Juan Antonio Sanz:The bid for European defence rests on greater independence from NATO and the development of its own programmes for the collective security of its members. The idea is that such military cooperation should also contribute to advancing the complex [...]Read the full article
Clean Clothes Campaign:“It is crystal clear that neither minimum wages nor workers’ actual wages are anywhere near any living wage benchmark, and H&M has the responsibility to close the gap.”Read the full article
Andrew Firmin:“We need to see direct democracy, including referendums, as presenting crucial tipping points for participation – as opportunities to mobilise and recruit support for progressive causes, build new coalitions and show civil society’s work at its [...]Read the full article
Peter Murphy:The mobilisation of the international community to stand in solidarity with the Filipino people against the Duterte administration and its support from President Trump is a major objective of the Tribunal. Trade unions have a strong role to play [...]Read the full article
Claude Kabemba:While the new mining code may have ensured the government get more returns, recent developments suggest these will remain in a few select hands, and that deals continue to be made between powerful individuals behind closed [...]Read the full article
César Muñoz Acebes:The large influx of immigrants has a clear impact on a small town like Pacaraima, but Brazilians should direct their outrage at the Maduro government – not its victims.Read the full article
Emily Kawano :Rather than making a virtue out of the pursuit of calculated self-interest, profit maximisation and competition, this economy nurtures our capacity for solidarity, cooperation, reciprocity, mutual aid, altruism, caring, sharing, compassion and [...]Read the full article
Rami G. Khouri:Rebuilding citizen trust in political institutions will require both economic and political measures in a genuinely consultative context, rather than the usual top-down edicts from the government or benevolent gestures from the [...]Read the full article
Antonello Mangano:As these workers are often employed by the caporalato (gangmasters) who run a system of minimum payment and maximum exploitation, the victims of labour exploitation are often unrecorded by official [...]Read the full article
Andrés Ortega:Many people in Silicon Valley do not want to participate in programs for the battlefield or promote excessive war or security technology. The movement against autonomous weapons, the so-called “killer robots”, is growing, and not only in the [...]Read the full article
Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie :Transforming these states of fragility isn’t the job of just the woman or man at the top – all of society has to dig in.Read the full article
Chloé Maurel:“There is a deeply unjust imbalance: a victim of a multinational cannot apply to any court for justice, while a multinational can turn against states via private arbitration tribunals.”Read the full article
