Anti-immigrant protests and violence escalate in South Africa
Anti-migrant marches have spread across several cities in South Africa in recent weeks, with some turning violent against African migrants amid rising economic tensions.
Rap and radical consciousness: Milwaukee’s Blicky B
Blicky B is a politically conscious rap artist in Wisconsin. Her music explores themes like poverty, capitalism, and the Palestinian liberation struggle.
The war on drugs or the war on the poor?
If the goal is to end violence and economic dependence on coca cultivation, then the starting point should not be militarization or eradication, but the reconstruction of rural life.
Washington’s war on sovereignty and development in Venezuela
The war on Venezuela is a war on the very idea that the people of the Global South can convert their wealth into sovereignty, and sovereignty into a different future.
Half of the world’s population owns just 2% of global wealth, UN report finds
Rising inequality is reinforced by the global financial system, which privileges the wealthier countries and compels the poorer nations to transfer a substantial part of their national income to them.
Poverty in Latin America is declining, but not evenly
Latin America finds itself in an interesting predicament. While only the progressive governments are making progress on poverty alleviation, many countries seem to be moving to the right.
BRICS People’s Summit discusses cooperation and multipolarity to strengthen developing countries
Researchers and representatives of civil society advocated for cooperation between the countries and the strengthening of social struggles on the bloc’s agenda.
Converging crises: climate, poverty and the failure of green capitalism
The climate hazards faced by the global poor, carefully described in the UNDP report, are not a coincidental injustice. They are the direct result of the core logic of capital accumulation pursued by the ruling classes of the Global North and South.
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.
World Bank acknowledges poverty increase in Nigeria, but doubles down on the reforms causing it
Acknowledging that the implementation of its reforms coincided with an increase in poverty, the World Bank nevertheless calls on Nigeria to stay the course.
Philadelphia public transit “death spiral” is a warning for other underfunded cities across the US
As students and workers struggled to commute amid SEPTA cuts, a sports betting firm paid to move Eagles fans, laying bare Philadelphia’s transit crisis
Qué significa para Sri Lanka la detención de un expresidente
El expresidente de Sri Lanka y “avatar del neoliberalismo” Ranil Wickremesinghe está siendo acusado de malversación de fondos públicos.
- 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
