IV555 - April 2021

“There are women of all ages who ventured into the streets for the first time in their lives, afraid they’d be standing alone in the central market of a small city, holding a lightning bolt sign. But they were never alone.”

“The whole world is watching. Until Black lives matter, no lives matter.”

“We must remember that the needs of those getting care and assistance must be at the forefront of all this discussion. The care sector needs to be transformed so that it serves the needs of people working there as well those that get support and assistance or all we will do is reproduce the problems that have existed in the system both historically and currently.”

Total, which operates Myanmar’s largest offshore gas field, is continuing to provide a revenue stream for the military regime, say company staff

Crocodile tears at the top of government and the military high command deploring the tragedy of the Tutsi genocide.

A background article concerning the 1994 Rwandan massacre and the role of France, an official report has just been published.

“Despite the defeat, organizing efforts will continue. Union organizers have learned again that workers have to organize the union themselves, by building a strong movement that can take action on shop floor.”

“The election of Lasso as president opens a new stage in the implementation of policies that will be even more favourable to Ecuadorian Big Capital, to foreign multinational corporations, to an alliance among right-wing presidents in Latin America and to the pursuit or indeed reinforcement of US domination on the continent.”

In this interview, Franck Gaudichaud considers the social and political dynamics of the recent period, and also current issues in the region.

“It implies that something has gone terribly wrong with the nation’s effort to break with its authoritarian past, and that the protesters, much like their predecessors in 1998, are flooding the streets to save the country from its undoing.”