This month's big story

The Long War for Meaning

Gaza-born journalist Ramzy Baroud traces how Palestinians have turned survival into a struggle for dignity, history and freedom, with Gaza at the heart of the resistance.

Days before my sister, Suma Baroud, was killed by the Israeli army in Khan Yunis, she texted me a long message about her future plans for the land where her home onc...

Buy this magazine

A note from the editor

Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud

Resisting erasure

Palestinian resistance has entered its eighth decade since the Nakba of 1948. Despite successive wars, sieges, the ongoing expansion of settlements and now genocide, it continues to shape the political and moral landscape of the Middle East.

Resistance in Palestine is a broad, popular movement rooted in the dail...

Read more...





Magazine archive

Here are the most recent magazines we've published.

NI 558 - Gaza - November, 2025 Gaza Ramzy Baroud 1 November 2025 NI 557 - The global far right - September, 2025 The global far right Bethany Rielly 1 September 2025 NI 556 - United Nations at 80 - July, 2025 United Nations at 80 Conrad Landin 1 July 2025

Try it first

Read a full sample magazine..

NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017 Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent Richard Swift 1 December 2017

Recent feature articles

A selection of feature articles from each of the latest New Internationalist magazines.

Gunditjmara, Waddawurrung & Arrernte man Jordan Edwards in the state Legislative Council Chamber, Melbourne, during the first sitting of the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria in July 2023. Photo: Tamati Smith/Getty Images

Indigenous Sovereignty in Australia

This is not your land. After the defeat of a 2023 referendum on the inclusion of a First Nations Voice in parliament, Zoe Holman traces the claims to self-determination made by Indigenous peoples in Australia, culminating in today’s rallying call for Treaty.

Buy this magazine

Palestine Action activists occupy the roof of an Elbit Systems building in Bristol, Southwest England on 13 April 2021. Photo: Vladimir Morozov/Akxmedia/Alamy Stock Photo

Deadly trade

People across the world are standing up to the power of the arms trade. Amy Hall explores its threat to life and democracy.

Buy this magazine

Seth Mazibuko, left, served time in Robben Island for his role in leading the 1976 Soweto uprising. He says South Africa’s current president Cyril Ramaphosa, right, and much of the ANC leadership has been ‘found wanting’. Photo: Jacob Mawela

Africa’s pandora’s box

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.

Buy this magazine

An oil and gas drilling rig is towed past Teesside Offshore Wind farm off Redcar, North East England. The windfarm is operated by French state-owned energy company EDF. Photo: Alan Dawson/Alamy

Green face, old tricks

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.

Buy this magazine

Rush hour – Workers scurry speedily to their next destination. Since the 1970s, Singapore and Guangzhou, China have seen the highest increase in pedestrian walking speeds. Calls for effiency in mobility can often come back to bite us with reduced social empathy and ableist attitudes. Photo: Estherpoon/Shutterstock

The connection recession

Loneliness and social isolation have become chronic issues across the world. We must resist attempts to close down meaningful human interaction, writes Husna Ara.

Buy this magazine

India’s railways are frequently hailed by defenders of the British Empire as a positive legacy of colonialism. While the country has an extensive network which ranks among the world’s biggest employers, it was designed to serve the interests of imperialism and private profit – with the directors of the sub continent’s first railway drawn from the ranks of the East India Company. Here passengers prepare to eat on board a modern-day sleeper train. Photo: Boaz Rottem/Alamy

Back on track?

On every continent, the railways are experiencing a renaissance. But what will it take to reshape them in the interests of people? Conrad Landin investigates.

Buy this magazine


From the archives

A selection of articles from the New Internationalist magazine archives.

On the frontline:  Members of the  All-Polish Women Strike blockade a far-right extremists’ march last August , in Warsaw. Photo: Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty Images

Polish women counter Nazis on the streets

Women are playing an essential part in fighting for civil rights in Poland, contributing to a shift in the country’s political agenda, writes Benedetta Leardini

Buy this magazine

An Eritrean teenager stuck in Shagarab refugee camp, Sudan. Is EU money keeping him there? Photo: Sally Hayden

Between Sudan and a hard place

Eritrean refugees who try to escape into neighbouring Sudan are caught up in a deadly stand-off between East Africa’s big powers – as European Union (EU) money aimed at keeping them there continues to roll in all the while writes Sally Hayden.

Buy this magazine

Nightlife vs Nazis

Nightlife vs Nazis

Tbilisi’s clubbing scene is in the crosshairs of a war on culture led by reactionary elements in Georgia, opposed to its progressive ethos.

Buy this magazine

Mixed Media: Film

Mixed Media: Film

To a Land Unknown; The Fire Inside.

Buy this magazine

Books Essay: Sleepwalking to submission

Books Essay: Sleepwalking to submission

A veteran economist lifts the lid on the perils of international aid. By Graeme Green.

Buy this magazine

Mixed Media: Music

Mixed Media: Music

Inner Spaces; Entre Tus Flores.

Buy this magazine

 Illustration: Sarah John

Threats that silence

Amid arrests, harassment and violence, Sophie Neiman reflects on the plight of journalists in Uganda.

Buy this magazine

 Photo courtesy of WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education)

Making Waves: Sakena Yacoobi

Veronique Mistiaen meets Afghanistan’s ‘mother of education’, who for more than two decades has been transforming lives through community-based learning.

Buy this magazine

 Photo: Elvis Barukcic / AFP / Getty

Hall of infamy: Milorad Dodik

Bosnian Co-President from Republika Srpska.

Buy this magazine

Political parties - The Facts

Political parties - The Facts

Membership, election year, and party types around the world.

Buy this magazine

Country Profile: Bolivia

The photos, facts, and politics of Bolivia.

Buy this magazine


Social media

Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram