New Internationalist Publications is a co-operative-run publisher based in Oxford. It has editorial and sales offices in Toronto, Canada; Adelaide, Australia; Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand; and Lewiston, USA. It exists to report on issues of world poverty and inequality; to focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless in both rich and poor nations; to debate and campaign for the radical changes necessary if the basic needs of all are to be met.
Originally the group only published the New Internationalist Magazine, co-sponsored by Oxfam, Christian Aid and the Cadbury and Rowntree Trusts. Today sponsorship is no longer needed and is completely self-funded through subscriptions and product sales. Besides the income earned from sales of the magazine, the group now produces films, books and other communications material for various United Nations and related bodies concerned with world development.
The magazine has existed for over 30 years and currently is the largest Leftwing magazine in circulation in the United Kingdom. It has recently won the UTNE Independent Media Award (http://www.utne.com/uipa) for 'Best International Coverage' for the seventh time. It is a workers run co-op operating on a flat horizontal structure and strict ethical and environmental policies. The magazine is also made available freely on the New Internationalist web site (http://www.newint.org).
Presuming that to be the only choice leads to quiescence or misconceptions about the structures of power, as well as to a notion that those who disagree are either paranoids (the pluralist view of conspiracy theorists) or the willfully blind and part of the conspiracy itself (the conspiracy theorists' view of their critics).
NewInternationalist: If all social movements are created to oppose a power bloc that is relatively secret and elite, how can social movements develop strategies, frames, and narratives that point at the actual underlying causes of social, economic, and political oppression, rather than blaming everything on a handful of bad people plotting behind the scenes?
Fenster: An oppositional social movement that attempts to avoid conspiracy theory is seeking to counter both a prevailing, omnipresent narrative of limited vision (that it seeks to oppose) and a simple, easily discernible narrative of limited vision (that it seeks to avoid).
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