Plastic pollution not only threatens the job security of fishermen all around the world, it also endangers the food security and food safety of the whole planet.Read the full article
All the components of a global crisis are present in Venezuela: the international community is involved or feels it has to take sides, and some observers are speaking of a return to the Cold War. To what extent is the current situation driven by [...]Read the full article
Unless the government quickly and sincerely revives the social contract, labour unrest is likely to be a recurring feature of the months ahead.Read the full article
Taking Syria as a point of reference, Russia, Iran, the USA, Israel, Turkey – all the players, regional and global – are moving their pieces on the Middle East chessboard. But does this bode well for the [...]Read the full article
“The world should not list a democratic, feminist, refugee-welcoming and ecological revolution as terrorism.”Read the full article
“For those of us who are not Sudanese or who live outside Sudan, the uprisings might seem hard to reach. But some of the tools we need to practice solidarity are already in our grasp.”Read the full article
The ‘Declaration on the Rights of Peasants’ illustrates the concern within the United Nations, which has declared 2019 to 2028 ‘The Decade of Family Farming’.Read the full article
There is nothing complacent in the tone of the ILO Global Commission’s report on the future of work. Rejecting business as usual, it sows the seeds of hope for working people. The time has come for a reinvigorated social [...]Read the full article
Regardless of its weaknesses, the Stockholm Agreement is a first sign of hope for 29 million Yemenis who are desperately waiting for peace.Read the full article
“Flying is by no means normal. Rather, this fossil mobility system is highly exclusive.”Read the full article
“We are already seeing how autonomous systems are having a detrimental effect on workers. Especially those in non-unionised workplaces, where there are no check-and-balances in the form of organised labour, and no means to reach agreements to rectify [...]Read the full article
“Not only are workers left out of the productivity gains they help to create, the work they do is becoming less and less secure.”Read the full article
