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Launched in May 2020, the worker-members of ChiFresh Kitchen have been busy throughout the Covid-19 pandemic cooking up healthy, culturally appropriate food for their Chicago community. As well as providing emergency food aid, the co-op – which employs formerly incarcerated people – is also contracted to provide food for schools and social centres and makes several hundred meals a day. Credit: KAI BROWN

13 Dec 2021 6 minute read

The democratic workplace

In co-operatives, employees can take control of the business. Amy Hall explores the possibilities and...

Read my facemask: a woman at a rally of essential workers in Detroit, Michigan, US, October 2020. EMILY ELCONIN/REUTERS/ALAMY

10 Dec 2021 5 minute read

The fight for lives and labour

Black women in the US do the socially important work, often unnamed and unrecognized, that is essential to the profit of an...

Photo Credit: Jen Zoon, Smithsonian's National Zoo

9 Dec 2021 7 minute read

Do zoos cause more harm than good?

Do zoos represent pointless captivity or an opportunity for conservation and education? Linda Kimotho and...

Cueca dancers celebrate the indigenous Aymara culture of the Andes – but in modern garb – as a carnaval parade gets under way in Arica, Chile. JEFFREY ISAAC GREENBERG 20+/ALAMY

8 Dec 2021 7 minute read

Living well

Richard Swift on why we need to stop chasing the dream of full employment and focus on what really matters...

The Brazilian president's pandemic policies ranged from discouraging social distancing to opposing the use of masks and promoting drugs like chloroquine which are useless in treating the disease. Palácio do Planalto/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

7 Dec 2021 3 minute read

Hunger in the world’s breadbasket

Leonardo Sakamoto tracks the scandalous rise of hunger in Brazil.

Economic migrants from rural areas at work on a construction site in Nairobi, Kenya. Such jobs are usually temporary, sometimes just a day’s labour. NATURE PICTURE LIBRARY/ALAMY

6 Dec 2021 12 minute read

The squeeze on workers

To ensure a fairer future we will need to tackle business as usual, says Dinyar Godrej.

3 Dec 2021 5 minute read

The alternative book review

Jo Lateu, Peter Whittaker, Vanessa Baird weigh up recent releases in...

3 Dec 2021 6 minute read

‘Our whole truth will come out’

Roxana Olivera reports on the indigenous women who could make legal history by holding a Canadian mining...

1 Dec 2021 4 minute read

Tunisia: at a glance

A decade on from the revolution, and after a succession of chaotic governments, is democracy teetering in Tunisia, asks...

30 Nov 2021 3 minute read

Hall of infamy: Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow

Despite mass unemployment and a deep food crisis, Turkmenistan’s image-obsessed president claims poverty does not exist in...

29 Nov 2021 17 minute read

Lloyd’s of London’s debt

What would be the cost of reparations for the transatlantic slave trade and ongoing support of fossil fuels? Sahar...

25 Nov 2021 3 minute read

The alternative music review

Malcolm Lewis and Louise Gray review the latest releases by Justin Adams and Mauro Durante...

24 Nov 2021 3 minute read

Spotlight: DJ Switch

DJ Switch, a 13-year-old campaigner for children’s rights and all-round powerhouse, talks with Subi...

Catching up with the Trolley Times, Ghaziabad, India, April 2021. The fourpage weekly newspaper, printed in Gurmukhi and Hindi, was founded in December 2020 to give voice to the farmers’ protest. SOPA IMAGES LIMITED/ALAMY

23 Nov 2021 9 minute read

Holding out for the harvest

Narendra Modi has announced his intention to repeal the contentious agriculture laws unwaveringly resisted by India's...

22 Nov 2021 3 minute read

‘My friend thinks Covid-19 is a hoax. What should I do?’

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter...

19 Nov 2021 5 minute read

‘Fortress conservation’ is driving us from our homes

Pranab Doley, an Indigenous activist from the Mising people, condemns the militarization of the...

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