Egyptians suffer yet another IMF-instigated price hike
The fuel price hike is the fifth since the IMF increased its loan amount last year, conditional on the elimination of fuel subsidies and the sale of the public sector.
Las alucinaciones de la OTAN
Los ataques de Israel contra Irán, respaldados por Estados Unidos y la UE, violan el derecho internacional y buscan mantener el dominio regional socavando la soberanía de Irán, a pesar del cumplimiento por parte de este país de los acuerdos nucleares.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s hallucinations
Having agreed to increase their military spending to 5% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the European states have created a series of problems for themselves.
What are European leaders going to choose: people or war?
Belgian MEP Marc Botenga speaks about how European leaders are ramping up military spending and armament as the US led by Trump turns its back on them
Springtime for militarization, winter for social rights in Germany
With Germany’s election two weeks away, attention is on the far-right AfD, whose platform threatens migrant and social rights
One year after mass uprising, Sri Lanka’s political and economic crisis festers
Ahilan Kadirgamar, Senior Lecturer at the University of Jaffna, talks about the political and economic crisis in Sri Lanka, one year after the uprising that overthrew President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. He explains how the Ranil Wickremesinghe regime has combined repression with anti-people economic policies
Our fight is for the right to health, not for charity and mercy
Across the world, activists are struggling for the rejection of market economy theories and for establishing the theory of equity and justice to defend the right of people to health
What stands in the way of financing health for all?
Nicoletta Dentico, co-author of a report titled ‘Financial Justice for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response,’ talks about the structural factors that prevent adequate funding for health care across the world
IMF and World Bank: no to austerity, yes to stronger health systems
International financial institutions have shaped health systems, especially in the Global South, through programs of structural adjustment and austerity policies. It is imperative that these are replaced by pathways for strengthening public health systems and the social determinants of health
Tunisia’s largest trade union calls for national strike against President Saied’s economic policies
The government led by President Kais Saied has proposed massive cuts in basic subsidies and a freeze on wages of public sector employees to fulfill the main conditions for a fresh USD 4 billion loan from the IMF
Multiple protests hit Iraq over currency devaluation, non-payment of salaries
The government has tried to justify the currency devaluation as a necessary measure to prevent the country’s foreign reserves from running out. Other austerity measures have also been planned for the near future
- Brazil approves end to 6×1 work schedule and reduction of the work week to 40 hours
- Israel kills 31 people in Lebanon on the eve of Eid al-Adha
- Israel carries out sixth consecutive Eid massacre in Gaza
- Far-right Janez Janša to return for fourth government term in Slovenia
- With peace deal nearly final, US launches fresh attacks on Iran
