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Slovakia: Normality or Solidarity – The Worrying Undertones of Eastern European (Post)pandemic Governance Looking at the trajectory of the development of the pandemic since the outbreak, most of the countries in Eastern Europe rank as the most successful in containing the virus. These are the countries where the number of confirmed cases is disproportionately low and where life has returned to a (...)
Coronacapitalism and Hindu Rashtra in India This virus with the invincible will to survive has a way of mutating in the petri dishes of local cultures and politics to produce phenomena that seem bizarre, yet painfully familiar. In India, twin processes have driven the country in accelerated mode since the parliamentary elections of 2014, (...)
Health (World) – Trump’s Withdrawal From WHO: A Cover-Up for His Abject Failure on COVID-19 Microbes do not recognize borders. We are all safe only when everybody is safe. In a pandemic, to attack the only body we have for global cooperation endangers everyone. That is why the US withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) is dangerous not only for the United States, but for (...)
United States : US Green Party presidential candidate offers socialist solutions The 2020 national convention of the Green Party of the United States, held online, ratified the nomination of Howie Hawkins as its candidate for President, winning 205 out of 357 total votes cast in state primaries. Angela Walker is his running mate for Vice President. Barry Sheppard (...)
Under China’s Thumb On June 30, Beijing passed national security laws that criminalize dissent in Hong Kong to put an end to the city’s yearlong protest movement. Touted by the pro-Beijing Hong Kong government as a means to restore peace and revitalize the city’s economy, these laws are a clear infringement on (...)
A Review of Andreas Malm’s “Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century” What can a virus tell us about climate breakdown, in its causation and in humanity’s response? And what can both tell us about capitalism and communism? These are the questions that Andreas Malm addresses in his new book forthcoming next month. It is a remarkable work, a tour de force. It (...)
UK: The evolution of Extinction Rebellion In its first year of existence, XR transformed the global conversation around the climate crisis. But then it was gripped by internal conflicts about its next steps. Can the movement reinvent itself for the post-pandemic world? By Matthew Taylor
In November 2017, Roger Hallam looked up from (...)Indonesia: Tuesday Actions in Yogya, Samarinda, take up theme ’Freedom from Sexual Violence’ The Enact the Draft Law on the Elimination of Sexual Violence Alliance (Aliansi Sahkan RUU PKS) again took to the streets of the Central Java city of Yogyakarta on Tuesday August 4. This month the Alliance is taking up the theme “Freedom from Sexual Violence, Enact the RUU PKS”.
The rally, which (...)Covid-19 (United States): Trump has no problem letting billionaires profit off the pandemic The president thinks that as long as they buoy the stock market, they’re helping the US economy – and that’s pure rubbish.
Since the start of the pandemic, American billionaires have been cleaning up. As more than 50 million Americans filed for unemployment insurance, billionaires became $637bn (...)Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai arrested on suspicion of foreign collusion, as police detain at least eight others, raid Apple Daily offices Founder of tabloid-style newspaper detained in most high-profile police operation under national security law since it was imposed by Beijing. Police also detain former student activist Agnes Chow and two others in another sweep in the afternoon.
Key points : Police arrest Jimmy Lai, his two (...)Coronavirus Outbreak : Hopes for a Covid-19 vaccine in early 2021, but that’s only the start of the story, experts say • Six candidates have reached the final stage of clinical testing, but even if they prove effective, there will still be questions to answer
• From successful trials, ‘it’s a long way … to long-term, protective immunity’, Imperial College London professor says
With six Covid-19 vaccine (...)Coronavirus outbreak (Britain) : NHS shutdown risks thousands of deaths in Covid-19 second wave Exclusive : Medical experts have warned of patient misery and pain if normal care is axed again.
The NHS will be inflicting pain, misery and risk of death on tens of thousands of patients if it again shuts down normal care when a second wave of Covid-19 hits, doctors’ and surgeons’ leaders are (...)Sri Lankan elections 2020: For Public or Rulers’ Welfare? Issued before the 5 August 2020 election gave a landslide victory to the Rajapaksa brothers, this statement by Friday Forum identifies the risks facing Sri Lankan society.
On August 5th 2020, we as citizens will choose the people who may join the President in governing this country for the (...)Covid-19 (World): A Global View of Coronavirus, Medical Policy, and Research In 2019, a new virus of the coronavirus family emerged in Wuhan, China, and the disease that was caused by this virus was named COVID-19 to indicate both the virus associated with it and the year it began. “Patient Zero,” the initial patient, appears officially to have started the epidemic in (...)
Rajapaksas win super majority in Sri Lanka parliamentary poll SLPP secures nearly 60% of the vote; critics worry about consequences
Sri Lanka’s ruling party secured a two-thirds majority in the recent parliamentary election, Friday’s results showed, giving the Rajapaksa brothers the power they sought to amend the Constitution.
The Sri Lanka Podujana (...)Statement from Beirut (Lebanon): “We announce the beginning of the battle for liberation” Popular commemoration for the victims of the blast.
Justice for the victims, revenge from the regime.
The street is ours, and to the street we return.
We were all born on August 4, 2020, at six in the evening, in Ward 12. We were born, or rather, we all died and some of us came back to life, (...)Situating the Hong Kong left An interview with a Hong Kong leftist organizer on how to build power despite antagonisms with the mainstream movement and the right.
[(Interviewer’s note: The Hong Kong anti-extradition law movement, which lasted for more than a year, has seen a revival in recent days. Originally a protest (...)The ins and outs of grassroots worker organizing on the frontlines of Hong Kong’s uprising An organizer at the Sanitation Workers’ Union reflects on challenges in building working-class solidarity in the movement.
[(Interviewer’s note: Though blue-collar workers make up the majority of the city’s inhabitants, their role in the Hong Kong uprising has yet been recognized. Their (...)France: Macron wounded, but still eyeing austerity The second round of the French local elections, at the end of June, was bad news for president Emmanuel Macron, whose candidates did very poorly. In response, Macron switched prime ministers, replacing high-profile operator Edouard Philippe with an unknown right winger, Jean Castex, whose (...)
‘A queer cry for freedom’: Meet the LGBTQ Palestinians demanding liberation Hundreds of queer Palestinians protested last week following a tumultuous year for the community, which is forced to navigate between homophobia and anti-Palestinian racism.
It happened all at once, without any coordination. Suddenly, all 150 protesters were on the street — lesbians, gays, (...)
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