A protester uses a slingshot to hurl stones at the Gaza border on 25 October 2019 during the Great March of Return. The year long protest movement saw thousands of Palestinians march towards the border to demand the right of return to their ancestral homelands. In response Israeli soldiers killed 223 Palestinian protesters.Photo: Ismael Mohamad/UPI/Alamy Live News

Between the sword and the neck

Palestinian resistance lives in the rifle, the pen, the olive tree and the memory of the land, writes Tahrir Hamdi.

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NI 558 - Gaza - November, 2025
Palestinian politician Khalida Jarrar is lifted up by jubilant supporters in Tulkarem, West Bank, after her release from an Israeli jail on 3 June 2016. Jarrar has been repeatedly imprisoned without charge or trial in Israel’s prison regime.Photo: Nedal Eshtayah/APA Images/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News

Life on the Inside

Veteran political prisoner Khalida Jarrar was released during January’s brief ceasefire agreement. Speaking to Louis Brehony, she reflects on life and resistance behind bars.

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NI 558 - Gaza - November, 2025
These illustrations come from Palestinian artist Maisara Baroud’s series ‘I’m still alive’, a visual daily diary from Gaza. Amid Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, he posts a drawing each day to tell friends and families he’s alive. His stark images document displacement, bombardment, fear and the struggle to protect loved ones – capturing both war crimes and endurance, from the stoic figure standing in a bombed out street during Ramadan, to those holding onto their homes in every sense.Illustrations: Maisara Baroud

The Genesis of Palestinian Resistance

Ramzy Baroud traces key events in the Palestinian struggle for liberation.

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NI 558 - Gaza - November, 2025
Five small ways to resist

Five small ways to resist

Resisting the far right surge. Words by Paula Lacey & Bethany Rielly.

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NI 557 - The global far right - September, 2025
A mural outside Malgrat de Mar train station commemorates the 1937 sinking of the Ciudad de Barcelona by fascist forces. The attack, carried out by a Mussolini submarine, killed at least 60 international volunteers on their way to join the fight against Franco in the Spanish Civil War.Photo: Bethany Rielly

Snapshots of resistance

Around the world, ordinary people are pushing back against the influence of the far right. Bethany Rielly looks at the work of three organizations using culture and conversation to counter hate in their communities.

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NI 557 - The global far right - September, 2025
Photo: Collectif Antigone

The Interview: Jacob Pirro

‘People are very angry’. Canadian climate activist Jacob Pirro meets Paula Lacey to discuss being locked up for taking direct action, and what motivates him.

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NI 554 - Indigenous sovereignty in Australia - March, 2025
Illustrations: Raven

‘Life is at a turning point’

Inside the resistance - four people on the frontlines of the anti-coup movement tell Preeti Jha why they are not giving up. Illustrations by Raven.

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NI 532 - Courage and terror in Myanmar - July, 2021
Citizens take part in the high-profile 2020 French climate assembly, whose proposals should help shape their country’s policies towards a zero-carbon future.Photo: Katrin Baumann

Defibrillating democracy

Rich Wilson and Claire Mellier explain how citizens’ assemblies have the potential to restart the beating heart of democracy.

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NI 530 - Democracy on the edge - March, 2021
Women in Qamishlo, the de facto capital of Rojava, protest against a Turkish-Russian deal that threatens them and the gains of their revolution.Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty

Unbowed

Turkey wants to undo the revolution in North and East Syria. But the women of Rojava are resisting, writes Dilar Dirik.

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NI 526 - The Kurds - betrayed again - July, 2020
Protestors celebrate the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes from the University of Cape Town, April 2015.Photo: Desmond Bowles under a CC licence

Over the rainbow

A new generation of black activists in South Africa don’t have the ‘patience’ of their parents. Chris Webb looks at how the education system has become a flashpoint of struggle.

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NI 509 - What's left for the young? - January, 2018

Indonesian flight-path farmers pushed out

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

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NI 506 - Brazil's soft coup - October, 2017
The spirit of creative resistence is strong in the Rio favela of Maré. But Brazil is suffering a ‘genocide’ of black youth.Photo: Vanessa Baird

‘We have a lot to teach the city’

What does ‘the state’ mean to you if you are poor or black or both? Vanessa Baird reports on life down-and-out in post-coup São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro

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NI 506 - Brazil's soft coup - October, 2017
Photo: Brian D. Bumby/Alamy Stock Photo

Trump can be beaten because he is the Establishment

We must respond with a genuine vision for ending the corrupt politics of privilege, writes Mark Engler.

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NI 499 - African village - January, 2017
Bitter grapes sweeten in South Africa

Bitter grapes sweeten in South Africa

Peter Kenworthy on a striking success for wine workers.

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NI 499 - African village - January, 2017
Photo: Daniel Gluskoter/Associated Press

Acts of conscience on bended knee

Mark Engler reflects on how one man's protest made waves around the US.

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NI 498 - The coming war on China - December, 2016
Photo: Seth Wenig/AP/Press Association Images

A word with Gloria Steinem

The feminist pioneer talks to Graeme Green about travel, change and the road ahead.

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NI 492 - Technology justice - May, 2016

Regulation Top Trumps

TTIP is a very dangerous game, writes Chris Coltrane.

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NI 492 - Technology justice - May, 2016
Banished Petroleum

Banished Petroleum

Jess Worth reports on a victory for campaigners wanting BP out of the arts.

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NI 492 - Technology justice - May, 2016
Moving mountains: in March, trucks began clearing nine months' worth of accumulated rubbish.Photo: Bilal Hussein/AP/Press Association Images

Government garbage U-turn in Lebanon

The sanitation crisis is over, but the government faces further challenges, writes Habib Battah.

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NI 492 - Technology justice - May, 2016
Seattle, home of the 1999 WTO protests, campaigning for internet freedom in 2015.Photo: Backbone Campaign under a CC Licence

Claiming our victories

Don't listen to the cynics - Mark Engler thinks activists should pat themselves on the back.

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NI 491 - Last stand - Saving the world's forests - April, 2016

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Gaza November, 2025
Gaza November, 2025
Gaza November, 2025
The global far right September, 2025
The global far right September, 2025
Indigenous sovereignty in Australia March, 2025
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
Democracy on the edge March, 2021
The Kurds - betrayed again July, 2020
What's left for the young? January, 2018
Brazil's soft coup October, 2017
Brazil's soft coup October, 2017
African village January, 2017
African village January, 2017
The coming war on China December, 2016
Technology justice May, 2016
Technology justice May, 2016
Technology justice May, 2016
Technology justice May, 2016
Last stand - Saving the world's forests April, 2016
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