In Modi's India, dissent is dangerous
In Modi’s India, dissent is dangerous, writes Nilanjana Bhowmick.
Ways of belonging
Having travelled to the land of her birth as the coronavirus pandemic began to gather pace, Yewande Omotoso feels the tug of home.
Can I criticize fast fashion without sounding ‘out of touch’?
Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.
Spotlight: Kishon Khan
Musical traveller Kishon Khan talks to Subi Shah about the levelling ability of the arts.
The case for nature
As the alarm sounds on the sixth mass extinction, Dinyar Godrej squares up to what we need to do to avert it.
India’s opioid paradox
Sick people are dying in pain thanks to the misguided ‘war on drugs’, writes Martin Drewry.
Whatever you think of Maduro, ‘regime change’ is up to Venezuelans – not the US
Venezuela’s a mess, but that gives no right to interfere writes Vanessa Baird
Who owns the sea?
Vanessa Baird examines the free-for-all consensus when it comes to the world’s oceans, and its implications for our future.
The alternative book review
Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith; The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter; Silicon Values by Jillian C York; Abolishing the Police edited by Koshka Duff.
Is trade in turmoil a chance for justice?
The global free trade system is being battered like never before. Can any good come of it, asks Vanessa Baird in the first of an eight-article exploration?
‘You’ve done nothing!’
Stephanie Boyd reports from the Peruvian Amazon on the fight to get adequate healthcare that respects indigenous tradition.
Could the Left take power in Colombia?
With the South American country closer than ever to electing a leftwing government, Nick MacWilliam explores what it could mean for peace and human rights.
Labour knocks out a radical new vision for development
Hazel Healy gives five reasons as to why Labour's new development policy paper is worth celebrating.
Fiji: really a tropical island paradise?
Inclusive rhetoric by Fiji’s PM is belied by police repression, reports Wame Valentine.
Hall of infamy: Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
Despite mass unemployment and a deep food crisis, Turkmenistan’s image-obsessed president claims poverty does not exist in his country.
How Lula's imprisonment is uniting workers in Brazil
Michael Fox reports on the growing mobilization of workers against austerity, privatization and repression in Brazil.
Protests continue in Nicaragua
Social security reforms have triggered an unprecedented wave of anger against the government. Dánae Vílchez reports.
Country profile: Ukraine
Written well before Russia’s recent invasion, this 2020 profile of Ukraine, by Bennett Murray, provides context to the often-raised issue of fascism in the country.
Israel’s ejection of international observers leaves Palestinians defenceless
Barnaby Papadopulos speaks to Hebron’s Palestinian’s about the expulsion of international observers.
The trouble with normal is it always gets worse
A clamour to return to the status quo after Covid-19 would be bad news for people and the planet, argues Richard Swift. We may never get a better chance for a new normal.
Have economists changed since the 2008 crash?
The economics profession was partly to blame for the financial meltdown of 2007-08. Cédric Durand asks whether anything has changed.
Was Mugabe better?
In Zimbabwe, a deteriorating economic situation, coupled with renewed repression, is tempting ordinary citizens to think they were better off under Robert Mugabe. Cyril Zenda reports.
