People across the world are standing up to the power of the arms trade. Amy Hall explores its threat to life and democracy.
It’s a cold, bright morning on a narrow street in Brighton, on the south coast of England. Neighbours are peering through windows, or coming out onto the pavement, t...
A young boy, Zein Yousef, sleeps on the grave of his mother who died in an Israeli air strike in Gaza. A mother cries as she speaks to journalists, cradling her listless and starving daughter in Sudan. Two-year old Ali Khalifeh, found alive after 14 hours under the rubble in Lebanon, lies on a hospital ward – his paren...
A selection of feature articles from each of the latest New Internationalist magazines.
Although far from a modern phenomenon, the potency and complexity of misinformation has increased in the digital age. To tackle it, we need a systemic response that goes further than debunking one lie at a time, argues Nanjala Nyabola.
Rising costs, Covid-19 and austerity have pushed too many countries – and households – into unmanageable debt. Amy Hall asks how we got here, and finds a movement shaking off the stigma of debt and getting organized.
Can South Africa ever fully shake off the shackles of apartheid? Conrad Landin asks whether the country’s historic genocide case against Israel could lead to a reckoning at home.
How can we prevent an unjust transition? As the clean economy gets into gear, Nick Dowson asks whether a market-focused, subsidies-led approach will just mean more of the same.
We don’t just need solutions – we need the courage to imagine they will succeed. Conrad Landin makes the case for collective action to secure a just future.
We depend on it for food, shelter and work, it’s a cultural marker and a source of identity – but also a site of violence and anguish. It’s time for a reckoning, writes Amy Hall.
A selection of articles from the New Internationalist magazine archives.
After five years of resistance, Indonesia began the construction of an international airport set to destroy the sand-dune ecosystem and houses of residents already forced out of the area, writes Pramilla Deva
The Hondurans who took to the streets following the election were met by a hailstorm of teargas and sometimes live gunfire, writes Richard Swift.
A new history of pro-Zionist pressure is strongest in its simplicity, writes Rob Norman.
Stephanie Boyd experiences new life amid grief on a night voyage in the Peruvian Amazon.
Veronique Mistiaen meets Afghanistan’s ‘mother of education’, who for more than two decades has been transforming lives through community-based learning.
Ego? Tick. Money? Tick. Power-hungry? Tick. A disaster for the world? Tick.
State of the industry; Deadly business; At the border; Who’s supplying whom?
Empower yourself! Use your vote! Illustration by Kate Evans.