Articles by Chris Brazier

It’s the poor and vulnerable who will suffer in the ideologically motivated rush to convert schools to academies, says Chris Brazier.

Chris Brazier calls for the UK budget scandal to be the ‘poll tax moment’ for our government of reckless millionaires.

A cartoon introduction to life in the camps in and around Port-au-Prince.

Chris Brazier reports on the European Parliament’s decision to cancel its fishing deal with Morocco.

When I first embarked on writing a brief history of the world, my colleagues at the New Internationalist thought I was mad, says Chris Brazier.

Take subsidized pensions away from private school staff so well-deserving state-sector teachers can knock off early, says New Internationalist’s Chris Brazier.

… Olufemi Terry from Sierra Leone, who was awarded the Prize in Oxford, England, last night.

This is not a General Election that any of us can approach with great enthusiasm, writes Chris Brazier.

The Ahmadinejad regime’s stage-managed rally in Tehran should not be seen as a sign that opposition to it is becoming any less fierce.

A young woman’s death becomes a rallying-point as the Guardian Council endorses the election result.

Chris Brazier is staggered to find he knows the new head of MI6.

Mass protest in Iran continues as the Guardian Council agrees to recount disputed votes.

New Internationalist co-editor Chris Brazier kicked off a lively Put People First meeting in Edinburgh on Monday 23 March with this brief speech…

Why are so many women still dying in childbirth? Chris Brazier explains how they could be saved.

In the aftermath of protesting students’ deaths, Nikolaj Nielsen reflects on the world’s abandonment of Western Sahara.

Nikolaj Nielsen is caught up in the aftermath as two Western Saharan students are murdered in Morocco.

Chris Brazier makes the case for a green and fair diet.

Britain’s Law Lords rule that Islanders’ exile must continue

People in Western Sahara have been waiting 43 years for their rights under international law

We’re all struggling day by day to make sense of the mayhem in the markets - neoconservative governments discovering the virtues of nationalization, speculators’ bubbles finally bursting, doom-mongers who have been predicting the collapse of capitalism for decades suddenly worrying about their own pensions and mortgages when it arrives…

Why should we listen to the ‘economic experts’ and policymakers who got us into this mess in the first place? Let’s listen instead to people who saw the crash coming.

Saharawi activist wins Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Award

The recent elections in Iran have been widely interpreted as a victory for conservative forces and a boost for hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. How could a two-thirds majority in the Majlis for conservatives be interpreted any other way?

Chris Brazier investigates alternative tourism.

Tourism is booming – and every country seems to want more. But, Chris Brazier wonders, do they see the pitfalls?

Action and information on Iran

From Cyrus the Great, Omar Khayyam and the Shahs to Ayatollah Khomeini and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Chris Brazier argues for more understanding of Iran – and less confrontation.

There’s revolution in the capital. But will it touch the lives of Memnatu and the villagers of Salmaga, far away? A short story by Chris Brazier, inspired by people he came to know in Burkina Faso in 1985.

Chris Brazier is reunited not only with the village of Sabtenga, in Burkina Faso, but also with the remarkable Mariama Gamené.

Too many mothers dying in childbirth – and the clinic that would have saved them if they could only have paid the fees.

A visit to the local school brings hope – but a visit to one of its former pupils tells a different story.

The changing fortunes – and multiplying numbers – of the family at the heart of the NI film 20 years ago.

Have women managed to hold the line against genital mutilation? Does polygamy have a future?

The people’s organizations that are changing things from below – and reflections on two decades in the life of a village.

From pounding millet to David Beckham T-shirts – a photographic tour of village life.

Have people’s lives improved in the last 20 years?

Mao - The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

The Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara intensifies

The Government of Western Sahara operates not from its own capital city, L’ayoun, but from a small patch of desert over the border in Algeria.

The IMF and the World Bank are the 21st century equivalent of colonial governors, argues Chris Brazier.

Gandalf, wizard of the World Bank, has a dilemma. Should he stand alongside the hobbits and elves of Middle-earth against the powerpointwielding orcs? Or should he go along with IMF mage Saruman’s plan for world domination? A comic extravaganza by b

Ten years on from the 1991 ceasefire in the war between Morocco and the Western Saharan liberation movement, Polisario, the UN has delivered a body blow to Saharawis’ right to self-determination.

Chris Brazier writes a postscript for the twentieth century – and burrows into the gaping cracks in the new world order.

The century is being hijacked. Time to reclaim it, says Chris Brazier.