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...
Protesters block access to the Ring Bridge in Beirut, October 26, 2019. Photo: Nadim Kobeissi (Creative Commons) On 17 October 2019, the Lebanese cabinet met amid a rapidly deteriorating financial situation and catastrophic wildfires ravaging the country. During that...
Groups like São Paulo’s Bancada Ativista are working to change Brazil’s politics at the local level (Photo credit: Pedro Maia / Veja SP) Following Jair Bolsonaro’s election as the president of Brazil in 2018, democratic institutions have faced a series of attacks,...
Bristol CND members going to Aldermaston, 21st April 1962 (Copyright: Bristol Post) Angela Carter’s time in Bristol (1961-69) and Bath (1973-75) provides the frame to explore the ‘provincial bohemia’ of the period and its influence on her work. This book makes a...