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.
Economics
Bill Mitchell: US labour market showing further signs of slowdown
Last Friday (September 3, 2022), the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released their latest labour market data – Employment Situation Summary – September 2022 – which reported a total payroll employment rise of only […]
EU politics
UCU: UK University workers to go on eight-day walkout over pay and pensions
This is the beginning of an important struggle: Universities as a place of learning or financialised degree machines. Read here
EU politics
Hungary Today: Only Austerity Measures Can Provide More Funding for Ukraine, EU Affairs Minister Warns
The government has published the report on EU funding for Ukraine and the European Commission’s demands for tax increases and austerity measures, the Minister for EU Affairs announced on his Facebook page on Wednesday. Read […]
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