resistance has poured out of every person I’ve spoken to from Myanmar since the coup of 1 February...
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Food justice: who gets to eat?
How not to feed the world Imagine you live by the Atlantic Ocean, close enough to hear the waves breaking. In those waters swim small fish. They are a superfood: rich in the nutrients needed by your...
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The future of work
Value-added work Like it or not, we place a value on the work we do. Depending on our perception, this might be the notion of finding fulfilment through the work one does (extolled alike by managers...
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Romani lives matter
Te Aven Bachtale I, like so many others, have Zoom fatigue. But every Tuesday evening since September, I’ve been genuinely excited to log on to a beginners’ class in Romanes. Te aven bachtale conveys a...
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Abolition
Reimagining justice Who keeps us safe? I was doomscrolling through social media when an ad caught my eye. ‘The LGBTQ+ community aren’t just part of our community, they’re part of us,’ said the British...
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How we stop big oil
Something’s got to give A massive ice shelf on the edge of Antarctica is starting to crack. Fissures began appearing in the ice holding back the Thwaites glacier – a sheet the size of Florida which...
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Rivers of life
One river, many stories A river brims with tales. Take our cover star, barefoot and beaming, as she rows her boat on the Mekong in Vietnam’s delta region. Is her life still in sync with the river or is...
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Railways
All aboard At Ivangorod on Russia’s border with Estonia, several years ago, I was unceremoniously booted off a train and frogmarched down the tracks. It was my own fault – my visa had expired during...
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The cost of living crisis
Sharing the treasure A recent headline about an Italian design studio’s plans for a gigantic superyacht caught my eye. Shaped like a turtle and the size of a small city, it would be the largest...
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A world to win
Futures of our making At the heart of most struggles for justice is the desire for a better world – immediately, and for future generations. That second part is the most challenging. As prison...
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Loneliness
The crisis of loneliness - craving connection Joyce Carol Vincent. A woman whose name I’ll never forget. In 2006, the body of Joyce – a vivacious, young, talented aspiring singer from West London – was...
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Palestine
From occupation to uprising A friend from Gaza – now living in Europe after three attempts to leave the Strip – tells me how he only entered the territory of Israel, where his ancestral home lies, once...
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Decolonize now
Tales of empire There’s a popular proverb displayed on a sign in the Barbados Museum: ‘Unless you know the road you’ve come down, you cannot know where you are going.’ As Barbados continues on its path...
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Spying on dissent
Who’s watching you? As I hopped onto the metro at Barcelona’s Diagonal station last week, I couldn’t shake the uneasy feeling of being followed. While I’m sure my fears were unfounded, listening to the...
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Climate capitalism
Exploitation in the green transition Just days after Hamas’s 7 October attacks, as Israel’s devastation of Gaza was getting into full swing, I received an odd email. It pitched a potential article from...
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South Africa 30 years later
AMANDLA! Since our first issue in 1973, South Africa has never been far from the pages of this magazine. In our March 1995 edition, which had the same theme as this one, editor David Ransom used this...
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