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Pandemic (United States): A Recipe for Disaster – Yih and Kulldorff’s “Radical” Covid Strategy In a recent Jacobin interview entitled “We Need a Radically Different Approach to the Pandemic and Our Economy as a Whole, ” ecologist and epidemiologist Katherine Yih and professor of medicine Martin Kulldorff, both at Harvard Medical School, offered neither. Instead, their “radical strategy” for (...)
Covid-19 (Britain, Scotland): Left must oppose ‘live with virus’ doctrine As this is written, the Tory UK government is putting in place in England further local lockdowns and restrictions on gatherings, calling for people to work from home again if possible, and is apparently considering a two-week ‘circuit breaker’ national lockdown, writes Phil Hearse.
The rapidly (...)How philanthropy benefits the super-rich There are more philanthropists than ever before. Each year they give tens of billions to charitable causes. So how come inequality keeps rising?
Philanthropy, it is popularly supposed, transfers money from the rich to the poor. This is not the case. In the US, which statistics show to be the (...)Indigenous voices raised Land rights, self-determination and sustainable resource management take on new urgency amid climate and Covid crises
Minorities and indigenous people are often among the most marginalised communities in many societies. Systemically excluded from participation in the socio‐economic life of many (...)Hong Kong: A statement from union organizer Leo Tang on the eve of his incarceration In the world, we are part of a sweeping wave of resistance. We are never alone.
[(Prefatory note from Leo’s colleague and comrade at Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions
Our friend Leo is now in jail because of political repression. He seems to have expected this, and even thinks he is (...)England and Wales: What is the Anti-Capitalist Resistance (ACR)? All principled socialists should join the newly forming A*CR, argue Neil Faulkner and Simon Hannah. Here’s why.
We have taken a small step forwards in the attempt to realign the Left. At the weekend, around 70 people joined the Ecosocialism or Disaster Capitalism event organised by (...)Rossana Rossanda: The great mother of a singular story Remembrance. When you’re twenty years old and lucky enough to be in the presence of Rossana Rossanda, Luigi Pintor, Lucio Magri, Valentino Parlato and Luciana Castellina, you don’t really understand just how much of an impression they will leave on your life.
With Rossana gone, an important part (...)FTAs: Agriculture is a Big Deal - Any Trade Deal Should Not Mess with Indian Agriculture The possibility of a trade deal between India and the United States (US) is being discussed again. The timing of it is predictably before the presidential elections in the US in November 2020. Trade deals have figured in President Trump’s campaign speeches, including the one at the Republican (...)
Why is Philippines doing so badly in virus suppression? ’Medical Populism’ is the problem. Medical journal The Lancet ranks Philippines 66th among 91 countries in coronavirus suppression, noting President Rodrigo Duterte’s ’medical populism’ as a factor
After the Philippines was ranked by 66th among 91 countries in a study by an independent medical journal submitted to the UN General (...)India: Hymns to the Sun : Re-reading poet Birendra Chattopadhyay on His Birth Centenary Today, 2 September 2020, marks the end of the birth centenary year of the left-progressive Bengali poet, Biren Chattopadhyay, whose prime concern in more than four decades of his literary life had been how to “hold one’s head high even in the midst of hell”, writes Nilanjan Dutta.
American poet (...)Manoj Bajpayee narrates plight of migrant workers in this viral 6-minute Bhojpuri rap song The song is titled ‘Bambai mein ka ba’ (what is there in Mumbai). The video features an English translation, and has been directed by filmmaker Anubhav Sinha.
New Delhi: Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha and actor Manoj Bajpayee have got together to produce a hard-hitting Bhojpuri rap song titled ‘Bambai (...)On Free Women And A Free Belarus The images are blurred and a bit chaotic, as they often are in on-the-spot videos of fast-moving events circulating on social media. But the gist of the story is clear. Three men clad in dark face masks and combat gear, their identities hidden behind their uniform exterior and emotionless body (...)
Hong Kong press groups criticise police decision to only recognise journalists registered with gov’t Hong Kong media groups on Tuesday hit back at a police decision to stop recognising the credentials of some local journalists, following months of tension between officers and the press during last year’s citywide protests.
Only government-registered outlets and “internationally known” foreign (...)Memory Politics in an Illiberal Regime: Hungary’s New Trianon Memorial As problematic monuments are being brought down in recent anti-racist protests around the world, Hungary, in contrast, saw the completion of a deeply flawed and tone-deaf memorial.
Built for the centennial of the Trianon Peace Treaty, the ““Memorial of National Unity”” in front of the Hungarian (...)Women and Feminism in Belarus: The Truth behind the “Flower Power” To learn more about the events in Belarus, we spoke with a local feminist leader and frequent participant in demonstrations Irina Solomatina. Solomatina is the Head of Council of Belarusian Organization of Working Women (since May 2019) and a co-author of the book “Women’s Activism in Belarus: (...)
May 68, France & Italy: “There Were No Teachers” In this excerpt from The Comrade from Milan , Rosanna Rossanda recounts her experiences of May 1968 between Italy and France.
The occupied Odéon, May 1968. via Wikimedia Commons.
Everything was happening very fast: in Vietnam, Czechoslovakia, China — which was coming to the end of the Cultural (...)Philippines: Reax on reported PNP plan to scan social media for quarantine violators In the abstract and on its face, this sounds like a valid and well-intentioned idea. But in the context of the draconian Anti-Terror Law; the reckless proposal by the military to “regulate” social media supposedly to go after terrorists, their plans and recruitment; the official intolerance and (...)
Bolivia’s Roadblocks Now that a new date for elections – 18 October – is irreversible, Bolivia has once again narrowly avoided civil war. Jeanine Áñez was installed as president in a coup last November with Brazilian, US and Bolivian military support, following the overthrow of the democratically elected government of (...)
Pandemic (Spanish State): Madrid’s Covid Class War In Madrid, authorities have imposed a new lockdown on 850,000 people living in the city’s working-class neighbourhoods – the very places where key workers at the front lines of the virus are most likely to live.
“This is a form of class segregation. It is unjust and ineffective and cannot be (...)An extract from her memoirs: How 1968 Marked a Shift for Rossana Rossanda’s Radical Politics Sunday saw the passing of Rossana Rossanda, a lifelong communist, anti-fascist partisan, and cofounder of il manifesto newspaper. In this extract from her memoirs , she explains how the upheavals of 1968 marked a radical shift in her political engagement, as both the Prague Spring, and worker (...)
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