Disaster capitalism
What’s new in COVID TRIPS waiver negotiations?
Sangeeta Shashikant from the Third World Network looks at the position of different countries, how pharmaceuticals are profiting from the crisis, and the urgent need for the negotiations to be fast tracked and concluded.
Small vendors hard hit by government ordered demolitions in Zimbabwe
Human rights organizations allege that the Zimbabwe government is taking advantage of the lockdown powers to go on a demolition spree, displacing small vendors en masse
- Israeli tourists attack vigil in Cusco in support of Palestine
- During Red April, Brazil’s MST restates the importance of agrarian reform
- As elections approach, India’s farmers count government’s broken promises
- Argentine unions call another general strike for May 9
- German police shut down pro-Palestine conference
