Social Justice
EACOP project Uganda “The law is protecting Total”

Activists across Africa continue to mobilize against the expansion of extractive activities by energy giants Shell and Total in the region. Uganda has recently witnessed a series of student-led protests which have brought global attention to the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project

US Bureau of Engraving and Printing Are we living through a De-dollarization?

Until recently, the global economy accepted the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency and the currency of international transactions. But as the world becomes increasingly multipolar, how stable is the dollar’s hegemony?

Youth brigade from US in Cuba 150 young organizers from the US travel to Cuba defying the blockade

Over 150 young leaders from a variety of organizations in the US are in Cuba to participate in a solidarity brigade organized by the International Peoples’ Assembly. They are meeting with different sectors of Cuban society to learn about the impact of the US blockade and experiences in building socialism

50 years after Chile’s coup, the first year of Popular Unity

A conversation with Miguel Lawner, who remembers life as a former political prisoner of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship while projecting his hope that Salvador Allende’s government could improve the lives of Chileans onto the current progressive government

Pakistan IMF bailout As Pakistan moves towards another IMF bailout, more misery looms ahead for its people 

Islamabad is gearing up to implement tougher austerity measures in the hopes of accessing stalled IMF loan disbursements even as people in the country are facing food shortages and record levels of inflation 

Hundreds of thousands mobilize in Mexico City in support of President AMLO

Thousands gathered in Mexico City on Sunday to participate in the march called by President AMLO to commemorate his four years in office

The waters are running red in Africa’s Great Lakes region – a war is raging we can’t ignore any longer

Resources like cobalt, copper, lithium, and the trees of the rainforest continue to be exploited by the rest of the world despite the carnage that has afflicted Africa’s Great Lakes for the past 30 years

Peace summit Madrid Alternatives to a world at war divided in two

This weekend, a Peace Summit is organized in Madrid where various organizations and international movements will meet to oppose NATO and work together to organize the struggle for real security of the people and the planet

Is Israel practicing vaccine leadership or medical apartheid?

Beyond the headlines celebrating Israel’s vaccination rates, lies a story about health inequality with Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza bearing the brunt

How the privatization of medicine in India is accelerating its COVID-19 death toll

The COVID-19 crisis was an opportunity for the public systems to recapture their rightful position as the predominant health care providers in the country. But the public systems were unprepared for the task

Victims of nuclear bomb tests on US soil 75 years ago continue to seek justice

Before the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it conducted tests that have caused serious health issues to generations of New Mexico residents—who remain uncompensated

Belarus Elections Belarus elections may mark a key moment in European geopolitics

Five-time president Alexander Lukashenko is likely to win due to the lack of strong opposition candidates but the possibility of major protests remains. The country is a key part of both Russian and western strategies in the region