Gatekeepers of the present order adapt efficiently. But others can open up a plurality of futures.
Exceptional moments legitimize exceptional policy responses. Declarations of emergency, usually by definition, mean that democratic rights and liberties are diminished. Times like this, however, (...)
Moving between the Russian, Iranian and Young Turk revolutions, cosmopolitan Armenians helped usher in the 20th century.
On a day like any other, in early 20th-century Tbilisi, the skilled bomb-maker Rostom runs into his wife on the street. Eghsapet, surprised by the sight of her long-absent (...)
In the era of widespread mobile telephony, we witnessed certain capitalist firms employing a sophistication of techniques to ensure the illegitimate debt of the lower classes.
Kenya, a country of 50 million people, is considered to be at the forefront of mobile telephony and digitalisation. (...)
Adjustment and austerity measures are often among the conditions associated with multilateral loans and have been widely recommended, advocated and even imposed, in recent years, by international financial institutions (IFIs), such as the IMF. The number of countries implementing austerity (...)
From bullying and sexual assault to squalid living conditions and forced labour, working at sea can be a grim business – and one deep-sea fishing fleet is particularly notorious.
On the night of 14 August 2010, the captain of a South Korean trawler, the Oyang 70, left Port Chalmers, New (...)
Austerity measures imposed by international financial institutions such as the IMF, regularly cause violations of human rights, says UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky in a report to be presented to the UN General Assembly in October.
“Even though austerity can be a useful tool of administration against the squandering of resources, it is essential to keep in mind that austerity impacts different social groups in very (...)
Trumpism is capitalism’s Plan B.
“I’ve travelled 24 hours, from Manila to Rio, to be here, yet politically I feel I haven’t left home.” Walden Bello, leading light of the ‘anti-globalisation movement’ and former Filipino congressman reflected on the rise of authoritarian right-wing ‘strong men’ from (...)
After The God of Small Things made her a global star, the novelist turned to political writing and activism. Gary Younge finds out why.
Gary Younge: One of the things I’m intrigued by at this moment is the way that we keep getting shocked by elections. Modi in India, the Australian elections – (...)
Sexual health organisations warn women will die if they are forced to seek DIY abortions.
The Trump administration has taken its war on abortion worldwide, cutting off all funding to any overseas organisation or clinic that will not agree to a complete ban on even discussing it.
The Mexico (...)
A decade ago the Left believed that it could use social media to outflank the established mass media. But it is the far right that now dominates social media, writes Phil Hearse.
Two recent events have focused attention on extreme right social media. The shooter in the Christchurch massacre (...)
The most recent target for the US government – and Western big business – is Venezuela. But what is happening to Venezuela is nothing unique. It faces an onslaught from the United States and its allies that is familiar to countries as far afield as Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. (...)
The UNCITRAL process runs a real risk of producing middle-ground solutions that will fail to address the fundamental flaws of the ISDS system and will only further institutionalise and re-legitimise the system. Read this blog written by Bart-Jaap Verbeek:
Between 29 October and 2 November (...)
Dear UNCITRAL Member States:
As representatives of civil society organizations across the globe, we reiterate our unequivocal opposition to the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) regime and the far-reaching rights for foreign investors enshrined in trade and investment treaties. ISDS and (...)
The new generation of trade agreements currently being negotiated by the EU endangers financial regulation. Worse, they rein in the capacity of states to regulate in the future. By signing them in their current form, governments agree to be deprived of the means to contain or prevent future (...)
OrIginally used exclusively for colonies of white settlement, the term “Commonwealth” was generalised in the mid-20th century to describe a more civilised empire. “Evolved” British dominions like Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa would have significant self rule. But Asians and (...)
This unrepentant Marxist, writer, journalist, filmmaker and political campaigner is still searching for socialism with a human face.
Unrepentant Marxist, writer, journalist, filmmaker and political campaigner, Tariq Ali is still searching for socialism with a human face. He sits on the (...)
The general line of this report, presented by Laurent Carasso in the name of the Bureau of the Fourth International and enriched by the discussion that followed, was adopted by the International Committee by a large majority on February 25, 2012.
The international situation continues to be (...)
Report on the international situation approved by the International Committee (IC) of the Fourth International.
The revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt constitute a historic turning point in the international situation. These revolutions change the rules of the game. There will be a before and (...)
Circulated January 20th, 2011, these notes have been written prepare the debates at the coming International Committee (IC) meeting of the Fourth International. Centered then mostly on Europe, they will be reworked in function of the quick evolution of the situation (Arab region...) and the IC (...)
“We are left with the politicians who think poorly of us, and who stand back with chaos in their pale old eyes whimpering, “That is not what we wanted. No, it was not to have gone that way.” They are old, but we have been very ill, and cannot yet send them away.” Bertram Warr (1917-1943).
When the (...)
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