Richard Bell and Emory Douglas mural in Brisbane, Australia (CC 3.0) Another summer of sport is upon us. Well, maybe. We know better by now than to put dates in the diary without a ‘tbc’ alongside – even erstwhile calendar fixtures like the Olympic Games and European...
Credit: Wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0 Enshrined in Cornish folklore are stories of rebellions against cases of English government encroachment, such as the Battle of Blackheath in 1497 and the Prayer Book Rebellion in 1549. Yet, unlike in other Celtic nations, there emerged...
Pilots have experienced unprecedented upheaval as a result of the pandemic. Credit: BALPA Imagine you’ve had your heart set on a particular career since you were a child. Having done your research on how to train for your dream career, you find out what the relevant...
Outside of a Komîngeh (credit: Ramazan Mendanlioglu) In the villages, cities and regions of Rojava, in the predominantly Kurdish north east of Syria, political upheaval has resulted in the largely decentralised self-administration of many areas, including health,...
Refugee solidarity sticker in Athens (Credit Kandukuru Nagarjun CC BY 2.0) ‘Resistance and aid’ is part three of three from a collection of essays on ‘social solidarity’ that were originally featured in issue #231, ‘People, Power, Place’, published in March 2021. Read...
Langar in Amritsar (Credit Shankar S CC BY 2.0) ‘The cauldron, the sword, victory!’ is part two of three from a collection of essays on ‘social solidarity’ that were originally featured in issue #231,‘People, Power, Place’, published in March 2021. Read part one here....
Hands in solidarity mural, Chicago, by Dan Manrique Arias (Credit Terence Faircloth CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Covid-19 has illustrated both the potential and the need for communities to self-organise mutual support. Today’s necessities are stimulating us to discover the ways...
A student bedroom in Hampden Hall, Nottingham Trent University. Photo: Creative Commons In September, hundreds of thousands of students packed up their things and moved away from home for the first time, heading to 130 different universities across the country. Four...
Demonstrators eating communal food at the Plaza Baquedano in 2019 (Credit José Venegas, CC BY-SA 4.0) La olla común, literally ‘the communal cooking pot’, refers to a long tradition of grassroots community kitchens in Chile and other parts of Latin America that has...
Recent New Internationalist magazine covers There was a point last year where it seemed like every day I would read that another media organization was laying off journalists and scaling back their operations. From digital-only news platforms to print magazines, many...
Police line the streets of Bogotá. Credit: Maria Acuña By day in Siloe, a barrio in the south of Cali, the sirens are constant. By night, the cries of people can be heard over shots of tear gas, rifles and pistols. The police patrol the streets and helicopters hover...
Porthcawl, Wales (credit: Jeremy Segrott) Municipalism should give ordinary people the means to overcome the extraordinary challenges of the present moment: the climate crisis, the decline of democratic participation, and the entrenchment of structural poverty and...