Threatened by Chinese scientific and technological advances, the US has dragooned European countries through the North ...

In today’s major global conflicts – in Palestine, Ukraine and Sudan – the UN’s role has largely been in the area of a ...

Enticed to join an international energy agreement with a poor history on climate change, governments across the Global South could be exposed to expensive lawsuits from corporate investors. Juliet ...

I was born in 1965, the year the plastic bag was invented. During my childhood, in a boom city in central India, I remember plastic bags were still relatively rare. Only the more expensive shops gave ...

On this page you can explore every past issue of New Internationalist magazine, going back all the way to 1973.

Asma Hafiz reports on the intrusive surveillance being forced on often lower caste sanitation workers in many Indian cities. A sanitation worker holds the device being used to track them. The ...

They’re either Libyans or migrants but all of them have at least one thing in common: they’re black. It’s a stigma which makes life even harder in a country where chaos is the only rule, reports ...

As industrial agriculture encroaches into the last wild places of the Earth, it’s unleashing dangerous pathogens. Time to heal the metabolic rift between ecology and economy, suggests Rob Wallace.

Palestine’s poets, novelists, musicians and journalists have not only voiced their people’s liberation struggle but also driven it. Decca Muldowney charts their role in resisting annihilation and ...

Carmen Herrera traces the history of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, from socialist liberators to ‘institutional dictators’, under the increasingly brutal rule of Daniel Ortega A mural of ...

Yohann Koshy returns to the golden age of solidarity between Global South states. Anyone interested in the meaning of internationalism in the second half of the 20th century would have been wise to ...