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Abdoulie Ceesay, Gambian representative to the COP28 climate summit, argues if the West wants to address the wave of coups in Africa, it must take real climate action – rather than pursuing further failed militarization.

Natasha Ion reports on how Gabès residents are taking on Tunisia’s phosphate industry, despite the odds stacked against them.

The Indian state’s determination to promote Kashmir as a tourist destination is part of a larger strategy to legitimize its continued military occupation, writes Pranay Somayajula.

In the last of our series celebrating NI at 50, Debbie Taylor argues that women are imprisoned by domestic work.

Pervasive surveillance is Big Tech’s bread and butter. To break free, we must build a new World Wide Web beyond capitalism, argues Juan Ortiz Freuler.

Your counter-surveillance guide.

In Los Angeles, a group of activists are standing up against police surveillance of their neighbourhoods. Bethany Rielly speaks to Hamid Khan and Matyos Kidane of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition about what it means to take on one of the US’s most powerful forces.

Taj Ali explores how the retail titan has turned its dystopian systems of surveillance onto striking workers.

Israel is at the forefront of the booming spyware industry that threatens human rights, press freedom and democracy worldwide. Antony Loewenstein examines spyware’s role in Israel’s occupation of Palestine, and why governments are failing to reign in its insidious spread.

Since seizing power in 2021, Myanmar’s military junta has expanded its use of surveillance to hunt down and jail its critics. Preeti Jha reports on the methods it employs and how anti-coup activists are adapting to the shrinking space for dissent.

Action, and further reading on surveillance.

Bethany Rielly explores the chilling impact of the Spanish state’s intrusive surveillance tactics against Catalan civil society. Is there a chance of justice?

From the archive: New Internationalist’s first ever issue, in March 1973, arrived amid escalating tensions in southern Africa, with Ian Smith’s white-ruled Rhodesia imposing a blockade on neighbouring Zambia.

At least 500 people have drowned in the Mediterranean in a single incident, just the latest in increasingly normalized disasters. Yet in the Western political milieu, it made barely a ripple. Nanjala Nyabola asks why migration policies have become so deadly, and what it will take to change them.

Guatemala may have made progress in trying to hold people to account for abuses of power, but with so many tragic cases languishing in the courts, Mira Galanova explores what’s getting in the way of justice.

Tarushi Aswani on how the Indian government is using the language of decolonization to promote its own form of rightwing nationalism.

Decolonizing Africa’s media means interrogating its form as well as its content. Patrick Gathara examines an initiative which tells narrative stories through live performance in Kenya, and asks what lessons it holds for the continent at large.

Carlos Edill Berríos Polanco reports on the growing movement to get the Global North to cough up for its climate debt.

The push for repair emanates from movements with a rich and varied history. Priya Lukka explores where we’ve come from and what could be ahead.

Barbados took the plunge and ditched the British monarchy two years ago. Has anything really changed since? Amy Hall reports.