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 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
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
“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
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
Safety at work can be and already is being used as grounds for collecting and processing employees’ data, but the measures must be part of a rationale of prevention.Read the full article
The current debate is about the content of the term ‘sustainability’ and whether the solution to the environmental problems caused by the capitalist market economy is more market mechanisms.Read the full article
The conflict in southern Chile and Argentina, involving political radicalisation and violence, shines a spotlight on an existential problem in Latin America – what is the place of the millions of historically invisibilised Indigenous [...]Read the full article
The very systems that have made Hong Kong an open society, a remarkable success story and a free place distinctly different from repressed China, have all but disintegrated.Read the full article
The metaverse has been talked about only in terms of gee-whiz technologies – but it raises very serious labour concerns.Read the full article
Organising care on a not-for-profit basis is good for society, good for taxpayers, good for people who need care and support, and good for care workers.Read the full article
A key task for those elected is to rethink the development model that has been pursued for over 30 years, with appalling results. If we succeed in turning trade union proposals into public policy, the principles of ever more decent work will [...]Read the full article
