LGBTQ+ is not foreign to Africa. Bigotry against it was imported by the earliest European invaders. And the queer and trans community is fighting back.
International
Fuel prices — an incendiary global issue
Corporate profits and oligarchs, not scarcity, are the main cause of gas hikes worldwide. Rebellion and a publicly-owned energy industry worldwide is the answer.
World Beat
Sparks fly between China and U.S. over Taiwan; A landslide victory for reaction in the Philippines; Revolution betrayed in Nicaragua.
The truth about microcredit
A feel-good neoliberal fairy tale that is to be smoke and mirrors. In reality, poor people in Latin America and Africa are preyed upon these predatory lenders.
End the carnage at the border
No more deaths! Stop racist Border Patrol terror!
Colonialism’s poison-pill exit from India
The religious, patriarchal and ethnic violence unleashed by Britain’s partition of India in 1947 is alive and well today.
Fix Victoria’s bail laws now!
“It’s absolutely time to expose Victoria’s bail laws for what they are: a very profitable pipeline to prison.”
US Congress ruthlessly slashes Covid funding
U.S. politicians and big business have made it clear. Their money is for war, not healthcare.
Academics fortify boycott of Israel
Good news! The U.S. Middle East Studies Association has voted to join other scholars refusing to collaborate with Israel’s military occupation.
Labor fightback news
Fired tortilla chip makers in Chicago demand jobs back; rising costs fuel a teacher strike in North Macedonia; young mechanics organize in Portland, Oregon.