Issue 495 of New Internationalist

September 2016

Trade unions: rebuild, renew, resist

A relic of a bygone era – or a billion-strong social movement fighting for workers’ rights everywhere?

From the changing workplace to zero-hours contracts, precarious working and outsourcing: workers are open to extreme exploitation...

The factory collapse in 2013 caused an international outcry – but have labour conditions improved? Thulsi Narayanasamy reports...

Polyp's monthly cartoon.

Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy by Ece Temelkuran; The Seamstress and the Wind by César Aira; Remembering Akbar by Behrooz...

UN peacekeeping is big business, but is it achieving its aims? asks Louisa Waugh.

NYN by Kristi Stassinopoulou and Stathis Kalyviotis; ‘They Will Kill You, If You Cry’ by Khmer Rouge Survivors.

The latest view from the US, by Mark Engler.

Around the world, trade unions are facing fierce repression. But workers are still uniting to stand up for their rights and, in...

Seven years after the end of the civil war, Jo Eckersley and Ashwin Hemmathagama assess Sri Lanka’s progress.

Labour rights in post-socialist countries such as Russia, China and Vietnam are being fought for from outside, not within,...

The Lovers and the Despot, directed and written by Ross Adam and Robert Cannan; The Confession, directed by Ashish Ghadiali.