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14 Dec 2019 8 minute read

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Kick ‘em all out! Citizens’ Assemblies and the next democratic revolution

Citizens’ Assemblies are being promoted as the preferred democratic tool of a new generation of activists, Brett...

12 Sep 2018 4 minute read

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An anti-imperialist Labour Party?

Labour in office has always been ‘pro-nukes and pro-empire’. What can Corbyn bring to the table? Richard Seymour...

28 May 2018 3 minute read

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Shutting down guns and greed

Mark Engler considers popular resistance to mass shootings and increasing healthcare costs in the US.

16 Oct 2015 1 minute read

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The transgender revolution

In this video, New Internationalist co-editor Vanessa Baird introduces our October magazine...

8 Sep 2015 4 minute read

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Is the end in sight for corruption in Guatemala?

Jackie McVicar looks at the country’s long road to elections and political recovery.

20 Aug 2015 4 minute read

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Heathrow expansion? Plane stupid

Melanie Strickland comments on the future of aviation, climate change and the necessity of direct action.

5 May 2015 3 minute read

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Colombia’s crackdown on impunity

Ex-intelligence chief Maria del Pilar Hurtado has finally been brought to justice, writes Andrew Hogg.

1 May 2015 4 minute read

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A farewell to Sabeen Mahmud

Sahar Habib Ghazi reports on the murder of one of Pakistan’s most prominent activists.

28 Apr 2015 2 minute read

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Why I will be occupying Parliament Square on Friday

Aisha Dodwell urges everyone to help bring about real democratic change.

10 Nov 2014 3 minute read

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Universities respond to anti-fossil fuel calls

Student activists around Britain are lobbying for divestment from coal, oil and gas, report People & Planet...

10 Nov 2014 11 minute read

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From the Berlin Wall to today

What mainstream commentators get wrong about the historic uprisings of 1989, and what civil resistance gets right. ...

28 Oct 2014 4 minute read

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Russell Brand vs the bloody liberal majority

Forget the establishment, writes Youssef El-Gingihy. The real enemy of Russell Brand – and his call for...

17 Sep 2014 14 minute read

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Surviving the ups and downs of social movements

Can theories of movement cycles equip activists to persevere over the long haul? Mark Engler and Paul...

16 Jul 2014 20 minute read

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How social movements can win more victories like same-sex marriage

Where insider politics fails, a transformational approach can turn the impossible into the inevitable, write Paul...

1 Jul 2014 3 minute read

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Social change is written in the streets

Fifty years ago the Civil Rights Act was passed into law in the US. Movements not governments propel change, believes ...

8 May 2014 5 minute read

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‘A peaceful, constructive riot’: how prison theatre is changing policy in Lebanon

Janey Stephenson meets those at centre stage of an artistic revolution.

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