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- Indigenous trade unionists from around the world call for more inclusion and solidarity: “We are not just there to sing the songs and do the opening prayer”Indigenous peoples are often among the workers most discriminated against and in the most precarious jobs, but they have an ally in the trade union movement to help defend their rights and improve their social and working conditions. Māori, Sami [...]
- Aída Ponce del Castillo, researcher: “CEOs like Sam Altman of OpenAI can negotiate with a state as if they themselves were a state. What are the consequences for democratic governance?”“Neither self-regulation nor ethical guidelines work when it comes to labour. Only laws do.”
- Helena Silvestre: “Occupation enables us to take part in the birth of a neighbourhood and think about new ways of living together”“Maybe it’s not the right to the city that we need. […] the city represents a form of accumulation that feeds on the extraction of everything around it: the favelas, the occupations and the countryside.”
- Alondra Carrillo: “We are currently witnessing an acceleration of authoritarianism and the deprivation of fundamental rights”“In addition to being a health crisis, the pandemic has resulted in a global restructuring of our living and working conditions,” says Chilean psychologist Alondra Carrillo, former spokesperson for the Coordinadora Feminista 8M and member of the [...]
- Refugees on the Belarus-Poland migration route come up against a steel wall and the wilds of the Bialowieza ForestSince 2022, Poland has been presenting itself as a land of solidarity, having welcomed 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees. This solidarity stands in stark contrast with the reality faced by the people crossing the Bialowieza Forest as migrants and [...]
- The Kuwaiti Bidoon: neither nationals nor foreignersNot registered with the nationality committees set up to take a census of Kuwait’s inhabitants when the country gained independence in 1961, those known in Arabic as the ‘Bidoon’ are now undocumented in their own [...]