The WTO needs to change track if we want to fight COVID Discussion organised by Global Dialogue in cooperation with the Global Tapestry of Alternatives, March 2, 2021 12PM New…
Latin America: ‘Held to ransom’: Pfizer demands governments gamble with state assets to secure vaccine deal
Madlen Davies, Rosa Furneaux, Iván Ruiz, Jill Langlois, February 23 2021 Pfizer has been accused of “bullying” Latin American governments in Covid vaccine negotiations and has asked some countries to put up sovereign…
Rebuilding international convergence
Report of an international meeting organized by several international networks on the occasion of the World Social Forum, February 22, 2021 Introduction Last January, the World Social Forum organized a…
Dossier: Social Movements In Haiti
Pierre Beaudet, Sonia Fayman, 15 February 2021 President Jovenel Moise by staying in power despite the country’s constitution has triggered a serious political crisis. Virtually all organised bodies including the…
The Politics and Geopolitics of the Coup in Myanmar
Vijay Prashad, February 14, 2021 On February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military – known as the Tatmadaw – invoked Article 417 of the 2008 constitution, dismissed State Counselor Aung San Suu…
Kenyan activists raise questions about debt…
Kenya Debt Abolition Network, 29 January, 2021 1.0 – INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND On 13 January 2021 the Kenya Debt Abolition Network (KDAN) which is a social movement of Kenyan individual and organization…
Bernard Duterme: “The environmental movement must be urgently decolonised”
Mathieu Lorriaux, 25 January 2021 We may all be in the same boat, but not all of us have access to the lifeboats. This expression, borrowed from the Cameroonian economist…
Viral Inequality and the Farmers’ Struggle in India
Colin Todhunter, 3 Febrero 2021 According to a new report by Oxfam, ‘The Inequality Virus’, the wealth of the world’s billionaires increased by $3.9tn (trillion) between 18 March and 31…
The lessons of the Indian farmers’ struggle
Sushovan Dhar The Farmers struggle and its partial advance has shown us the way. Strong movements from below can have the potential to take on the Hinduvta juggernaut much more…
After Trump, What Prospects for Biden in the Global Imperial Disorder?
Claudio Katz, February 1, 2021 The United States’ Failed Imperial Recovery The United States seeks to regain its sagging world dominance by capturing wealth, quelling rebellions, and deterring competitors. It supports…