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EDITORS’ LETTER EDITORIAL TEAM for the New Internationalist Co-operative newint.org FUTURES OF OUR MAKING At the heart of most struggles for justice is the desire for a better world – immediately, and for future generations. That second part is the most challenging. As prison abolitionists Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes have written, we often need a ‘jailbreak of the imagination’ to be able to see our transformation and escape from the ‘false sense of inevitability ’ that can stop us achieving it. As New Internationalist turns 50, we’ve set our sights on 2073 – what kind of world do we hope to see when we hit our centenary? And what are the pathways to get there? This edition offers some glimpses of that future, with one foot firmly in the present. We’ve also been mining the archive for some of New Internationalist ’s best bits, of which we will bring you a selection throughout the rest of 2023. This time it ’s a prescient piece from the Global Warming magazine, published in 1990 – a time when much of the conversation around climate change was focused on whether it was real, and whether humans had anything to do with it. Also in this edition, Tarushi Aswani on the Indian Right’s attempt to erase the country’s Islamic history, and Rahila Gupta explores Jineolojî – the precepts of gender equality that inform the Kurdish women’s freedom struggle. We’ll leave you with the much-quoted, but everhopeful words of writer Arundhati Roy: ‘Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.’ COVER: ANDY K USING SHUTTERSTOCK IMAGES THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: Tarushi Aswani is an independent journalist based in India. She reports on human rights , governance, religion and politics and tweets @tarushi_aswani Rebecca Wilks is a Cardiffbased freelance journalist reporting on Welsh politics, housing and policing. When not writing, she loves to paint and is an active campaigner for tenants’ rights. Emma McKeever is an Irish writer, environmental educator and amateur mycologist. She was recently named among the Northern Ireland Climate ChangeMakers 30 Under 30. Uyapo Majahana is a panAfrican journalist passionate about illuminating the links between climate change and social justice issues like poverty, health, education and migration in the Global South. THE NEW INTERNATIONALIST multistakeholder co-operative exists to report on the issues of world poverty and inequality; to focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and powerless worldwide; to debate and campaign for the radical changes necessary to meet the basic needs of all ; and to bring to life the people, the ideas and the action in the fight for global justice. The New Internationalist magazine was founded by Peter and Lesley Adamson in 1970. Together with a range of other publications it is published by New Internationalist Publications Ltd which is wholly owned by the New Internationalist Co-operative Ltd and its co-owners. Accounts: Katalin Szombati Subscriptions and administration: Louise Waters Advertising: Michael York Design: Andrew Kokotka Editorial (Magazine and Website): Dinyar Godrej , Amy Hall , Conrad Landin, Husna Ara, Nick Dowson Contributing editors: Vanessa Baird , Chris Brazier, Jamie Kelsey-Fry Funding and engagement: Laura Veitch Mail Order: Emma Blunt, James Rowland Marketing (Magazine): Rob Norman Production: Fran Harvey Web and IT: Charlie Harvey SUBSCRIPTIONS UK  Website: newint.org/subscribe Email: subscriptions@newint.org Phone: +44 (0) 20 3868 4646 Phone (from Ireland): CallSave 1850 924 331 Post: New Internationalist, The Old Music Hall , 106 -108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JE , UK. NORTH AMERICA  To update your subscription with address changes etc or to contact us with any other subscription queries: newint.org/subscriptions You will need your subscriber reference number which is on the magazine address label. Email: newint@kckglobal.com Phone: 1-800-661-8700 Canada: PO Box 819, Markham, ON L3P 8A2 US: PO Box 1062, Niagara Falls , NY 14304-1062 SUBSCRIPTION PRICES UK: Standard – £42.85; Institutions – from £120 Canada: Standard – $44 (plus GST or HST) US: Standard – $44; Foreign (by air) – $70 Rest of World: Standard – £50.85/�59.85. UK OFFICE New Internationalist, The Old Music Hall , 106-108 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1JE. Tel: +44 (0)1865 403345 Email: ni@newint.org ADVERTISING (MAGAZINE & WEB) Michael York +44 (0)1865 403339 michaely@newint.org Contract enquiries: ni_cg@newint.org Web queries: tech@newint.org Permissions & general enquiries: +44 (0)1865 403345 office.manager@newint.org UK NEWS TRADE DISTRIBUTOR Intermedia Brand Marketing Ltd, Unit 6, The Enterprise Centre, Kelvin Lane, Manor Royal, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 9PE. Tel: +44 (0)1293 312001 NORTH AMERICA NEWSSTAND DISTRIBUTOR Natalie Dalton, Disticor Direct, ndalton@ disticor.com Publications Mail Agreement number 40063336. Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to Circulation Department, NI Magazine, PO Box 819, Markham, ON L3P 8A2. All monetary values are expressed in US dollars unless otherwise noted. US postmaster: send address changes to NI Magazine, PO Box 1062, Niagara Falls , NY 14304. Indexing: Indexed in the Canadian Periodical Index Quarterly (CPI.Q), Canadian Business and Current Affairs and the Alternative Press Index. Available in full-text electronic format from EBSCO and Proquest. The New Internationalist is published bimonthly. Regulated by IMPRESS: the independent monitor for the press – impress.press For Complaints Scheme see: newint.org/about/complaints @newint facebook.com/newint © New Internationalist Co-operative Ltd 2022 ISSN 0305-9529 ISO accreditation 9001-2008 MARCH-APRIL 2023 3

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EDITORS’ LETTER

EDITORIAL TEAM for the New Internationalist Co-operative newint.org

FUTURES OF OUR MAKING

At the heart of most struggles for justice is the desire for a better world – immediately, and for future generations. That second part is the most challenging. As prison abolitionists Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes have written, we often need a ‘jailbreak of the imagination’ to be able to see our transformation and escape from the ‘false sense of inevitability ’ that can stop us achieving it.

