The Covid-19 crisis, the most serious global health crisis in a century, forces us to fundamentally rethink the notion of international solidarity. Beyond the right to produce vaccines and medical equipment, it is the whole question of the right of poor countries to develop and to receive part of the tax revenues of the world’s multinationals and billionaires that must be asked. We need to move beyond the neo-colonial notion of international aid, paid at the whim of rich countries and under their control, and finally move towards a logic of rights.
National Politics
John Mearsheimer – Ukraine: Bound to Lose
Ukraine’s 2023 Counteroffensive – A lengthy but excellent analysis of how and why the Ukrainian “Spring Offensive” has ended in failure Read HERE
EU politics
Middle East Eye: France: MP told to ‘go back to Africa’ in parliament says racism growing across Europe
Carlos Martens Bilongo tells MEE the comment aimed at him by a far-right parliamentarian also exposes the increasing confidence of such forces in France Read Here
Corruption
Prem Sikka: The UK’s financial regulators are presiding over widespread corporate failure
As we are probably heading into the next financial crisis, afterwards there will be the great outcry concerning the lack of regulation. It never went away following the last financial crisis. Read here
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