Twelve states from across the Global South made history this week by announcing unprecedented measures to stop Israel’s ...

Dhondy’s work has shaped my own life. I grew up watching the TV shows that the now 81-year-old commissioned – shows which championed the Black and Asian experience in ways other programmes did not, ...

Subi Shah speaks to DJ Ritu about the ‘Asian Underground’, women’s rights and the British honours system.

Secretive and ruthless, the traffickers controlling the kidney trade thrive on the desperation of the poor and the sick. Nancy Scheper-Hughes lays bare the ‘collateral damage’.

John Pilger has clear views about the duty of journalists. True to form, his latest film pulls no punches. He talks to Vanessa Baird on the eve of its release.

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

My office is located in an urban village in the heart of Delhi. Originally surrounded by fields where people grew crops, these areas now house apartment blocks and shopping malls. All that’s left of ...

I an Curtis and Joy Division stand out. Not least because their music portrayed emotions, sorrows and terrors in a way that most popular music never comes within a country mile of and because Ian ...

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 ...

Modern life is rubbish Dinyar Godrej argues that the problems with our throwaway society add up to much more than the sum of individual actions.

The political landscape may seem particularly bleak at present. But, if we stand back and look at the bigger picture, the dominance of rightwing populists and neoliberal policies is likely to be a ...

An oil boom is reshaping Guyana’s future. Ben Jacob traces the country’s long history of colonial exploitation from Britain’s sugar factory to Exxon’s oil fields. Georgetown, the capital city of ...