In April, one of my tooth fillings came out. When I called the dentist, they explained there were no appointments, because of the pandemic. Steve Latham I didn’t blame them. Dentists are always vulnerable to respiratory diseases. So, while bending over patients’ gaping mouths, Covid puts them especially […]
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The challenges of the Biden era
It is easy to be seduced by the illusion that Trump constitutes the United States main problem, something that the new administration under Joe Biden has to resolve starting now. But this idea is just a soothing mechanism sold by the media.
Mining giants investigated for human rights violations
OECD asked to investigate human rights abuses filed against the owners of Cerrejón coal mine; BHP, Anglo American and Glencore. Parallel complaints also filed in Ireland against state owned-company for purchasing coal and Dublin-based sales wing of mining enterprise. Multiple National Contact Points (NCPs) of the Organisation for Economic […]
The left’s post-pandemic challenge
In critical situations similar to the current one, there have always been at least three alternatives. Radical system change (revolution), extreme hardening of capitalism (barbarity), or reform of the social order (capital-labour pact). Juan Diego García Since the acute system crises of the nineteenth century, these three alternatives […]
Immigrants in Covid times: “I thought I would die”
Carlos Corredor contracted the coronavirus after travelling on public transport in London. When the fever passed 40 degrees, he thought he was going to die alone, in a foreign country and without the opportunity to say goodbye to his family. Now he is scared of contracting the virus a second […]