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…
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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…
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…
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…
A balance sheet of a year of neoliberal pandemic responses
Dorothy Grace Guerrero, 11 March 2021 On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared that Covid-19 was a global pandemic. A year since, there have been more than…
For universal and free access to vaccines! Report from our global meeting
Activists from around the world met on March 2nd, as part of the global campaign to stop the World Trade Organization from putting millions of lives in peril. Pierre Beaudet…
The Political Economy of Covid-19 Vaccines
Jayati Ghosh, March 5, 2021 Vaccine grabs, the refusal to relax patents to enable mass production, and the use of vaccines for diplomacy run the risk that poorer nations may…
Myanmar: How the CDM can win
Aye Min Thant And Yan Aung, March 4, 2021 The Civil Disobedience Movement must define clear goals, set sustainable strategies and ditch any illusions of foreign intervention if it’s to…