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Pakistan: It is Right to Rebel The task today is not to provide abstract slogans but to intimately attach ourselves to the unfolding of the class struggle, and reconstruct our horizons based on concrete social upheavals. It is only from within the space of these struggles that we can trace the hopes, courage and creativity (...)
Cyclone Amphan (India): People of Bengal rely on themselves As of May 24, India is reporting 131,868 coronavirus infections and 3,867 Covid-19 deaths. The pandemic has thus far hit Maharashtra state on the west coast the hardest, including the city of Mumbai with nearly 1,000 [confirmed] Covid-19 deaths . Prime Minister Narandra Modi initially won high (...)
Pakistan: Rethinking Healthcare and Medical Education As the world goes through a pandemic, there have been talks about how things would change after all of this is over. Two lessons that the developed and developing world have learnt during this crisis: there is no health unless there is healthcare for everyone. And secondly, protecting (...)
Pakistan: The Students’ Herald — Magazine of students, by students, for students Welcome to the first edition of The Students’ Herald, an endeavour by Progressive Students Collective to create an independent platform which represents voices of young people across the country, and beyond.
A dictatorial ban on student unions in Pakistan was instituted more than three decades (...)South Asia: Cyclone Amphan and Coronavirus Have Exposed the Failings of Neoliberalism in India and Bangladesh On Wednesday, Cyclone Amphan hit the eastern coast of India and Bangladesh, killing at least 84 people. Now-weakened, the first super cyclone to have formed in the Bay of Bengal since 1999 is making its way north through Bangladesh and towards Bhutan. As the death toll continues to climb, (...)
Covid-19 pandemic in Latin America: Choosing between life or Capital Róbert Nára interviewed Jeffery R. Webber for the summer 2020 issue of Marxist Left Review published by Socialist Alternative, Australia? Róbert Nára (RN): Let’s start at an epidemiological level. How has the virus impacted the region so far?
Jeffery R Webber (JW): In terms of the sheer number of (...)Desiring human touch — #MeToo and Queer Experience Author’s note: This article was years in the making. The time I spent wrestling with these issues now feels like a distant past. But still, in the midst of this pandemic, the importance of mutually desiring human touch - especially queer human touch - seems at least as great to me as ever. (...)
ESSF coverage of the Coronavirus pandemic The Covid-19 pandemic has generated interlocking crises at multiple levels. ESSF is providing thematic and geographic coverage in English and French.
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Our (...)In India, Kerala’s socialist, ‘people-first’ response to COVID-19 saves lives The Left Democratic Front (LDF)-governed Indian state of Kerala’s reaction to the coronavirus virus outbreak is now hailed as an international example for COVID-19 control.
Kerala’s COVID-19 response included public education and support for people’s livelihoods. Photo: CPI(M)
As of May 18, this (...)Covid-19 (United States): No masks allowed: stores turn customers away in US culture war Shops around the US make headlines for denying entry to those wearing masks as protesters argue against preventative measures in the name of freedom.
In the last few weeks a spate of American stores have made headlines after putting up signs telling customers who wear masks they will be denied (...)Coid-19 (Britain): We are not all in the same boat This government has a death pact with a market system that kills.
We should start with the deaths. Sometimes on the left we can be a bit cold and analytical but the only response at the moment is utter anger. Thousands and thousands are dying needlessly. Dying on ventilators, apart from their (...)Covid-19 (United State): Class Struggle and Social Protest in the Coronavirus Pandemic The United States has during the shutdown of the last two months suffered 90,000 deaths while 36 million workers have filed for unemployment, nearly 25 percent of the workforce. President Donald Trump now wants to restart the economy because he fears losing the November election if this Second (...)
Covid-19 (Britain): Johnson government forced to U turn on NHS and schools At the regular Prime Minister’s questions (PMQs) two days ago (20 May) Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer asked the question that had already been raging on social media for some time. Why is the British Government making non-EU migrants working and dying in the front line in the National Health (...)
Biotechnology companies : What the phase 1 trials of the first COVID-19 vaccine really mean Early morning on May 18, Moderna, a biotechnology company, revealed the preliminary findings for the much anticipated phase I trial of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. The information sent Moderna’s stock soaring by more than 20% and helped fuel a rally on Wall Street.
Although there was an (...)Large hydropower dams ’not sustainable’ in the developing world A new study says that many large-scale hydropower projects in Europe and the US have been disastrous for the environment.
Dozens of these dams are being removed every year, with many considered dangerous and uneconomic.
But the authors fear that the unsustainable nature of these projects has (...)How Covid-19 spread through France while doctors’ warnings were ignored The number of people infected by the Covid-19 virus in France had already reached epidemic proportions in February, weeks before the lockdown on public movement was introduced, this investigation by Mediapart reveals. Research now being carried out by doctors even suggests that the very first (...)
French infectious disease expert on lessons of the virus crisis and the need to re-think healthcare policy A leading specialist in infectious diseases, French doctor Didier Sicard was for many years head of internal medicine at the Cochin public hospital in Paris, helped establish the Pasteur Institute’s branch in Laos, south-east Asia, and served for eight years as head of France’s national bioethics (...)
Millions forced to choose between hunger or Covid-19 On the eve of May Day 2020, in full coronavirus pandemic, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) released some hair raising statistics. About 1.6 billion workers from the informal sector are in dire straits because of the lockdowns governments have imposed to stop the spread of the virus. (...)
Pakistan: A Call for Revolutionary Internationalism “If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonized people, what kind of revolution are you waging?”
Ho Che Minh
For all of the outrage that many rightly feel, it is not surprising that the Pakistan state’s inherently authoritarian streak has come to the fore in the midst (...)Sri Lanka: What does it mean to ‘return to the 1970s economy’? If Sri Lanka’s policy makers are slowly beginning to think about the possibility of local production, we must be wary of top-down efforts that only focus on managing state finances and increasing GDP growth, rather than empowering working people across diverse ethnic, religious, caste, and (...)
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