As New Internationalist turns 50, we’ve set our sights on 2073 – what kind of world do we hope to see when we hit our centenary? And what are the pathways to get there? This edition offers some glimpses of that future, with one foot firmly in the present.

We’ve also been mining the archive for some of New Internationalist ’s best bits, of which we will bring you a selection throughout the rest of 2023. This time it ’s a prescient piece from the Global Warming magazine, published in 1990 – a time when much of the conversation around climate change was focused on whether it was real, and whether humans had anything to do with it.

Also in this edition, Tarushi Aswani on the Indian Right’s attempt to erase the country’s Islamic history, and Rahila Gupta explores Jineolojî – the precepts of gender equality that inform the Kurdish women’s freedom struggle.

We’ll leave you with the much-quoted, but everhopeful words of writer Arundhati Roy: ‘Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.’

COVER: ANDY K USING SHUTTERSTOCK IMAGES

THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE:

Tarushi Aswani is an independent journalist based in India. She reports on human rights , governance, religion and politics and tweets @tarushi_aswani Rebecca Wilks is a Cardiffbased freelance journalist reporting on Welsh politics, housing and policing. When not writing, she loves to paint and is an active campaigner for tenants’ rights. Emma McKeever is an Irish writer, environmental educator and amateur mycologist. She was recently named among the Northern Ireland Climate ChangeMakers 30 Under 30.

Uyapo Majahana is a panAfrican journalist passionate about illuminating the links between climate change and social justice issues like poverty, health, education and migration in the Global South.

THE NEW INTERNATIONALIST multistakeholder co-operative exists to report on the issues of world poverty and inequality; to focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and powerless worldwide; to debate and campaign for the radical changes necessary to meet the basic needs of all ; and to bring to life the people, the ideas and the action in the fight for global justice. The New Internationalist magazine was founded by Peter and Lesley Adamson in 1970. Together with a range of other publications it is published by New Internationalist Publications Ltd which is wholly owned by the New Internationalist Co-operative Ltd and its co-owners.

Accounts: Katalin Szombati Subscriptions and administration: Louise Waters Advertising: Michael York Design: Andrew Kokotka Editorial (Magazine and Website): Dinyar Godrej , Amy Hall , Conrad Landin, Husna Ara, Nick Dowson Contributing editors: Vanessa Baird , Chris Brazier, Jamie Kelsey-Fry Funding and engagement: Laura Veitch Mail Order: Emma Blunt, James Rowland Marketing (Magazine): Rob Norman Production: Fran Harvey Web and IT: Charlie Harvey

SUBSCRIPTIONS UK  Website: newint.org/subscribe Email: subscriptions@newint.org Phone: +44 (0) 20 3868 4646 Phone (from Ireland): CallSave 1850 924 331 Post: New Internationalist, The Old Music Hall , 106 -108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JE , UK. NORTH AMERICA  To update your subscription with address changes etc or to contact us with any other subscription queries: newint.org/subscriptions You will need your subscriber reference number which is on the magazine address label. Email: newint@kckglobal.com Phone: 1-800-661-8700 Canada: PO Box 819, Markham, ON L3P 8A2 US: PO Box 1062, Niagara Falls , NY 14304-1062

SUBSCRIPTION PRICES UK: Standard – £42.85; Institutions – from £120 Canada: Standard – $44 (plus GST or HST) US: Standard – $44; Foreign (by air) – $70 Rest of World: Standard – £50.85/�59.85. UK OFFICE New Internationalist, The Old Music Hall , 106-108 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1JE. Tel: +44 (0)1865 403345 Email: ni@newint.org

ADVERTISING (MAGAZINE & WEB) Michael York +44 (0)1865 403339 michaely@newint.org Contract enquiries: ni_cg@newint.org Web queries: tech@newint.org Permissions & general enquiries: +44 (0)1865 403345 office.manager@newint.org

UK NEWS TRADE DISTRIBUTOR Intermedia Brand Marketing Ltd, Unit 6, The Enterprise Centre, Kelvin Lane, Manor Royal, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 9PE. Tel: +44 (0)1293 312001

NORTH AMERICA NEWSSTAND DISTRIBUTOR Natalie Dalton, Disticor Direct, ndalton@ disticor.com Publications Mail Agreement number 40063336. Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to Circulation Department, NI Magazine, PO Box 819, Markham, ON L3P 8A2.

All monetary values are expressed in US dollars unless otherwise noted.

US postmaster: send address changes to NI Magazine, PO Box 1062, Niagara Falls , NY 14304. Indexing: Indexed in the Canadian Periodical Index Quarterly (CPI.Q), Canadian Business and Current Affairs and the Alternative Press Index. Available in full-text electronic format from EBSCO and Proquest. The New Internationalist is published bimonthly.

Regulated by IMPRESS: the independent monitor for the press – impress.press For Complaints Scheme see: newint.org/about/complaints

@newint facebook.com/newint

© New Internationalist Co-operative Ltd 2022 ISSN 0305-9529 ISO accreditation 9001-2008

MARCH-APRIL 2023

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