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9 March 2023

Women’s right to land is the foundation for a better tomorrow

Kalpana Karki: “According to a study by the International Land Coalition, South Asia and Latin America exhibit the highest levels of agricultural land inequality, with the top 10 per cent of landowners capturing up to 75 per cent of agricultural land and the [...]Read the full article

An escalating arms race will not solve the world's multidimensional problems

23 February 2023

Human rights

An escalating arms race will not solve the world’s multidimensional problems

Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde: “The issues of security and wellbeing are not antithetical but are the two basic pillars of peace, both within and beyond the borders of all states.”Read the full article

The social and trade union movement wants to break the cycle of crises and interference in Haiti

16 February 2023

Politics & economy

The social and trade union movement wants to break the cycle of crises and interference in Haiti

Frédéric Thomas: The CTH (Haitian Workers’ Confederation) and the CTSP (Public and Private Sector Workers’ Confederation) reassert their firm anchorage in the Haitian social movement and their commitment to promoting a ‘transition of rupture’, with the support of an [...]Read the full article

With claims of mass workers shortages and layoffs in the US, we must read between the lines

26 January 2023

Labour

With claims of mass workers shortages and layoffs in the US, we must read between the lines

Daniel Kostzer: It is clear that the popular narrative about worker shortages and layoffs is aimed at building a cultural consensus against workers and the labour movement, and is based on biased, partial, and even contradictory [...]Read the full article

With workers locked-in to a future of continuing education, who will pay the bill?

12 January 2023

Labour

With workers locked-in to a future of continuing education, who will pay the bill?

Marga Zambrana: Experts and international organisations warn that only those who are able to quickly adapt to change through lifelong learning will survive.Read the full article

Earth Calling at COP15 – we're running out of chances to protect nature, land and the very soil beneath our feet

8 December 2022

Environment

Earth Calling at COP15 – we’re running out of chances to protect nature, land and the very soil beneath our feet

Alan McClay: “Success or failure with regards to the future of the world’s land and its ability to sustain life is one determining factor: soil health. The earth beneath our feet is so ubiquitous that it is easy to take it for granted, but it literally [...]Read the full article

Central American migrants to the United States face hardships on both their outward and return journeys

1 December 2022

Politics & economy

Central American migrants to the United States face hardships on both their outward and return journeys

Luis Linares: While the journey that migrants take to cross the US border can be perilous, those who are deported face another series of trials upon their return home, including stigma, shame, and difficulty reintegrating into families and finding [...]Read the full article

Celebrating 10 years of worker-powered global news at Equal Times – and here's to many more years of quality journalism

18 November 2022

Labour

Celebrating 10 years of worker-powered global news at Equal Times – and here’s to many more years of quality journalism

Tamara Gausi: As Equal Times turns 10 years old, its editors reflect on the online news platform’s past, present and future.Read the full article

China moves to displace Russia in the ‘New Great Game' in Central Asia

3 November 2022

Politics & economy

China moves to displace Russia in the ‘New Great Game’ in Central Asia

Juan Antonio Sanz: China has displaced Russia as the dominant power in Central Asia. It has done so thanks to its diplomatic and economic might. Russia’s decline highlights the fragility of relations with Central Asia based on Moscow’s military [...]Read the full article

Pushing back against China's debt-trap deniers

20 October 2022

Politics & economy

Pushing back against China’s debt-trap deniers

Paulo Casaca : Although China did not invent the concept of the ‘debt-trap’, as the world’s most important source of international development finance, China is currently the main international player of this centuries-old debt power [...]Read the full article

Resistance to greenwashing grows in the struggle for a liveable planet

6 October 2022

Environment

Resistance to greenwashing grows in the struggle for a liveable planet

Steve Rushton: “Since the 1980s, scientists have driven the response to the unfolding climate emergency. Countering this, an industrial complex has developed to deny what is happening and stymie meaningful action, funded by the world’s most profitable fossil [...]Read the full article

It's time to build a global arbitration system to defend workers' rights

8 September 2022

Labour

It’s time to build a global arbitration system to defend workers’ rights

Walton Pantland: Multinational corporations dominate the global economy, but labour laws exist at national level, with no international body to defend workers from violations in supply chains. How do we seek justice and remedy for the world’s [...]Read the full article

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