Mirroring the dynamics of colonial-era plunder, international trade involves a systematic transfer of wealth and labour from the Global South to the Global North. Ben Radford reports.
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Thousands of small farmers, landless peasants and agricultural workerscame from across Pakistan on October 6 to demand a minimum support price for their produce and an end to corporate farming and land grabs, reports Susan Price.
Civil society organisations are calling on the governmentΒ to join the growing number of countries supporting a patent waiver on the COVID-19 vaccine, reports Jim McIlroy.
As theΒ daily death toll in India from COVID-19 reachesΒ 3700 people, the headlines describing the situation there as an βapocalypseβ are not wrong, writesΒ Divya Garg.
The Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions (ATTAC) is an international movement for social, environmental and democratic alternatives that organises against free trade policies that grant huge powers to corporations at the expense of people and the planet.