“Supporting this movement must not prevent us from combating ambiguities or, worse still, the positions of the antivax movement on the very need for vaccination.”
An open scenario, with nothing decided in Ecuador
10 August 2021, byBeyond the support of the traditional press and big commercial groups and the boost to its image received from sympathetic pollsters, the new Ecuadorian government of Guillermo Lasso starts with a certain political weakness. This stems from its origin.
Lasso reached the second round with less than 20% of the vote in the first round and with a minimal advantage over Yaku Pérez, Pachakutik’s candidate – even if we leave aside the refusal to count the votes, agreed between the CREO (...)
The single party system faced with the crisis
9 August 2021, by“It is time to debate this and organize ourselves to change it. It is possible now. As the president of the People’s Supreme Court declared to the international press, in Cuba the Constitution guarantees the right to peaceful demonstration.”
European Union, Libya: violence against migrants
8 August 2021, by“Fresh evidence of harrowing violations, including sexual violence, against men, women and children intercepted while crossing the Mediterranean Sea and forcibly returned to detention centres in Libya, highlights the horrifying consequences of Europe’s ongoing cooperation with Libya on migration and border control,” said Amnesty International in a report published today.
The Earth is Burning
7 August 2021, byThe latest stage of climate disaster, which threatens to unleash a cascade of unstoppable weather changes.
A Multitude in Precarious Conditions - On the Colombian Strikes
6 August 2021, by“Authoritarian rule threatens to truncate once again the invention of forms of life that go beyond mere survival. […] If the protests are forced under a single political and programmatic logic, all of this could result in a new collective frustration.”
A new political moment
5 August 2021, by“This new moment is one of controversy, it is open to all eventualities. What we hope for is possible, although it may also not happen. But as Alberto Flores Galindo would say, ‘there is room for hope’.”
The new civil war in Mozambique
4 August 2021, by“The best scenario is to create 10,000 jobs and end the war. The worst-case scenario is that Mozambique turns into a new Afghanistan.”
2021, the year of Israeli apartheid
3 August 2021, by ,“In 2021, the year of Israeli apartheid, that log jam has broken. This year, the world’s civil societies have had enough. Across countries and continents, across age groups and ethnicities, the marches, the manifestos, the opeds, the motions passed overwhelmingly have swelled into a torrent”
A New Wave of Mass Protests and Strikes
2 August 2021, by“Any effort to engage in solidarity with the struggles inside Iran begins not only with calling for the removal of U.S. sanctions and an end to Israel’s attacks, but also simultaneously holding the Iranian regime accountable for its repression and exploitation of the people and environment of the region.”