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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Covid19: a checkmate of the West?This is a radical challenge. The West is certainly going to lose if its politicians, academics and civil servants...
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Published in: ourEconomyA spectre is haunting the West – the spectre of authoritarian capitalismFrom coronavirus to climate change, China is surging ahead of the US and its allies. Are we witnessing the slow...
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhy coronavirus hasn’t stopped Hong Kong’s protest movementGovernments are seizing the opportunity to grab power amid the crisis. Hong Kong offers a model for resistance.
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Published in: ourEconomyWill Zimbabwe’s diamonds be forever? A glimpse into a nation’s resource rich curseMurky deals with Russian and Chinese firms mean super-exploitation in Zimbabwe's communities and super-profits for...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWe need to ramp up global public spending to fight COVID-19The pandemic has shown us that global solidarity is not a nice idea – it is a necessity.
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Published in: 50.50Alarm as 2 billion people have parliaments shut or limited by COVID-19Democracy groups warn of 'significant risks' to rights around the world as a growing number of parliaments shut down...
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Published in: Home: OpinionShaping a new social contract through the pandemicThe actions of governments, business, investors and civil society in response to COVID-19 will shape our futures.
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Published in: HomeThe impact of COVID-19 is all down to inequalityCoronavirus must change the neoliberal rationale, and rescue the social contract between the welfare state and the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The surveillance industry won’t save us from crisesTurning to the security industry isn’t the solution: it’s a symptom of the problem.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?COVID-19: on the epistemic conditionIndigenous cosmologies have always argued that we must treat the world as an interconnected, living organism with...
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Published in: HomeSign up to our coronavirus DemocracyWatch newsletterRegimes around the world are rushing through anti-democratic measures. Sign up to our newsletter to follow the crackdown.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWhat does the coronavirus tell us about the West’s image of Asia – and itself?In a time of pandemic and radical uncertainty, we face tests of individualism, governance, globalised capitalism,...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe US-China coronavirus feud leaves us all worse offAs tensions rise between China and the US, workers on both sides will be the ultimate losers.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionCan the coronavirus save the planet?The corona crisis signifies a civilization that is dying. But it also shows a 'pluriverse' of other worlds rising up.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionEvery cent lost to tax havens could be used to strengthen our health and social systemsIt’s women in the informal sector who are suffering the harshest effects of our broken tax system.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe coronavirus crisis shows it's time to abolish the familyWhat does the pandemic tell us about the nuclear family and private household?
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Published in: openMovementsVirus: all that is solid melts in the airIs it easier to ascertain the truthfulness and quality of a society’s institutions under normal daily circumstances...
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Published in: openMovementsDemocratic horizons in times of corona governanceGatekeepers of the present order adapt efficiently. But others can open up a plurality of futures.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?On the edges of democracy: mobilizing health and care as a common goodIn the moment of the ‘corona crisis’, autocratic tendencies are cropping up, hitting those who are the least...
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Published in: ourEconomyThe social support networks stepping up in coronavirus-stricken ChinaBelow the sweeping centralized measures, decentralized networks have provided relief to thousands.
