Features

A timeline of modern internationalism from 1810 to 2018.

Yohann Koshy returns to the golden age of solidarity between Global South states and asks: what should a new internationalism look like?

Climate change is the salient symptom of a human world unwilling – or unable – to protect its own life. In this lyrical essay, Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik explains why learning to think ecologically will be a precious and indispensable tool for our times – and how our fight against catastrophic collapse can ultimately win a more beautiful world.

In a world buffeted by populist tides, Japan has avoided turbulence. Are there lessons to be learned? asks political scientist Tina Burrett.

A new app that helps Aboriginal people in Australia record police abuse is the latest intervention in a growing movement that uses filmed evidence to demand accountability. Ian Lloyd Neubauer reports.

Working on a documentary in the Andaman Sea prompted questions for Julian Sayarer about the way indigenous and nomadic peoples are represented in the West.

Revolt to Revolution - Art and Story by ILYA and Yohann Koshy.

International and local action resources and reading suggestions on Trade.

Vanessa Baird concludes with 14 ways – at least – towards a better global trade.

How the Global South is affected by the current trade turmoil – and old patterns of power.

In talks about trade, something vital is omitted: the environment.

China is making promises, but keeping them may be hard...

Lobbyists, chlorinated chicken and tricksy business in the fog of Brexit.

The beast that won’t lie down and die – the ISDS ‘investor protection’ racket is still with us, in all but name.

Enter the ‘new protectionism’ – and Trump’s trade wars.

The global free trade system is being battered like never before. Can any good come of it, asks Vanessa Baird in the first of an eight-article exploration?

In 1987, the British government contracted a passenger ferry to act as a floating immigration detention centre for Tamil refugees. Later that year a storm set the ship loose from its moorings. Felix Bazalgette reports on the the little-known story of exodus and empire that paved the way for the Windrush scandal.

As 25 November marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Joni Seager maps the stark reality faced by women in every corner of the world – from Belarus to Brazil.

Art and story by ILYA, with Yohann Koshy.

As growth-driven consumer culture spurs on planetary destruction, why don’t we spring into action? Psychologist John F Schumaker situates a frightening erosion of human personality at the heart of the problem.