David Ransom knows of no better way to celebrate New Year than as the anniversary of the Zapatista insurgency in Chiapas, Mexico, in 1994.

By cutting the fuel subsidy the Nigerian government has snatched away the main benefit to the people from the country’s oil wealth, says Sokari Ekine.

But it won’t be long before they come up with another excuse, says Mike G from the Rainforest Action Network.

This year, 25 December was about survival, not celebration, for the people of northern Mindanao in the Philippines, says Iris Gonzales.

Just in case you missed them, the top 10 New Internationalist blogs and features of 2011.

Mark Schuller, an expert on the relief effort after Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, talks about the positive and negative aspects of NGO relief work in the two years since.

Predicting the effects of global warming is never easy, says Zoe Cormier. But the signs are not good. 

Complainants against abuses by Chinese authorities are forced to sleep rough in sub-zero temperatures and those that help them are harassed by police, reports Shuang Gao.

On 19 December Occupy London went to court for the beginning of their eviction proceedings and scored some early points, reports Jamie Kelsey-Fry.

Where is Benigno Aquino’s empathy for his people? asks Iris Gonzales.

People are not dying of HIV and TB because there is no cure but because medicine can be stubbornly inflexible, explains Anna Hughes.