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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 (...)Israel’s Mizrahi Activists Are Fighting the Racist Nation-State Law Echoing the country’s Black Panther movement of the early 1970s, they’re challenging the false binary of Arab vs. Jew, which the law strengthens.
In July 2018, human rights attorney Hassan Jabareen, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, called sociologist Yehouda Shenhav. They had been trying since (...)In Japan, the Pandemic Has Shattered Abe Shinzō’s Great Power Dream Abe Shinzo’s government was slow to respond to COVID-19, lagging behind neighbors like South Korea. The public health crisis has been worsened by the recklessness of Abe’s foreign policy, which relies upon an erratic US sponsor whose bases are a vector for spreading the disease.
The year 2020 (...)Salt in the Wound In late March, Boris Johnson pronounced, “One thing I think the coronavirus crisis has already proved is that there really is such a thing as society.” He was celebrating the return to service of 20,000 workers from the public health system (NHS), along with the 750,000 “NHS volunteers,” pointing (...)
Ten Aphorisms on Capitalism, Covid-19, and the Climate Crisis 1. The end is also a continuation. Even as the coronavirus crisis cuts the feet out from under capitalism while exposing and embodying its horrors, capitalism finds its lifeline in further extraction. Not the extraction of value from workers or of oil from the earth, but of the political (...)
Emmanuel Macron’s Weak Pandemic Response Is a Bad Omen for His Promises on Climate Action Like the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change is a threat to all humanity. But it’s working-class people who are suffering most — and faced with both crises, Emmanuel Macron’s government is not taking concrete action to help.
France is one of the countries worst affected by the coronavirus pandemic (...)Hong Kong protests : more than 360 arrested as thousands take to streets to oppose new laws concerning Chinese sovereignty Diehard protesters continued to play cat and mouse with police late into the night, while radicals threw gas canisters into a fire, causing explosions Heavy police presence on streets throughout the day as lawmakers discuss bill that criminalises insults to March of the Volunteers.
More than (...)Covid-19 (Bangladesh): A fervent call to contribute to the relief operation initiative among the people affected by the pandemic Bangladesh Krishok Federation(BKF) and Bangladesh Kishani Sabha(BKS) stand with the people living in their organizational areas. Humanitarian support is urgently needed by people living uncertain lives due to the impact of COVID 19, who are afraid of contagion and, at the same time, are facing (...)
Thailand (Covid-19): State of emergency extended until the end of June The cabinet decided on Tuesday afternoon (26 May) to extend the State of Emergency to the end of June, while civil society organizations have called for the Emergency Decree to be lifted, raising concerns about abuse of power in situations unrelated to the pandemic.
Police officers at the (...)Thailand: Covid-19 measures must not be used to violate individuals’ human rights 27 May 2020 ASA 39/2403/2020
THAILAND: COVID-19 MEASURES MUST NOT BE USED TO VIOLATE INDIVIDUALS’ HUMAN RIGHTS
On 26 May 2020, the Thai government approvedthe extension of emergency powersunder the Emergency Decreeon Public Administrationin Emergency Situation (2005). The decree has beenin (...)Beijing gambles on Hong Kong’s future Beijing’s attempt to impose the ‘National Security Law’ on Hong Kong is being met with fierce resistance. The ultimate success of the democratic movement will depend on whether they can make common cause with working class people on the Chinese mainland, but international solidarity will also be (...)
What China’s New National Security Laws Mean for the Protest Movement in Hong Kong China’s new national security laws are a significant escalation against the protest movement in Hong Kong. Rather than act through Hong Kong officials to carry out its will, Beijing has decided to directly restrict the free speech rights of Hong Kong residents.
Last week, the Chinese government (...)Coronavirus and the Colombian Countryside Coronavirus has changed economic relations in rural Colombia, pushing campesinos to question extractive economies and offering an alternative model of production.
Fabio Muñoz is pissed off. In the context of a national fear of coronavirus, he was called a hero on the radio, he says. And it (...)Making workplace disability quotas work in Malta Like many workers in Malta affected by lockdown measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, Robert (not his real name) has been furloughed. But while work is important to him, home is where he feels most comfortable. There, Robert’s wheelchair fits everywhere he needs to go. He no longer needs to (...)
Venezuela: “The situation is very disgraceful for all” – An Interview with Omar Vázquez Heredia Omar Vázquez Heredia is a member of the Partido Socialismo y Libertad in Venezuela, and a professor at the Central University of Venezuela. He is the author of the book ‘La Cuestión Chavista. Estado Extractivista y Nación Petrolera’, the result of his PhD studies, where he presents a critical (...)
Africa: Let’s Decolonize the Coronavirus In a dispatch from their lockdown in Kigali, two UK-based researchers Andrea Filipi and Katrin Wittig reflect on the international media coverage of the Coronavirus pandemic and Africa. They argue that the coverage has recycled stereotypical portrayals of Africa, and that the West may be losing (...)
From Fanon to ventilators: fighting for our right to breathe To neoliberal states, the pandemic is a racialized security threat and a market opportunity. Our fight is for the right to breathe — in every sense.
Ruling elites are pursuing the convergence of two dreams in their response to COVID-19 : a state dream and a market dream. The state dream entails (...)How is Lenin Relevant for Politics in Pakistan Today? - Opening up space to develop a new hypothesis for the Left "Lenin is a thinker of combinations of struggles that can help produce an alternative politics that could not only confront the hegemony of capital over people’s lives, but also undermine the power of the state that uses coercion to separate people from each other.
We must acknowledge that (...)Big Protest in Hong Kong Greeted the News about Tabling National Security Law Thousands of protesters gathered in Causeway Bay at 1pm today. Again, it was called by online anonymous people. There was no proper organiser. What was more was that this was an illegal march. But thousands arrived at the streets nevertheless.
This kind of scene occurred multiple times last (...)Covid-19 (Brazil): Coronavirus Is Killing Isolated Indigenous Peoples at a Staggering Rate The mortality rate among indigenous people is twice that of the rest of the population.
Cover: A woman wearing a mask that reads in Portuguese “Indigenous Lives Matter,” cries during the funeral of Chief Messias Martins Moreira, 53, of the Kokama ethnic group, who died of Covid-19, at Parque das (...)
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