Chris Brazier looks back over a career as a co-editor that stretches back to 1984, remembering highlights and dark moments from Nicaragua to Vietnam, South Africa to Western Sahara and Burkina Faso.
Swagata Yadavar traces the ups and downs in the history of vaccination.
Key events in recent Kurdish history.
The country’s political class is letting fascists off the hook and allowing history to be distorted. Jelena Prtorić asks: Whose purposes does this serve?
Poverty between – and within – nations doesn’t just exist. It is created and needs constant maintenance. Warning: extremely violent content. Words: Dinyar Godrej.
1947 by Elisabeth Åsbrink; The Death of Homo Economicus by Peter Fleming; Of Women by Shami Chakrabarti; With Ash on Their Faces by Cathy Otten.
Recent events have thrust Catalonia into the global spotlight. Kevin Buckland tells the background story we don’t get to hear – about co-operatives, ‘fearless cities’ and the real challenges to authoritarian capitalism.
Argentina’s ups and downs since 1946.
A mythical place – land of the frozen ocean, the aurora borealis and the midnight sun.
The fighting, the pain and the hunger for change
Popular rebellion has often accompanied oppressive taxation. Almost all the protests were against taxes that ignored the ability to pay. Here are just a few examples.
A history of the eternal fate of taxation: to be the abused or abusive means towards noble or ignoble ends, never quite able to escape its association with extortion and war.
Article title | From magazine | Publication date |
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New Internationalist: the first 50 years – and the next | Vaccine equality | May, 2021 |
A history of vaccines | Vaccine equality | May, 2021 |
100 years of hope, struggle and betrayal | The Kurds - betrayed again | July, 2020 |
Why won’t Croatia face its past? | The fight for clean air | May, 2020 |
A brief history of impoverishment | How we make poverty | March, 2020 |
Mixed Media: Books | Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent | December, 2017 |
Homage to Catalonia | Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent | December, 2017 |
A short history of coups, crises and Peronism | Argentina's challenge | June, 2013 |
The Arctic: a history | Surviving change in the Arctic | July, 2009 |
A brief history of Afghanistan | Through Afghan eyes | November, 2008 |
Rebels with a cause | Wanted! For dodging tax justice | October, 2008 |
A short history of TAXATION | Wanted! For dodging tax justice | October, 2008 |