There’s revolution in the capital. But will it touch the lives of Memnatu and the villagers of Salmaga, far away? A short story by Chris Brazier, inspired by people he came to know in Burkina Faso in 1985.
October 2006's Issue
From Bucharest to Berlin there is an unease spreading across Europe. A feeling is catching hold that things are ‘out of control’. The great hopes for a peaceful and prosperous post-war Europe are in peril. Hostility to things European is everywhere. The European Constitution is down the tubes. People no longer bother to vote in elections for the European Parliament. The EU is held to blame for a wide variety of ills from bureaucratic meddling to a lack of accountability. So who is to blame? NI tackles the big questions facing Europe. Can the EU be democratic? Under what conditions should new members be added? What is good about European society? How can this best be defended? And is Britain really part of Europe or simply a US Trojan horse? We look at a growing resistance, this time not from nationalist Colonel Blimps or mindless xenophobes, but from those convinced that if Europe is to survive it must be based on democracy and social inclusion.
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Whose Europe? Our Europe!
Susan George mounts a spirited defence of social Europe.
- Susan George
- 1 Oct 2006
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Dictatorship of no alternatives
Richard Swift dissects the corporate takeover of the European Union.
- Richard Swift
- 1 Oct 2006
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Uganda
Tourism of the more adventurous kind is increasingly common in Uganda – tracking mountain gorillas, or rafting on the Nile, but to many outsiders Uganda’s claim to fame is still little more than Idi Amin, the jovial but brutal dictator.
- Wairagala Wakabi
- 1 Oct 2006
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Interview with Hernando Hernandez Tapasco about surviving as an activist in war-torn Colombia
Being a human rights activist in Colombia can be murder, but that hasn’t stopped Hernando Hernandez Tapasco.
- David Ransom
- 1 Oct 2006
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Polyp's Big Bad World - October 2006
Bedtime prayers of infamous co-dependents from Polyp.
The Old Lady and New Europe
Horatio Morpurgo unearths the seeds of future discord in Romania and Bulgaria.
- Horatio Morpurgo
- 1 Oct 2006
- 0
Coca and society in Chapare
Grassroots politics goes mainstream in Bolivia. Photo essay by Jorge Uzón.
- Jorge Uzón
- 1 Oct 2006
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Aux armes, citoyens!
The French provide a good example on how to say ‘non’. Veronique Mistiaen finds out why.
- Veronique Mistiaen
- 1 Oct 2006
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Caste and quotas
Urvashi Butalia on why there’s no level playing field when it comes to ‘merit’ in India.
- Urvashi Butalia
- 1 Oct 2006
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Shahadat Parvez
A song of the soul from Dhaka, Bangladesh, clicked by Shahadat Parvez.
- Shahadat Parvez
- 1 Oct 2006
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Sisters in Law
Sisters in Law directed by Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi
- Malcolm Lewis
- 1 Oct 2006
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Scarred: Experiments with violence in Gujarat
Scarred: Experiments with violence in Gujarat by Dionne Bunsha
- Dinyar Godrej
- 1 Oct 2006
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Bad cop, worse cop
John Hilary issues a warning about European concern for the world’s poor.
- John Hilary
- 1 Oct 2006
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Falling Through the Earth
Falling Through the Earth by Danielle Trussoni
- Peter Whittaker
- 1 Oct 2006
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To Barcelona or Hell
Sharif Gemie on a dangerous migration fuelled by desperation.
- Sharif Gemie
- 1 Oct 2006
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Worth fighting for
Sweden’s has a record of going its own way. Peter Gustavsson wants to keep it that way.
- Peter Gustavsson
- 1 Oct 2006
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