This month's big story
Activism = Terrorism?
September, 2026
The Empire Strikes Back. Across the globe governments are using terrorism laws to prosecute protesters. Decca Muldowney traces the practice back to its colonial origins, and considers the future consequences for activism.
The Sotos are unlikely terrorists.
A couple with three children, Elizabeth and Ines Soto lived in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas in the United States, ...
A note from the editor
Decca Muldowney
Global crackdown
As this magazine went to print the United States government imposed sanctions on Palestine Action and several other international activist collectives, declaring them ‘far-left terrorist groups’. Their assets will be frozen, fundraising for the groups will be banned and those involved will face bans from travelling ...
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Recent feature articles
A selection of feature articles from each of the latest New Internationalist magazines.
Who owns the skies?
562 - July, 2026
A new space race is set to worsen global inequality and extend conflict. We need to return to seeing space as a place for all humankind, argues Nick Dowson.
The general strike
561 - May, 2026
From 1926 to 2026. A century on, Bethany Rielly and Decca Muldowney examine Britain’s only general strike, a walk out with a scale and impact that remains unprecedented in the country’s history. What can movements learn from it today?
The Long War for Meaning
558 - November, 2025
Gaza-born journalist Ramzy Baroud traces how Palestinians have turned survival into a struggle for dignity, history and freedom, with Gaza at the heart of the resistance.
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Can mining save the world?
555 - May, 2025
They are touted as our way out of climate chaos and essential for making the things we use, from mobile phones to electric vehicles. Vanessa Baird sets out to investigate critical minerals – and the rush to get them.
Africa’s pandora’s box
548 - March, 2024
Can South Africa ever fully shake off the shackles of apartheid? Conrad Landin asks whether the country’s historic genocide case against Israel could lead to a reckoning at home.
Green face, old tricks
547 - January, 2024
How can we prevent an unjust transition? As the clean economy gets into gear, Nick Dowson asks whether a market-focused, subsidies-led approach will just mean more of the same.
From the archives
A selection of articles from the New Internationalist magazine archives.
‘We can’t be silent’
514 - July, 2018
Palestinians in Gaza have been putting their lives on the line to challenge Israel’s decade long siege of the Strip.
Mixed Media: Books
560 - March, 2026
Why Christian should be Leftists; Landscape with Landscape; Big Kiss, Bye-Bye; Notes From a Lost Country.
My whistle, my voice
556 - July, 2025
A bold feminist campaign turned a whistle into a protest against street harassment. Maya Misikir tells their story.
Making Waves: Jamila Afghani
506 - October, 2017
A profile of Afghan campaigner for women’s education and rights Jamila Afghani, who started by persuading the imams. Beena Nadeem talks to the unassuming trailblazer
Worldbeaters: Rodrigo Duterte
496 - October, 2016
The president of the Philippines he may be, but his reputation is as a Dirty Harry of vigilante politics.
The arms trade - The Facts
553 - January, 2025
State of the industry; Deadly business; At the border; Who’s supplying whom?
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