NI 542 - March, 2023

A world to win

A note from the editor

Futures of our making

At the heart of most struggles for justice is the desire for a better world – immediately, and for future generations. That second part is the most challenging. As prison abolitionists Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes have written, we often need a ‘jailbreak of the imagination’ to be able to see our transformation and escape from the ‘false sense of inevitability’ that can stop us achieving it.

As New Internationalist turns 50, we’ve set our sights on 2073 – what kind of world do we hope to see when we hit our centenary? And what are the pathways to get there? This edition offers some glimpses of that future, with one foot firmly in the present.

We’ve also been mining the archive for some of New Internationalist’s best bits, of which we will bring you a selection throughout the rest of 2023. This time it’s a prescient piece from the Global Warming magazine, published in 1990 – a time when much of the conversation around climate change was focused on whether it was real, and whether humans had anything to do with it.

Also in this edition, Tarushi Aswani on the Indian Right’s attempt to erase the country’s Islamic history, and Rahila Gupta explores Jineolojî – the precepts of gender equality that inform the Kurdish women’s freedom struggle.

We’ll leave you with the much-quoted, but ever-hopeful words of writer Arundhati Roy: ‘Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.’

Amy Hall for the New Internationalist co-operative.
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The big story

A study of 10,000 young people across 10 countries found 45 per cent said climate change ‘negatively affected their daily life and functioning’. The impact was significantly higher in the four Global South countries surveyed: Brazil, Nigeria, the Philippines and India.

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NI 542 - March, 2023

A world to win

A note from the editor

Futures of our making

The big story

We don’t just need solutions – we need the courage to imagine they will succeed. Conrad Landin makes the case for collective action to secure a just future.

The Big Story

The pandemic years were the pivot for a rapid shift bringing a better new world into being. Andrew Simms travels through time.

Fungi have been touted as an alternative to plastics – but it’s dangerous to see them solely as a product, argues Emma McKeever.

Could a Kenyan court case point the way towards a more just tax system? Amy Hall investigates.

The ghost of Dinyar Godrej looks back from 2073 to see how personal revolutions built a society that is truly social.

Nick Dowson looks to the future of democracy – and considers how we can make it our own.

Wales is pioneering a law supposed to ensure that public organizations protect future generations, as well as the living. Rebecca Wilks explores the results so far.

Art does not simply reflect the world – but frames and shapes our future. A meditation by the Raqs Media Collective.

In India, a Hindu supremacist government is intent on erasing the country’s Islamic history. Tarushi Aswani reports.

Around the world, people are chanting ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ in solidarity with the women’s uprising in Iran – dubbing it the ‘first feminist revolution in the world’. Not so, argues Rahila Gupta, as she examines its precursor: a Kurdish feminist revolution in Rojava.

Opinion

Antisocial media by Rosebell Kagumire.

Champions by Leonardo Sakamoto.

Leading the way on abortion rights by Nilanjana Bhowmick.

Currents

Report on the landless workers’ movement in Brazil by Constance Malleret.

There is a ‘new gun’ on the Republican far right.

Futura D’Aprile reports on the upcoming elections in Turkey.

Report on Spain's democracy by Alessio Perrone.

Peru is no stranger to the violent quelling of protest – but events of recent times have shocked the world with their brutality.

Where the debt-ridden and desperate come to heal from kidney donation surgery, by Subi Shah.

Asma Hafiz reports on surveillance in India.

Rod Melted; Ticket To Ride; Daddy Rule.

Regulars

Praise, blame and all points in between? Give us your feedback.

Stephanie Boyd on a beautiful farewell in Peru’s southern Andes.

Racist excuses by Alessio Perrone.

Slopestyle philanthropy, by Husna Ara.

Rough sleepers vs education.

Trade unionists protest against the UK government’s proposed anti-strike laws in London, 30 January 2023.

Attack on Brazilian Democracy by Thiago Lucas (Brazil).

ILYA and Jamie Kelsey-Fry imagine the world in 2073 – when, in spite of 21st century capitalism’s best efforts, things have actually turned out alright.

The photos, facts, and politics of Moldova.

How to fight the climate clampdown. Words by Danny Chivers.

Mass communication technologies by Marc Roberts.

The 19-year-old climate activist is making her voice heard across South Africa and beyond. She speaks with Uyapo Majahana about climate anxiety, life lessons and getting beyond tokenism.

Illustration by Kate Evans.

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

Putin’s private army.

Dogma by P J Polyp.

Crossword Puzzle, Association Words and Wordsearch.

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. This month: Income vs ethics.

Social media were not for profit? Nick Dowson imagines a different world of online communities that puts our needs first.

Film, Book & Music Reviews

Abyss; Call and Response; The Heart of Our Earth; Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Centre of the World.

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom; Joyland.

Being; The Land, the Water, the Sky.

Multi-award winning filmmaker. Words by Grace Livingstone

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