Politics
Globalization
Under the umbrella of globalization, you will find discussion of trade, workers’ rights and migration.
Within our globalized world, we find extensive imbalances of power. Some of us win – able to buy cheap products and move freely. Yet many more of us lose out to exploitative labour conditions and impenetrable borders. In response, our journalism reimagines a different world – one in which greater connectivity does not produce greater inequality.
What if…the West stopped exporting second-hand clothing?
Alice McCool imagines a world where countries are not left wearing the West’s cast-offs.
Why we need the solidarity economy
Solidarity Economy Association makes the case for building movements based on international co-operation and knowledge exchange.
Scottish ship workers stand defiant
A recent wave of mass redundancies from P&O ferries has triggered outrage. Conrad Landin reports from Cairnryan, Scotland, where the movement to restore jobs is gaining momentum.
Real change won’t come from the G7
Nick Dearden on how the G7 continues to stand in the way of a more democratic international order.
Can workers reset the system?
Tansy Hoskins on how garment makers could be better protected in future.
For a few cents more
The globalized garment industry is as ruthless as they come, creaming off huge profits while paying workers a pittance. Trade unionist Anannya Bhattacharjee speaks to Dinyar Godrej about the surprisingly small – yet vehemently resisted – changes needed for a living wage.
Only internationalism can beat Covid-19
Competition and chauvinism kills. We must save lives with international action and solidarity, urges Vanessa Baird
What does internationalism actually mean?
From Algiers to the Bandung Conferences, what became of the Third World movement?
Winners and losers
Vanessa Baird analyses how the Global South is affected by the current trade turmoil – and old patterns of power.
Just, open and green
Vanessa Baird concludes with 14 ways – at least – towards a better global trade.
Investor rex
The beast that won’t lie down and die – the ISDS ‘investor protection’ racket is still with us, in all but name.
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?
Brutal forced deportations, globalization and human rights
The Stansted 15 have exposed the hypocrisy of Britain, Ann Pettifor argues.
NGOs must give up power
Aid organizations need to relinquish the clout that comes with money and bureaucracy, argues Oxfam’s Ben Phillips.
The Great Rebellion
The Great Recession may have stunned the Minority World, but the Majority World has survived more or less unscathed. David Ransom investigates why, and traces the outlines of a future that might just be worth having.
Star Trek - Episode 1: The G20 and the B.O.R.G. Supremacy
G20 communiqué goes boldy nowhere where everyone has gone before...
The end of an era
With the US economy on life support, Asian countries have lost their major export market. Walden Bello wonders if domestic markets can take up the slack.
China Panic
It’s official – according to new *NI* columnist *Anna Chen*– 2008 isn’t just the Year of the Rat and the Beijing Olympics. It’s also China Panic Year.
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Reform And Transformation
Reform and transformation
Communities of the urban dispossessed are in a conflict
too sharp to be blunted by crumbs of comfort, argues Jeremy Seabrook. 
Globalization: An Alternative View
You don't have to see the world through the eyes of the market, says David Ransom.
