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• World: Epidemics, pandemics (economic crisis)

  Pandemics – Public transport workers worldwide demand protection from Covid-19

  1 May, by ITF

  Frontline public transport workers from around the world have united to publish a global charter of demands for better protection from the Covid-19 pandemic.
  Hundreds of public transport workers across the world have died from Covid-19, with the death toll rising daily. They are on the (...)

• World: Epidemics, pandemics (economic crisis)

  Pandemics, Global charter of demands: Keep public transport workers safe from Covid-19

  30 April, by ITF

  Public transport workers are on the frontline of the battle against the Covid-19 pandemic. They are the drivers, ticket sellers, conductors, cleaners, maintenance and office workers who provide the vital services that keep public transport systems functioning - facilitating other key workers to (...)

• World: Epidemics, pandemics (economic crisis)

  Covid-19 pandemic and afterwards? Self-Extinction of Neoliberalism? Don’t Bet on It.

  24 April, by ACHCAR Gilbert

  For the second time since the turn of the century, governments in North America and Europe are intervening massively with public funds to prevent a general economic collapse. The magnitude of the ongoing economic disaster is such that it has revived the hope that it will lead to a major global (...)

• World: Epidemics, pandemics (economic crisis)

  Covid-19: The Pandemic and the Global Economy

  20 April, by GHOSH Jayati

  Developing countries face collapsing international trade, falling remittances, sharp reversals of capital flows, and currency depreciation. Only bold policies—debt relief, international financing, planning, and more—will avert further catastrophe.
  There are still many uncertainties about the (...)