Fighting the Medical Monopoly: Mobilizing for ZERO-COVID and Decommodified Healthcare
Salimah Valiani With the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, ‘vaccine nationalism’ is only slightly more rife than the calls against it. The focus on ‘vaccine nationalism’ by critical thinkers and activists…
New haircuts, old ideology: film warns of shifting far-right strategy in Europe
Philip Oltermann, 28 Feb 2021 They’ve ditched the shaven heads but, despite recent setbacks, they remain a threat, says film-maker Christian Schwochow Inside a university auditorium in Prague, a young…
What if liberal anti-racists aren’t advancing the cause of equality?
Bhaskar Sunkara, 6 March 2021 Much of today’s advocacy around racial justice places the onus on individual actors and the private sector. We need collective action instead Americans are talking…
The Sweatshop Feminists
Hester Eisenstein, June 17, 2015 Global elites have appropriated feminist language to justify brutal exploitation and neoliberal development. I have often been asked since the publication of my book what I mean…
The US Left, China, Internationalism & Campism: When Your Enemy’s Enemy is Not a Friend
Wednesday 3 March 2021, by CLARKE John In a world based on exploitation and oppression, resistance is ever present. Most of the time it simmers below the surface but sometimes it takes…
Covid-19 vaccines – the new apartheid?
Fatima Hassan, Lydia Cairncross, March 29, 2021 At the end of February, ILRIG held a webinar on the issue of Covid vaccines. Two of the speakers were Fatima Hassan, Director…
Open letter to humanity: Life above all
BRAZIL SCREAMS FOR HELP “We are living under dark times, when the worst people lost their fear and the best people losttheir hope” Hannah Arendt The Brazilian population who care…
Popular feminist movements in the Americas: towards politics in a feminine key
Nazaret Castro, 12 February 2021 In the early morning hours of 29-30 December, the Argentine Senate voted ‘yes’, as expected, to the Law on the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy. As…
Artists Respond: Myanmar Fights for Democracy
New Naratif, 22 March 2021 Seven creators reflect on the struggles and hopes of the ongoing pro-democracy protests in Myanmar. On 1 February, the Tatmadaw—Myanmar’s military—seized control of the government…
Biden and Trudeau have promised to provide vaccines to the Global South. But later is not good enough!
Robert Rotberg, Founding director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict. His latest book is Things Come Together: Africans Achieving Greatness, 22 March 2021 U.S. Secretary of State…