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South Asia
Economy
2023-03-29

Sri Lanka’s great IMF lie

Decades of looking to the IMF for salvation has yielded only crises. Sri Lanka’s economic crisis demands urgent relief measures for a desperate citizenry and a new, self-sufficient model of development.
Europe
Statements
2023-03-28

We Stand with Jeremy Corbyn

"In defence of decency, and for the future of socialism in Britain and around the world."
Europe
Migration
2023-03-27

The European Union Is Stepping Up Its War on Refugees

A special EU summit in Brussels last month committed to increasing funds for border surveillance and the deportation of refugees. It’s the latest in Europe’s ongoing project of hardening its borders in flagrant disregard for human life.
Europe
War & Peace
2023-03-23

Britain is supplying depleted uranium rounds to Ukraine

British tanks gifted to Ukraine will come equipped with controversial depleted uranium rounds.
Africa
Social Justice
2023-03-22

The structural adjustment of education

The COVID-19 pandemic is the easy culprit of the global learning crisis, but that is only half of the story.
Latin America
Politics
2023-03-20

No, AMLO Is Not Undermining Mexican Democracy

The international press is again bludgeoning Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, this time accusing him of attacking the country’s democratic institutions. It’s a baseless charge intended to undermine a government that refuses total obedience to US hegemony.
Europe
Statements
2023-03-17

“A real denial of democracy”

A statement by the intersyndicale, the united front of all major French trade unions, after French President Emmanuel Macron passed his unpopular pension reform by decree.
Global
Statements
2023-03-15

Thomas Sankara: Better one step forward with the people than ten steps without!

The speech delivered by Burkina Faso's Thomas Sankara at the Non-Aligned Movement Summit in New Delhi in March 1983.
Northern America
Environment
2023-03-08

The Ohio Derailment Catastrophe Is a Case Study in Disaster Capitalism

Rail workers say the industry has long ignored pleas for better safety protocols.
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