Riot against the regime

Riot against the regime

Migrant workers in Taiwan turn to music as a form of resistance against exploitation, writes Jan Camenzind Broomby.

Buy this magazine

NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
Rapper Hichkas is surrounded by people wearing photos of victims of the regime, as he speaks at a protest to commemorate ‘Bloody November’ in The Hague, the Netherlands, on 19 November 2022.Photo: Sopa Images Limited/Alamy

‘I am not going to stay quiet’

Rap is a genre intertwined with politics, but the political courage of Iran’s rappers takes some beating, Lorraine Mallinder finds.

Buy this magazine

NI 543 - Loneliness - May, 2023
Lazinho and Lucas di Fiori.Photo: Alessio Perrone

The Interview: Lazinho and Lucas di Fiori

Lazinho and Lucas di Fiori of Brazil’s famous Banda Olodum talk to Alessio Perrone about 40 years of drumming up change.

Buy this magazine

NI 525 - The fight for clean air - May, 2020
Left: Radwan Ghazi Moumneh; Right: Charles-André Coderre.Photo: Melanie Marsman

Spotlight: Jerusalem In My Heart

(aka Radwan Ghazi Moumneh) Words by Louise Gray, photograph by Melanie Marsman.

Buy this magazine

NI 515 - Making peace in a world at war - September, 2018

Mixed Media: Music

Bush Lady by Alanis Obomsawin; Under Frustration, Vol 1 by Arabstazy.

Read this article

NI 514 - The next financial crisis - July, 2018
Amadou & Mariam

And finally...

Mali’s blind musical duo speak to Graeme Green about the ‘refugee crisis’ and why extremist efforts to stop the music will ultimately fail.

Buy this magazine

NI 514 - The next financial crisis - July, 2018
Angelique Kidja – rocking the material in her indomitable way.

Mixed Media: Music

Remain in Light by Angélique Kidjo; Voice of Resistance by Rim Banna.

Read this article

NI 513 - A better media is possible - June, 2018
Photo: Richard Holder

Calypso Rose

With a career spanning six decades, Tobago’s Calypso Rose has written more than 800 songs focusing on gender discrimination and social injustice. The 78-year-old, who has survived cancer and two heart attacks, spoke to Sian Griffiths.

Buy this magazine

NI 512 - Public ownership rises again - May, 2018
Sons of Kemet – historical pride and Afro-futurism.

Mixed Media: Music

Your Queen Is a Reptile by Sons of Kemet and Radyo Siwèl, by Mélissa Laveaux.

Buy this magazine

NI 510 - Black Lives Matter - March, 2018

Mixed Media: Best of 2017

What a year! We’re all in need of some light relief – here we pick out the top films, books and music reviewed by New Internationalist in 2017

Buy this magazine

NI 509 - What's left for the young? - January, 2018
Daniel Mburu Muhuni (left) and Sven Kacirek (right) against a backdrop of how global trade policies affect African farmers.

Mixed Media: Music

Economic Partnership Agreement by Sven Kacirek and Daniel Mburu Muhuni; Syrian Dreams by Maya Youssef.

Read this article

NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017
Photo: Suki Dhanda

A word with Nithin Sawhney

Acclaimed British-Indian musician Nitin Sawhney talks to Subi Shah about colonialism, music as a passport to possibility and why he wants to be known as ‘someone who gives a shit’.

Read this article

NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017
Going places – TootArd from the Golan Heights.

Mixed Media: Music

We review TootArd, from the Golan Heights, with their second album Laissez Passer, and Live at Ronnie Scott’s, by Nitin Sawhney.

Buy this magazine

NI 507 - Humans vs robots - November, 2017
Thea Gilmore

And finally... Thea Gilmore

British singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore’s acclaimed new album The Counterweight was written during the turbulent events of 2016. She spoke to Danny Chivers about music, politics and crying on stage.

Buy this magazine

NI 506 - Brazil's soft coup - October, 2017
Saz’iso – about to hit the big time?

Mixed Media: Music

At Least Wave Your Handkerchief At Me by Saz’iso; Frost on Fiddles by Frigg.

Buy this magazine

NI 506 - Brazil's soft coup - October, 2017
Photo: PACIFIC PRESS/Alamy Stock Photo

And Finally: Jason Williamson

Sleaford Mods’ vocalist Jason Williamson talks to Graeme Green about anger, politics and anti-singing.

Read this article

NI 502 - West Papua - Freedom in sight? - May, 2017
The Black Sistaz: Petra, Lea and Rosa Rumwaropen.Photo: theblacksistaz.com

The drumbeat of resistance

‘The struggle is in the song, and the song is in the struggle.’ West Papuan musician Ronny Kareni explains the vital role of Melanesian culture in the fight for freedom.

Read this article

NI 502 - West Papua - Freedom in sight? - May, 2017

A word with Moby

The singer and musician talks to Graeme Green about fame, frustration and failing systems.

Read this article

NI 498 - The coming war on China - December, 2016
Bitori – bringing the banned music back.

Mixed Media: Music

Hopelessness by Anohni; Legend of Funaná by Bitori.

Buy this magazine

NI 494 - Smiley-faced monopolists - July, 2016
Photo: Guillem Moreno

A word with Aziza Brahim

The Western Saharan singer and activist on Cuban solidarity, life as a refugee, and making her grandmother proud.

Read this article

NI 493 - Love in the time of Ebola - June, 2016

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
Debt: which way out? May, 2024
Loneliness May, 2023
The fight for clean air May, 2020
Making peace in a world at war September, 2018
The next financial crisis July, 2018
The next financial crisis July, 2018
A better media is possible June, 2018
Public ownership rises again May, 2018
Black Lives Matter March, 2018
What's left for the young? January, 2018
Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent December, 2017
Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent December, 2017
Humans vs robots November, 2017
Brazil's soft coup October, 2017
Brazil's soft coup October, 2017
West Papua - Freedom in sight? May, 2017
West Papua - Freedom in sight? May, 2017
The coming war on China December, 2016
Smiley-faced monopolists July, 2016
Love in the time of Ebola June, 2016
Back