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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 (...)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 (...)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 (...)Indonesia: Workers’ Resistance to Waves of Mass Layoffs and Omnibus Law The multidimensional crisis is emerging due to Covid-19 outbreak and give impacts to the working class in Indonesia. Not to mention the receding issue of layoffs due to the economic crisis experienced before the arrival of COVID-19, now the wave of mass layoffs has jumped significantly as a (...)
India: Labour rights are in free fall By suspending labour laws, States are exploiting the unique opportunity provided by the national lockdown.
As India slowly attempts to lift its nationwide lockdown, under compulsion of reviving the economy, labour rights are disappearing at an astonishing pace. Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradeshh (...)De/Constructing Internationalism The Coronavirus crisis and, in particular, the governmental measures responding to it are aggravating pre-existing inequalities and oppression. Exposure to danger and access to support is determined by class, race and gender, as well as one’s position in the global economy. Feminists continue to (...)
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 (...)
Pandemic: Holding Covid-19 at bay in Venezuela As of May 15, Venezuela is reporting 455 coronavirus infections and just 10 Covid-19 deaths. However, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants in neighboring Columbia and (especially) Brazil are trapped in pandemic hotspots. Thus far, President Nicolás Maduro’s government has maintained an (...)
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. (...)
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 (...)
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