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Bangladesh is home to almost five million garment workers, making it the second largest manufacturer of garments in the world. Its factory workers make the clothes we wear every day. Meet the humans behind the big clothing brand labels.
Simple models by India’s ‘science magician’, Arvind Gupta, are making learning fun for young minds around the world. Priti Salian reports from a classroom in Bangalore.
The clock is ticking for peace in Colombia. Next month a ceasefire with the ELN, the last remaining leftwing guerrilla organization in the country, is due to run out. Guerrilla leader Pablo Beltrán of Colombia’s ELN talks to Mónica del Pilar Uribe Marín.
Port Augusta had long been South Australia’s coal-fired powerhouse. But a five-year-long community campaign has delivered solar success and an end to the smokestacks, reports Dan Spencer.
With the Great Barrier Reef and climate targets under threat, Tom Anderson and Eliza Egret explain why this mega mine matters to all of us.
Recent events have thrust Catalonia into the global spotlight. Kevin Buckland tells the background story we don’t get to hear – about co-operatives, ‘fearless cities’ and the real challenges to authoritarian capitalism.
Grassroots environmentalists are being violently targeted in Latin America. Leny Olivera and Sian Cowman believe there is something we can do about it.
Activist Scott Weinstein dances with the terrorist label and finds it a fickle partner.
A group of political strategists gathers to brainstorm ways to remove democratic impediments to the plans of their political bosses. Text by Richard Swift, illustration by Jonathan Williams.
Mandeep Tiwana sorts through the many cloaks of authoritarianism donned by the political class as repression becomes the rule rather than the exception.
Turkish writer and analyst Hakki Mahfuz summarize the twists and turns that landed Turkey where it is today.
İştar Gözaydın was a professor of law and politics in Turkey. Until her government decided she was a terrorist. She tells her story.
The current clampdown on popular rights mirrors a profound malaise with our system of top-down political representation, argues Richard Swift.
Mark Engler asks why it only takes a bit of a bomb-dropping and sabre-rattling to rally the reporters and bestow a presidential aura on our leaders.
This month, we review The White Book, by Han Kang; Red Famine, by Anne Applebaum; The Rage, by Julia Ebner and The City Always Wins by Omar Robert Hamilton.
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The lives behind the label | Bangladesh is home to almost five million garment workers, making it the second largest manufacturer of garments in the world. Its factory workers make the clothes we wear every day. Meet the humans behind the big clothing brand labels. |
December, 2017 | 508 | Read | |
Toys from trash | Simple models by India’s ‘science magician’, Arvind Gupta, are making learning fun for young minds around the world. Priti Salian reports from a classroom in Bangalore. |
Priti Salian | December, 2017 | 508 | Read |
Guerrillas gamble for peace | The clock is ticking for peace in Colombia. Next month a ceasefire with the ELN, the last remaining leftwing guerrilla organization in the country, is due to run out. Guerrilla leader Pablo Beltrán of Colombia’s ELN talks to Mónica del Pilar Uribe Marín. |
Monica Pilar Uribe Marin | December, 2017 | 508 | Read |
...Port Augusta gives coal the boot | Port Augusta had long been South Australia’s coal-fired powerhouse. But a five-year-long community campaign has delivered solar success and an end to the smokestacks, reports Dan Spencer. |
Dan Spencer | December, 2017 | 508 | Read |
While the world’s largest coal mine gets the go ahead… | With the Great Barrier Reef and climate targets under threat, Tom Anderson and Eliza Egret explain why this mega mine matters to all of us. |
Tom Anderson and Eliza Egret | December, 2017 | 508 | Read |
Homage to Catalonia | Recent events have thrust Catalonia into the global spotlight. Kevin Buckland tells the background story we don’t get to hear – about co-operatives, ‘fearless cities’ and the real challenges to authoritarian capitalism. |
Kevin Buckland | December, 2017 | 508 | Read |
Defame, criminalize, murder | Grassroots environmentalists are being violently targeted in Latin America. Leny Olivera and Sian Cowman believe there is something we can do about it. |
Leny Olivera and Sian Cowman | December, 2017 | 508 | Read |
Are we all terrorists? | Activist Scott Weinstein dances with the terrorist label and finds it a fickle partner. |
Scott Weinstein | December, 2017 | 508 | Read |
Colonizing civil society | A group of political strategists gathers to brainstorm ways to remove democratic impediments to the plans of their political bosses. Text by Richard Swift, illustration by Jonathan Williams. |
Richard Swift | December, 2017 | 508 | Read |
You will agree: escalating repression | Mandeep Tiwana sorts through the many cloaks of authoritarianism donned by the political class as repression becomes the rule rather than the exception. |
Mandeep Tiwana | December, 2017 | 508 | Read |
How Turkey’s citizens lost their rights | Turkish writer and analyst Hakki Mahfuz summarize the twists and turns that landed Turkey where it is today. |
Hakki Mahfuz | December, 2017 | 508 | Read |
From lectern to prison | İştar Gözaydın was a professor of law and politics in Turkey. Until her government decided she was a terrorist. She tells her story. |
İştar Gözaydın | December, 2017 | 508 | Read |
Whose streets? | The current clampdown on popular rights mirrors a profound malaise with our system of top-down political representation, argues Richard Swift. |
Richard Swift | December, 2017 | 508 | Read |
The dangerous dignity of war | Mark Engler asks why it only takes a bit of a bomb-dropping and sabre-rattling to rally the reporters and bestow a presidential aura on our leaders. |
Mark Engler | November, 2017 | 507 | Buy |
Mixed Media: Books | This month, we review The White Book, by Han Kang; Red Famine, by Anne Applebaum; The Rage, by Julia Ebner and The City Always Wins by Omar Robert Hamilton. |
New Internationalist Editorial | November, 2017 | 507 | Buy |