…the two-year-old New Internationalist attempted to answer a question that it sensed its readers were already asking. The cover mocked up the front page of a newspaper called The Daily World, full of headlines such as ‘10,000 die in famine’ and ‘$685m spent on arms in last 24 hours’. If you opened up the ‘magazine’, you found a newspaper twice the size that was completely dedicated to profiling people and organizations taking action all over the world, exemplars providing their own practical answer to the eternal question ‘Yes, but what can I do?’
The actual contents are, of course, of limited interest to us four decades on – unless to marvel at the length of hair of the men pictured or to wonder how on earth the NI staff in 1975 managed to pull together such a vast project for a regular monthly issue (150 articles from all over the world in the days of snail mail and telex).
