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Women have always been at the forefront of Sudanese resistance
Shadia Abdel Moneim 06/12/21
A military coup carried out last month threatens to roll back the gains made in the 2019 revolution that overthrew al-Bashir’s brutal regime. Protests against authoritarianism and military regimes are not new to Sudan. Even the revolution that (...)
Zimbabwe citizens demand accountability from government over debt in a landmark (...)
Kudzai Chimhangwa 28/12/20
Crippling debt and endemic corruption are all too familiar stories, but the ruling marks a small victory in the quest for transparency. Crippling debt, lack of transparency and endemic corruption are sadly all too familiar stories in southern (...)
Is Lebanon becoming a police state ?
Walid el Houri 19/10/20
A year after protests swept the country, two and a half months after the Beirut port explosion, the Lebanese elite is cracking down on dissent. In the twelve months since protests lit the country, Lebanon has fallen head first into a spiral of (...)
TikTok, Trump and the need for a digital non-aligned movement
Juan Ortiz Freuler 18/08/20
As we enter a new digital cold war, it’s time for a new non-aligned movement to operate as a buffer between the U.S. and China to protect the value of an open Internet. Recent weeks have seen a dramatic escalation in the U.S.’ stance towards tech (...)
Brazil feels the consequences of pandemic populism
Miguel Lago, Robert Muggah 23/07/20
Brazil has the public, private and nonprofit capability to contain and control the virus. It desperately lacks the leadership to bring this about. The only surprise about Jair Bolsonaro’s diagnosis for COVID-19 was that it took him so long to (...)
Covid-19 pandemic reveals and exacerbates the crisis of care
Karina Battyany 10/05/20
Care, not the market, is the central organizing axis of community life. The inability of states and governments to discern the structural dimension of care causes great concern. Covid-19, like all pandemics, disrupts our customary ways of (...)
The Arab world between a formidable virus and a repressive state
Larbi Sadiki , Layla Saleh 10/05/20
What does the coronavirus pandemic spell for democracy in the Arab world ? How is the coronavirus pandemic forcing a rethinking of the configurations of power in the Arab world ? And how could this impact on the quest for democratic politics in (...)
How the commodification of knowledge is creating a new age of colonialism
Radmir Khajbakhteev 11/02/20
By becoming passive consumers of knowledge produced in the global north, developing countries are slowly being recolonized. This article is part of our Economy’s ’Decolonising the economy’ series. The 2008 global financial crisis revealed that (...)
Anti-colonial feminist collective « La Cole » are leading the Puerto Rican (...)
Aurora Santiago-Ortiz 10/02/20
The anti-colonial feminist collective « La Colectiva Feminista en Construcción » were pivotal in the ouster of Ricardo Rosselló and remain on the front lines demanding a more just economy. Puerto Rico, a colonial territory of the US since 1898, (...)
El feminismo anticolonial que sacude Puerto Rico
Aurora Santiago-Ortiz 10/02/20
La Cole, un colectivo feminista anticolonial, fue clave en la destitución de Ricardo Rosselló como gobernador de Puerto Rico. Hoy es una fuerza política clave en la denuncia del colonialismo que sigue ejerciendo Estados Unidos. Puerto Rico, (...)