The Big Story: Trade in Turmoil

15 Is trade in turmoil a chance for justice?
Vanessa Baird sets out amid the gathering storm clouds.
18 A rustbelt romance
Are Donald Trump’s tariff wars without reason?
21 Investor Rex
The low-down on ISDS and other dodgy investor
privileges.
23 The dark arts
Brexit boom-time for corporate lobbyists.
24 Open China?
What China promises, what China does.
27 Pigs that cross…
Climate-wrecking follies of free trade.
29 Winners and losers
How the clash of the titans, China and the US, is
impacting the Global South.
32 Just, open and green
This is what a better global trading system might
look like, concludes Vanessa Baird.
35 ACTION and worth reading

CURRENTS
8 African migrants seek new lives in China
Plus: Borderlines
9 Introducing... Jair Bolsonaro
9 Free and fair elections in Armenia
Plus: Seriously
10 Y’en a marre mobilize in Senegal
11 Tibet’s bid for emoji flag
Plus: Sign of the Times
11 Meet the radical bird watchers
12 Bangkok street sellers live to fry another day
13 The legacy of Somalia’s worst suicide attack
Plus: Reasons to be Cheerful

REGULARS
6 Letters
Plus: Why I…
7 Letter from Dhaka
In her first column, Parsa Sanjana Sajid observes the symbolism of
flowers being sold at an historical intersection in the city.
14 What If…
...we reduced carbon emissions to zero by 2025?
37 Hall of Infamy
Matteo Salvini, Italy’s ‘refugee drowner-in-chief’,
is put under the spotlight.
38 Country Profile: Cuba
40 Cartoon History
The story of Toussaint Louverture, former slave
and military leader of the Haitian revolution, as told
by ILYA (with Yohann Koshy).
44 The Debate
Dawn Foster and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown dispute
whether or not religion should play a role in politics.
51 Temperature Check
From Extinction Rebellion to palm oil, Danny Chivers
outlines the top five climate struggles to look out for in 2019.
55 Southern Exposure
Self-taught photographer Amarjeet Kumar Singh captures a candid moment during a behrupiya
(impressionist) event in New Delhi.
60 The Interview
Soni Sori, an award-winning human rights
defender, speaks to Dilnaz Boga about fighting for
justice for sexually abused Adivasi women.
78 The Puzzler
79 Agony Uncle
In this issue, our in-house ‘Uncle’ answers a
dilemma about property inheritance.

OPINION
47 View from India
Nilanjana Bhowmick reacts to the ‘unease’
expressed by Indian men in today’s #MeToo era.
Plus: Polyp & Schlunke’s Big Bad World.
59 View from Africa
Nanjala Nyabola on Cameroon’s never-ending
presidential terms.
Plus: Marc Roberts’ Only Planet.
63 View from America
Mark Engler reflects on the life of Pete Seeger - an
American musician, patriot and dissident.
Plus: Kate Evans’ Thoughts from a Broad.

FEATURES
48 Do we fetishize indigenous people?
Working on a documentary about the Moken ‘Sea
Gypsies’ prompted Julian Sayarer to examine
the West’s obtuse gaze and representation of
indigenous people.
52 Catching the cops
Aboriginal people are using a new app to record and
report police brutality. Will it help break Australia’s
culture of impunity? Ian Lloyd Neubauer reports.
56 Japan’s firewall against populism
Despite populism being rife everywhere else,
Japan has refused to succumb. Are there lessons
to be learned? asks Tina Burrett.
64 Unlearning despair
In this issue’s Long Read, Daniel Macmillen
Voskoboynik explains why and how we must fight
for the world around us - and why ecological
thinking is key.

MIXED MEDIA
72 Spotlight
Chilean-Argentine director Sebastian Lelio speaks
to Malcom Lewis about writing complex, engaging
characters and film as a ‘machine for empathy’.
74 Book Reviews
Can We Feed The World Without Destroying It?
by Eric Holt-Gimenez; Deviation by Luce D’Eramo,
translated by Anne Milano Appel; Tentacle by Rita
Indiana, translated by Achy Obejas; Voices of the
Windrush Generation by David Matthews.
76 Film Reviews
Burning, directed and co-written by Chang-dong
Lee; Green Book, directed and co-written by Peter
Farrelly.
77 Music Reviews
25LIVE@25 by Skunk Anansie; Echoes by Farhan.