Ten years ago, a young street vendor in Tunisia caused a political storm that would quickly spread throughout the Arab-speaking region in what is known as "the Arab Spring". Social eruptions and political protests continued to occur in country after country, and from region to region within the same country.

Migrants sit on the side of a road as they wait for work, following the outbreak of Covid-19, Misrata, Libya, 2 May 2020. Reuters, Ayman Al-Sahili.
Each new day brings news of more cases of Covid-19, with a mounting number of infected people and a mounting death toll. In recent months many (...)

On this 17th of October, International Day for Poor People, noble and well-intentioned beautiful declarations will be made to honour people rendered and living in poverty. However, if we want to help them, we need to go and look at the winners and tax them. And change the system.

Facing a global health crisis related to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on people, governments have resorted to restrictive measures including state of emergency, social distancing and the use of advanced technological tools. While these measures seem to be vital in avoiding the spread (...)

In this text, Débora Maria da Silva - founding member of the Movimento Independente Mães de Maio - looks back on the 14th anniversary of the May Crimes in Brazil, the police violence, the denial of democracy to the black population and the murderous management of the health crisis triggered by the arrival of Covid-19 in Brazil.

Based on the reading of Kyle Harper’s book on the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the text offers free reflections in these uncertain times.

The reflection focuses on the loss of resilience and the fall of the American Empire, as well as the shift of the centre of the world and the rise of Asia. This places the overcoming of capitalism on the horizon, which also leads us to revisit the understanding of transitions between civilizations and to resit the collapse as a passage to the emergence of new civilizations.

This report is the result of fieldwork carried out between October 2019 and December 2019 in partnership with the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights and the Euro-African network Migreurop. During this mission, 90 interviews were conducted with migrants, representatives of local and international NGOs, researchers, activists, lawyers, journalists and institutional actors at both national and local levels.

The allusion to peace as a state of harmony within an established order, has long been an indispensable tool in the arsenal of colonialism and racism.

To fight this kind of "peace", a decolonial and decolonizing sense of peace is found in the love and rage of those who come together to make visible the war that has been perpetuated by profoundly misguided conceptions of law and order. To be in peace is to move with others against modern/colonial law and order, including its institutional, symbolic, and epistemological foundations.

Today, we’re being urged to think and build a future liberated from fossil capitalism, or else our world will eventually end up in ruins — the stakes are high, but this is worth the fight!

The coronavirus pandemic will have lasting and dramatic consequences on people’s living conditions. This is the first international crisis with such general and far-reaching effects all over the world within such a short lapse of time. More will be affected than in the Second World War, not in terms of the death toll, which fortunately will be much lower, but in terms of the simultaneity of the crisis worldwide and the kind of measures implemented by governments.

François Houtart died in June 2016, leaving a considerable work and a legacy for interpreters and researchers who want to bring their contribution to a more just and cohesive world. This article analyzes the fundamental principles of his work and his contributions to contemporary social sciences.

In Brazil, fighting the spread of Covid-19 also means fighting President Jair Bolsonaro, who continues to deny the seriousness of the virus. In this context, Brazil’s vulnerable populations - including indigenous peoples - are even more affected.

Rampant populism, identity politics, widespread disinformation, xenophobia and Islamophobia that fuel growing far right extremist violence around the world have created one of the most complex security challenges in recent years. The US considers white supremacist violent extremism a major (...)

This week, with the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Atlanta anticipating sharply lower GDP growth for 2019:Q1, President Trump presented a ‘Budget for A Better America’, calling for a smaller government and a bigger military.