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The world should help southern Africa, not by blocking borders, but by lifting patents to vaccinate its population as soon as possible and prevent the global spread of the new variant.
Within hours, the news spread. A new Sars cov2 variant was sequenced, first in Botswana with three cases, (...)
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Covid-19: Variant B 11.529, Nu (Omicron)… Lift the patents on vaccines! Britain: Refugees dying in the channel for Brexit and the red wall? Dave Kellaway reports on the recent tragedy in the channel and why the Tories ’hostile environment’ will probably lead to more needless deaths.
Watching the news and listening to the politicians you would think that the 27 people who drowned horribly in an icy Channel were part of a ‘human (...)Britain: Tory Scum and Migrant Crossings Neil Faulkner comments on the latest Channel atrocity.
Labour deputy Angela Rayner is regarded by some as an authentic working-class voice on the opposition front bench; in contrast, as it were, to the dull, conformist, middle-class lawyer beside her. Anyone who believed this should have been (...)Over 50 groups gone in 11 months – how Hong Kong’s pro-democracy forces crumbled Since Beijing’s national security law for Hong Kong came into force, at least 50 organisations — including unions, churches, media groups, and political parties — have disbanded this year alone. The trend accelerated in the second half of 2021, with bastions of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement (...)
Uganda: Museveni to surrender Uganda’s only international airport over Chinese loan On Tuesday, 17 November 2015, the Uganda government signed an agreement with Export-Import Bank of China (Exim Bank) to borrow $207 million at two per cent upon disbursement. The loan had a maturity period of 20 years including a seven-year grace period.
It has now emerged that the deal signed (...)Quebec: Class Struggles over Occupational Health and Safety Bill 59 (now Law 27) on occupational health and safety was adopted, as amended, at the end of September by the National Assembly, against the unanimous opposition of the unions, organizations for the defence of unorganized workers, and all the opposition parties. Even if the struggle will (...)
The Quebec Mix: Racism, French, Austerity, Climate, Biodiversity An emerging anti-capitalism which heralds the convergence of struggles
The televised English debate during the federal elections (September 9, 2021) began with the controversial question to Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet: “You denied that Quebec has problems with racism yet you (...)Pacifist Japan is quietly arming itself to the teeth, with China in its sights • Post-war Japan has amassed a considerable pile of armaments while flying under the radar. It already has more aircraft carriers than China – it just dumbs them down as ‘helicopter carriers’
• With all eyes on Taiwan, Tokyo’s rising military spending may be contributing to the escalating arms (...)Press Statement (India): Secular Muslims oppose the demand for an anti-blasphemy law The folowing statement has been signed by nearly 400 secular citizens from all over India. and from diverse fields: social and political activists, lawyers, journalists, writerts, poets, actors, film makers, businessmen, farmers, home makers.... A large majority of the signatories are Muslims. (...)
In China, Xi Jinping sings his praises to the CCP Central Committee The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) met in plenary session from 8 to 11 November. It provided the opportunity for Xi Jinping to sing loud and clear his own praises and further marginalize the oppositions within the party, a year before its Twentieth Congress.
According (...)Fascist wins first round of presidential elections in Chile Dave Kellaway takes a look at the first round presidential election results in Chile.
Following Pinochet’s US supported fascist coup in 1973 up to 30,000 were killed or “disappeared” in Chile. Gradually 17 years later there was a managed democratic transition led by centre right and left of (...)Afghanistan and Its Challenge to Feminism The Taliban’s takeover of power after the United States’ brutal twenty-year imperialist occupation is a catastrophe for women not only in Afghanistan but throughout the world.
It is true that world powers often close their eyes to atrocities against women, including most recently the rape and (...)Call for donations for ESSF Solidarity Fund 2022 - Getting ready for a new exceptional year! The year 2020 had already been a particularly dark year for Asian populations, with the Covid-19 pandemic hitting communities weakened or threatened by many other social (impoverishment...), climatic (rising oceans, typhoons...), various more or less natural disasters (earthquakes, volcanic (...)
Chile: Elections and the conservative way out of the crisis We are approaching the transitional resolution of the crisis unleashed by the popular sectors in October 2019. And it is possible that it will be resolved in the worst possible way.
Two years after the popular revolt of October 2019, Chilean society has been summoned, once again, to a mega (...)Philippines: Ka Leody De Guzman supports call for more tax on wealthy MANILA, Philippines — Labor leader Leody de Guzman, who is aspiring to become the country’s next president, defended on Tuesday proposals to impose additional taxes on the wealthy and branded as “capitalist blackmail” criticisms to the idea.
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has earlier (...)India: How the Farmers’ Movement Brought the Modi Government to its Knees At every stage of the agitations, the BJP-led government attempted to crush the farmers’ movement. And failed.
New Delhi: In what will be hailed as a great victory for the year-long farmers’ movement in the times to come, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday morning announced his government’s (...)India’s farmers have won – but this doesn’t mean Modi is softening This is a rare climbdown from the prime minister. But the space for dissent is still diminishing under his government
It is not often that Narendra Modi gives a televised address to the nation and it is met with relief, not disarray. The Indian prime minister’s previous frightening acts of (...)Sri Lanka: The new poor normal Reviving the pandemic-stricken country often seems like the job of those who have the ability to directly and considerably contribute to the national economy, and almost all programmes aimed at rebuilding the economy focus more on the economic aspects of this matter. But, whether economic (...)
United States: Rittenhouse verdict gives vigilantes green light to kill It was expected. The judge was clearly on the side of teenager Kyle Rittenhouse, the white vigilante from Illinois.
Kyle Rittenhouse shot his victims while they protested for justice for Jacob Blake, who was paralysed from the waist down by a police shooting. Image: Wikimedia Commons
The 12 (...)United States: Demands for new probe into Malcolm X assassination Family members of revolutionary Black leader Malcolm X have revealed a letter written by a former undercover New York police officer, Raymond A Wood, that they say shows the New York Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were behind Macolm’s assassination on February 21, (...)
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