Issue 510 of New Internationalist
Reader-owned global journalism
February 2018
No justice, no peace: Black liberation movements today
In a world where racism exists, we can’t ignore race. The US as a country has been forced to realize this through viral videos of the killing of black people, and the galvanizing power of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has become a global force.
Black Lives Matter has become a rallying cry for a generation of black activists around the world, from the US to the UK, Australia to Brazil – as featured in this month’s The Big Story by Amy Hall, this edition's editor.
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Paraguay: An unequal land
Paraguay’s land activists are under attack. Toby Hill profiles the country’s precarious democracy.
A feast of reading: March books
Reviews include: Deport, Deprive, Extradite, by Nisha Kapoor; Building and Dwelling, by Richard Sennet.
When ‘America First’ is a corporate scam
Trump’s policy should be called ‘Corporate America First’, argues Mark Engler.
Mozambique plantation leaves no land or jobs for villagers
Promised plantation jobs, five years later these Mozambicans are still waiting, discovers Nils Adler.
Sand dredgers defeated in Koh Kong, Cambodia
In Koh Kong province, Cambodia a band of Mother Nature activists have scored a victory in the battle against environmentally...
Meet Anabela Carlón Flores
Nick Dowson speaks with the indigenous lawyer and campaigner fighting a gas pipeline in Mexico.
A Q&A with Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky shares his views with Andy Heintz on America’s ‘free trade agreements’, North Korea and the dangers of a ‘...
Farewell to the big village
Amy Booth bids farewell to Cochabamba and shares what the ‘big village’ has revealed to her.
Multiphonic Afro-futurism and ‘subversive breeze’
Reviewed: Your Queen Is a Reptile by Sons of Kemet; Radyo Siwèl by Mélissa Laveaux.
Psychedelics, human trafficking, and song
US singer-songwriter Nahko shares his experience of turning pain into positivity with Graeme Green.
Why land is the lifeblood of Aboriginal people in Australia
Amy McQuire on why life and death are inseparable from land for Aboriginal people in Australia.
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