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Retail companies like Zara and H&M are forcing workers to follow orders dictated by digital devices and corporate algorithms. To regain autonomy, creativity and agency in the workplace we need to start politicising the use of digital technologies.
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Learn how lessening the barriers for small farmers – and raising them for large companies – can help to steer legal cannabis markets in a more sustainable and equitable direction based on principles of community empowerment, social justice, fair(er) trade and sustainable development.
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This report seeks to explore and highlight the extent of today’s global border security industry, by focusing on the most important geographical markets—Australia, Europe, USA—listing the human rights violations and risks involved in each sector of the industry, profiling important corporate players and putting a spotlight on the key investors in each company.
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This report joins the dots between Europe’s outsourcing of migrant detention to third countries and the notoriously poor conditions in those migrant detention centres. Europe calls the shots on migrant detention beyond its shores but is rarely held to account for the deeply oppressive consequences, including arbitrary detention, torture, forced disappearance, violence, sexual violence, and death.
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The New Politics conference 2021 made a profound theoretical contribution to many of the most pertinent debates facing the left internationally. Over five days, participants explored questions about the state, social class, social movements, political parties, feminism and intersectional politics, eco-socialism, and much more.
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Host Shaun Matsheza discusses the 'last colonial curency', the CFA Franc, with Development Economist, Dr. Ndongo Samba Sylla.
Despite the political and institutional changes that occurred with Africa's decolonisation process in the second half of the 20th century, many colonial constructs remain to this very day. One of the most obvious and egregious symbols of these continuities is no doubt the CFA franc. The acronym of this currency created in 1945 by the French provisional government originally stood for franc of the French colonies in Africa. It still circulates in eight countries in West Africa and six countries in Central Africa, and its imperial founding principles haven’t really changed.
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Starting on May 17th; AEPF13 will be an exciting series of interlinked dialogues, workshops, actions, policy debates and open spaces!
More than 40 activities will be taking place during these 8 days, with a range of excellent speakers from across Asia and Europe.
Find more info and ways to register here.
The following speakers have already confirmed for our opening session:
Vandana Shiva (India), Jeremy Corbyn (UK), Sai Sam Kham (Myanmar),
Lidy Nacpil (The Philippines) and Charles Santiago (Malaysia)
17:00 CET
In this 3rd episode we will cover some of the second wave uprisings (2018-2021) in Algeria and Sudan and highlight some of the social and political struggles in Morocco in the last decade. We will also centre the decolonisation struggle of Western Sahara.
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The CLACSO “States in Dispute” Working Group, together with various academic spaces in Latin America, urgently calls on regional human rights bodies to promptly and effectively intervene in the face of the brutal police repression that has been unleashed in Colombia.
Read the statement in Spanish and English on their website.
Globally, more than 1.16 billion doses of Covid vaccine have been administered as of last Monday. Over 80 percent have gone to people in high- or upper-middle-income countries and only 0.2 percent to those in low-income countries like the Philippines.
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The military is taking the climate crisis seriously, but whose interests do their climate plans serve?
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