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May 2007's Issue
Visionary voices: the people, the ideas, the action.
For our 400th edition, the NI unfurls a tapestry of ideas and activism from the Majority World. Engaged with the here and now in order to build for a better future, burnishing hope amid downturns and defeats, these are voices we feel you will want to hear.
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Featured in issue 400
The making of an Islamic Jack the Ripper
View from Gujranwala – Abbas Zaidi tells the chilling story of an Islamic Jack the Ripper.
- Abbas Zaidi
- 1 May 2007
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Goodbye Bafana
A film taken from a book by a white guy who knew an African leader – sounds familiar?
- Malcolm Lewis
- 1 May 2007
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The Corporation that Changed the World
How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational
- Mari Marcel Thekaekara
- 1 May 2007
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L’Oreal Took My Home
Monica Waitzfelder’s true story of her family’s suffering during and after World War Two
- Peter Whittaker
- 1 May 2007
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Graffiti My Soul
Veerapen Prendrapen – half Jewish, half Tamil – is the fastest runner in his school
- Peter Whittaker
- 1 May 2007
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‘I don’t believe in love marriages’
An Indian serial kidnapper interviewed.
- Dionne Bunsha
- 1 May 2007
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The Dhal Puri Queue
Lindsey Collen drops in to a street summit while waiting for a tasty snack.
- Lindsey Collen
- 1 May 2007
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Mauritania votes
In March this year the West African country of Mauritania held its first open and fair election in decades
- 1 May 2007
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Special status for Srebrenica
Several hundred returnees claim Srebrenica should be excluded from the jurisdiction of Republika Srpska.
- 1 May 2007
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Be careful who you sleep with
Billionaire insurance mogul Maurice ‘Hank’ Greenberg was charged with fraud and insurance and securities violations
- 1 May 2007
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Occupation and the mind
Samah Jabr counts the cost to Palestinians’ mental health.
- Samah Jabr
- 1 May 2007
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Continental shift
Carlos M Vilas gauges the gains of people’s politics in Latin America.
- Carlos M Vilas
- 1 May 2007
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Pump up the volume
Radio revolution in Zambia, Malawi and Namibia.
- Walter Otis Tapfumaneyi
- 1 May 2007
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Folk Songs for the Five Points
History of a city shaped by immigrant memory and musical culture
- Louise Gray
- 1 May 2007
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Segu Blue
West African Bassekou Kouyate and Mali’s first traditional lute quartet
- Louise Gray
- 1 May 2007
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On Newsstands
Trade unions: rebuild, renew, resist
Trade unions
A relic of a bygone era – or a billion-strong social movement fighting for workers’ rights everywhere? The reality of trade unionism today falls somewhere in between. In the Western world, union-busting laws, globalization and internal conflicts have left many trade unions reeling. In some countries of the Global South, trade unionists face discrimination, danger and even death. Meanwhile, workers’ rights are being sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed gone mad: zero-contract hours, sub-contracting, privatization, outsourcing and special economic zones are all part of a ‘race to the bottom’ being run by transnationals concerned only about their profits.Yet all is not lost. From Colombia to China, Bangladesh to Barcelona, workers are still fighting for their rights – and, sometimes, winning. This issue, New Internationalist looks at the state of the unions, how they need to adapt to the new reality for workers in the 21st century, and why they are more important than ever.
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Smiley-faced monopolists
For Facebook, Amazon and Google, we have traded our privacy for something we find useful and put on hold our support for ethical shopping in exchange for the ease of low (or no) price and almost-instant gratification. This month's magazine looks at just how far down the line we are and asks how deeply exploitative and anti-democratic is this new ‘surveillance capitalism’ under which we now live. This month’s contributors include security expert Bruce Schneier, psychologist Robert Epstein and engineer and software activist Prabir Purkayastha.
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