The alternative film review
Malcolm Lewis on Mandabi directed and written by Ousmane Sembène, and Sweat directed and written by Magnus von Horn.
Is my daughter’s pro-Palestine activism turning antisemitic?
Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle
Explosive mix
As big international players eye up Mozambique’s natural gas reserves, a storm of conflict brews for local communities. Sophie Neiman investigates.
10 steps to world peace
Hazel Healy examines the ways in which humankind can ditch the military habit - and tackle conflict at its roots
Climate justice from below for climate harms
The Bonn Climate Change Conference shows how top down processes will not bring about just solutions for the majority world, Harpreet Kaur Paul writes.
What’s next for Indians living under Modi?
Narendra Modi’s second mandate is a ‘sword hanging above the heads’ of India’s minorities. Nilanjana Bhowmick explains why.
After Isis
Most European countries refuse to repatriate the thousands of former ISIS foreign fighters and their families now held in Kurdish camps in Syria., but Kosovo is bringing its citizens home. Sara Manisera reports.
Progress and its discontents
According to Bill Gates, Steven Pinker and the like, the world has never been better and global poverty is shrinking. Jason Hickel calls their bluff.
Returning Indigenous ancestors home to New Zealand/Aotearoa
For centuries, museums have held human remains as artefacts. Hana Pera Aoake explored what can be learned from the programme driving the push to bring Māori and Moriori ancestors home?
China in charge
Yohann Koshy on the ironies and contradictions of what one day might be called the Chinese century.
Who is militarizing the South China Sea?
Mark J Valencia makes sense of the cauldron for conflict between China and its neighbours.
The nuts and bolts
Pay attention. Thomas Abraham gives a quick lesson on how the Covid-19 vaccines work.
Networked but commodified: digital labour in the remote gig economy
Research by Alex J. Wood, Mark Graham and others shows how gig economy platforms commodify labour in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Starving for the rights of Bahrain's prisoners
Bahraini activist Ali Mushaima is on his 37th day of a hunger strike, outside the Bahraini embassy in London. Andrew Smith reports
China: a post-neoliberal order?
For Martin Jacques, 2008 represented the end of the Western-dominated financial system and the beginning of a Chinese century.
The bleak future of British foreign aid
The government’s ‘international development’ strategy is a red herring for dubious private financing, argues Nick Dearden
Thailand’s intergenerational exiles
‘My mother said to me “this is just history repeating itself’.” Thai-British academic Giles Ji Ungpakorn speaks with Alexi Demetriadi.
Introducing...Samia Suluhu Hassan
Richard Swift on East Africa’s first woman president, a Zanzibar-based organizer promising to protect Tanzanian workers and their basic freedoms.
Agony Uncle: Am I contributing to gentrification?
‘I was pushed out due to rising rents; now I'm inflicting the same on others. What should I do?’ Our in-house ethics advisor chips in.
Displaced by a riot
Since 2018, a remarkable uptick in communal violence has taken shape in India. Dilnaz Boga speaks to survivors of ethnic violence in the 1990s, who explain their fears for where the country is headed.
