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Published in: Home: OpinionWhy coronavirus hasn’t stopped Hong Kong’s protest movement
Governments are seizing the opportunity to grab power amid the crisis. Hong Kong offers a model for resistance.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhy are a third of UK COVID-19 patients ethnic minority?
People of colour are being hit disproportionately by this crisis. Why?
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionCorbyn wasn't all bad
Labour has to learn from the successes as well as the failures of the past.
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Published in: ourEconomyWill Zimbabwe’s diamonds be forever? A glimpse into a nation’s resource rich curse
Murky deals with Russian and Chinese firms mean super-exploitation in Zimbabwe's communities and super-profits for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionSocial security needs a massive boost to help people through this crisis
A million more thrown into the benefit system. 14 million in the UK already poverty before coronavirus struck. It’s...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionHow my north Texas students taught me ‘we’re all in the same boat’ is a lie
Asking big questions and learning from our different experiences are the first steps to a better world beyond coronavirus.
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Published in: 50.50Millions may struggle to access contraception and abortion amidst COVID-19
Travel restrictions and border closures are causing clinic closures and shortages of contraceptives and HIV...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionAfter the pandemic: a ten-point plan for the collective provision of basic needs
The coronavirus has made the foundational economy highly visible. Policy makers need to focus on these essential...
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Published in: HomeGenocide is not an Essential Service
"We are doing this to save humanity…. If we destroy the Earth, the Earth will recover; … we won’t. The Earth doesn’t...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationCleaners forced to work in empty Houses of Parliament
MPs slam Commons authorities, say outsourced low-paid workers are being put in ‘unnecessary danger’
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Published in: Pandemic BordersAt times of a pandemic: transnational solidarity not national borders
At the time of Covid-19 global pandemic, citizenship and national borders should not become defining elements of our...
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Published in: 50.50Alarm as 2 billion people have parliaments shut or limited by COVID-19
Democracy groups warn of 'significant risks' to rights around the world as a growing number of parliaments shut down...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe Bernie Sanders campaign is over, but the fault lines of US politics have changed
The Vermont Senator is no longer in the race to the White House, but his movement continues to provide the only...
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Published in: Home: OpinionShaping a new social contract through the pandemic
The actions of governments, business, investors and civil society in response to COVID-19 will shape our futures.
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Published in: openJustice: OpinionDisposable lives: how the plight of immigration detainees is highlighted during COVID-19
The UK government’s continued use of immigration detention lacks moral and legal justification. But it comes as no surprise.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionPandenomics: a story of life versus growth
The clash between business-as-usual economics and the pandemic shows what we really need from our economy.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The applause for society’s vital workforce rings hollow. Give them a raise instead
They deserve support in their fight for living wages and working conditions.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?France’s Far West: don’t let you take my kindness for weakness
“ The right does not intend that the ‘after Covid’ should correct the mistakes of the ‘before’.”
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Angela Merkel urged to put European solidarity over German interests
500+ lawmakers and academics call for entire eurozone to share the cost of the pandemic with the use of euro bonds.
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionQuarantine in Venezuela: the war against society by other means
The response of the Chavista state to Covid-19 goes no further than repeating its authoritarian patterns of...