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Comorian healthworkers strike against wage inequality

Paul Martial — 2026-04-30T10:25:49Z

A strike of unprecedented magnitude is shaking the main hospital in the Comoros. The issue: the fight for equal pay, regardless of status.

17,000 households deliberately deprived of water

Amandla! — 2026-04-26T09:30:40Z

Amandla! Interviewed Nqobile Ndima, an activist in the struggle for water in Phumlamqashi informal settlement near the Lenasia suburb, in the provice of Gauteng.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / South Africa, Public services

From Michigan to Argentina: Nurses' Struggles and International Solidarity

Collective — 2026-03-14T17:43:16Z

“It's the workers of the hospital that know best how to run it. Of course, there are different ideas but we have the experience of working together. That's where the health team comes together to figure out how best to care for the patient and involve the family in a discussion.”

- Feminism / United States (USA), Women, Argentina, Public services

Nurses Leading the Class Struggle and Resistance to ICE

Dan La Botz — 2026-02-22T11:05:09Z

“ICE is a public health crisis because patients are afraid to seek care because they're afraid to go outside. People in the hospital should feel like they can seek care and not be in fear of persecution.”

- IVP613 - February 2026 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing, Public services

Kyiv in crisis: how wild capitalism is exacerbating the devastation

Vitaliy Dudin — 2026-01-19T22:22:35Z

The year 2026 began with devastating Russian shelling of Kyiv's infrastructure, which, in freezing conditions, brought the population to the brink of survival. The city, home to 3 million people, is experiencing an acute shortage of heat and water, and electricity is being supplied on a short-term basis. It has become clear that the authorities had no plan B in case of a catastrophic deterioration in the security and weather situation.

- IVP612 - January 2026 / Ukraine, Public services

Two Narratives on the Hong Kong Fire

Au Loong-Yu — 2025-12-24T08:33:58Z

The 26 November 2025 Wang Fu Court fire has a lot of similarity with London's 2017 Grenfell fire. In terms of scale, the former was much bigger – instead of just one building there were seven on fire, and instead of 72 deaths there have been 160 deaths as of now. However, the combustible materials used in renovating the outer walls were the direct cause of both.

- IVP611 - December 2025 / Hong Kong, Public services

Relentless dismantling of the public education service in Greece

Andreas Sartzekis — 2025-12-02T07:31:54Z

In his obsession with privatizing education, Prime Minister Mitsotakis is intensifying and diversifying attacks to dramatically reduce public services. The mobilization commemorating the massacre of the Polytechnic students on November 17, 1973, is a significant event.

- IVP611 - December 2025 / Greece, Public services

Free public transport in Ukraine

Denys Gorbach, Simon Pirani — 2025-11-19T15:35:31Z

The common weal versus capitalist modernity.
Free public transport can open cities to all. It combats social injustice and can also help to tackle climate change, by moving away from car-centred urban transport systems.
Public transport has been made free in more than 130 municipalities in Brazil – and, in Europe, Luxembourg; Tallinn, Estonia; Belgrade, Serbia and several French cities.
In this interview, the writer and activist Denys Gorbach talks with Dr Simon Pirani about Kryvyi (…)

- Features / Ecology and the Environment, Ukraine, Public services

Trump Takes Food from the Poor Poor during Budget Crisis

Dan La Botz — 2025-11-03T09:39:20Z

President Donald Trump has taken advantage of the current budget crisis, which has lasted more than a month, shutting down the federal government, to stop funding food programs that affect tens of million. Trump said the shutdown provided an opportunity to close “Democrat programs that we want to close up or we never wanted to happen.” By “Democrat programs” he means social welfare programs that provide food and education to low-income people.

- IVP610 - November 2025 / United States (USA), Public services

Because it won't be the last blackout: What energy model and distribution system for the ecological transition?

Daniel Albarracín — 2025-06-17T04:46:07Z

The blackout of April 28 shook the Iberian Peninsula and southern France for several hours. Everyone who lives there was affected in some way. It has been a topic of conversation that, to avoid remaining an anecdote, requires some in-depth analysis, given the systemic risks of a repeat. We must draw lessons for the future.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Spanish state, Ecology and the Environment, Public services