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AMY HALL for the New Internationalist Co-operative newint.org COVER ARTWORK: PETE REYNOLDS It’s 1.00am in Britain and I’ve snuck onto a Zoom call bringing together members of the Debt Collective, a union of debtors in the US. And they’ve been busy. O

Jyoti Thakur is an independent journalist based in Delhi, India, covering gender, environment, politics and social justice. Harold Isaac is an independent journalist based in Haiti. With a focus on Haiti’s ongoing crisis, he works to shed light on co

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newint.org Manipur smoulders, Modi looks the other way Amid escalating ethnic violence, people in India’s northeastern state feel abandoned by the government. Nikita Jain reports. In Sudan, women’s bodies have long been the battleground From state su

Re: Margaret Forbes’ letter NI 548. 1 As a baby boomer Forbes feels blamed for the state of the planet. But this happens throughout history. The next generation blames the previous generation for whatever has gone wrong. It is up to us ‘baby boomers’

In a bridge underpass in Taiwan’s capital Taipei, 26-year-old warehouse worker Sustrinso Ino enjoys a rare moment to himself, looking on as punk band Southern Riot take to a makeshift stage. As they begin to play, a mosh pit forms and audience member

In West Belfast, the gates of the ‘peace wall’ dividing the Protestant and Catholic neighbourhoods remain shuttered from dusk until dawn. ‘We now have terrorists in government,’ says a unionist resident, referring to the recently elected Sinn Fein Fi

One of six young Afghan asylum-seekers, imprisoned on charges relating to the 2020 fire that destroyed Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesvos, was found guilty in March by a regional court in a trial widely seen as flouting legal protocols.

Kyrgyzstan positions itself as a beacon of freedom in Central Asia: in the past, it has been celebrated as a democratic outlier amid authoritarian neighbouring states. Kyrgyzstan’s liberal image, however, no longer reflects its reality. On 14 March,

A right-to-die row is raging in Canada. In February, controversy forced the government to delay a measure widening access to assisted suicide for people with mental health conditions. Among a handful of countries permitting Medical-Assistance in Dyin

It was third time lucky for the 72-year-old former army general when he swept to presidential power in Indonesia on 14 February. The archipelago nation’s new President-elect lost in the last two elections to the wildly popular Joko Widodo (known affe

My Little… Revolutionary? Having finally eliminated Russia’s most prominent political dissident, Alexei Navalny, Moscow is now setting its sights on other pressing threats of foreignbacked opposition: My Little Pony. The American-owned children’s toy

Mass protests have hit the West African nation of Nigeria over a series of economic reforms introduced by President Bola Tinubu. The reforms, supported by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, include removal of an opaque oil subsidy and de

The days of unchecked greenwashing of products in Europe are numbered. Under new rules, companies will only be able to slap on ‘eco’, ‘natural’, and ‘carbon neutral’ labels after proving their green credentials through an official certification schem

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acorninternational.org A federation of member-run organizations across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America – many of them campaigning on debt. apmdd.org Regional alliance of peoples’ movements, community organizations, coalitions, N

GLOBAL DEBT IN 2023, OR 336% OF GDP.2 The servicing of debts is absorbing an average of 38% of budget revenue across the Global South.3 PUBLIC DEBT OWED BY GOVERNMENTS AND OTHER PUBLIC BODIES. PRIVATE DEBT OWED BY BUSINESSES, HOUSEHOLDS AND EVERYONE

Debt-related austerity is bad news for women, whether it’s introduced by a cuts-hungry government determined to ‘manage’ national debt through ideology, or enforced as a condition of an IMF loan. Globally, women do more than 75 per cent of unpaid car

The past two decades have seen a major reduction in inequality. The Gini index was 40.9 in 2021, as compared with 61.6 in 2000. At 94% (Peru 94, UK 99), Bolivia has come a long way in boosting literacy in the past three decades, although literacy is

Rather than offer a skin-deep glance at complicated global issues, we delve deeper with an in-depth focus on a different theme in each edition. We provide both the background and the solutions to the current state of affairs, from multiple perspectiv

As India approaches its general election there are two different narratives on women doing the rounds. One is that of women-led development, development that not only benefits women but that is driven by women’s leadership. The second has continued t

Javier Milei was elected, riding the wave of anti-politics rhetoric, by an Argentina tired of inflation, high interest rates and impoverishment. He is not the first, nor will he be the last extremist politician anointed for his ability to sell himsel

The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat by Hannah Proctor (Verso, ISBN 9781839766053) versobooks.com ‘Don’t mourn: organize.’ This phrase, attributed to the American labour organizer Joe Hill, who was executed in 1915, sums up much of the Left’s

From the Dawn of Civilisation to Independence by Zeinab Badawi (WH Allen, ISBN 9780753560129) penguin.co.uk The 1974 discovery of a 3.2 million-year old fossil skeleton in Ethiopia’s Afar region was global news. Nicknamed ‘the grandmother of humanity

At the beginning of 2024 it emerged that the top five richest men in the world had doubled their wealth since 2020.1 If this trend continues, the world could see its first trillionaire within a decade. But while the richest may be getting richer, for

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