Articles by Jeremy Seabrook

‘The book is based on a simple proposition – that the opposite of poverty is not wealth, but sufficiency. As long as the pursuit of more continues to outrun the desire for a stable security, poverty must persist.’

Jeremy Seabrook meets Mohammad Kamal Uddin, who has worked tirelessly for two decades to transform people’s lives in Bangladesh.

Gopal Mitra experienced the violence and tragedy of Kashmir firsthand, but is hopeful of a peaceful future, as Jeremy Seabrook discovers.

Even global warming is being used for economic gain. But we can’t buy ourselves out of ruin, argues Jeremy Seabrook.

A red-green revival is possible, argues Jeremy Seabrook.

Jeremy Seabrook visits Bangladesh to better understand the roots of child labour.

It’s not just ‘change’ that follows from this week’s public display of contrition by the powerful.

Jeremy Seabrook on how bogus environmentalism is threatening some of India’s best friends of the environment.

Jeremy Seabrook ventures inside a night shelter in India’s capital city.

America’s love affair with universal democracy is not quite as it seems, according to regular NI contributor, Jeremy Seabrook.

Governments often speak of ‘poverty’ or ‘deprivation’ as among the root causes of terrorism. There is much rhetoric about addressing basic issues, which, it is believed, create fertile terrain for fundamentalists and extremists.

The Servant Problem by Rosie Cox

The disaster in New Orleans shows the US poor to be a world apart, believes Jeremy Seabrook.

The dead language that keeps poverty alive, by Jeremy Seabrook.

Jeremy Seabrook uncovers his own roots in a now-lost industrial culture to track how the world has been dazzled and damaged by consumerism.

Jeremy Seabrook explains how the global economy is driving both rich and poor into an insecure future.

Defending the forests entails challenging aid and NGOs as well as local governments, says Indian campaigner Pandurang Hegde.

Jeremy Seabrook draws an unholy line from the obscene imagery of Abu Ghraib to the growing repression in Bangladesh.

Jeremy Seabrook counts the emotional costs to migrant labour in a globalized world.

Exiled Iraqi activist Haifa Zangana has her say on the war.

The labour movement has seen revolution, reform and apparent defeat. But the best is yet to come, argues Jeremy Seabrook.