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The Second Wave of COVID-19: A Report from India

The Second Wave of COVID-19: A Report from India

Thousands dead and the rest pleading for oxygen and medical care, burning funeral pyres and bodies stacked up along public streets, cremation grounds meant for animals used for humans out of lack of space, hospitals running out of beds, families wailing as their relatives gasp for air, ambulances booked for

THE RISK IS (UN)REAL

THE RISK IS (UN)REAL

In an article published in the New York Times on the 12th of February, David Leonhardt reported on the latest round of restrictions imposed by Berkeley University, which prohibited outdoors exercise, even while wearing face masks, to prevent a further surge in Covid-19 cases. The measures taken were justified by

OPEN LETTER TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL OF THE UNITED NATIONS (regarding the resurgence of violence against social leaders in Colombia)

OPEN LETTER TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL OF THE UNITED NATIONS (regarding the resurgence of violence against social leaders in Colombia)

I am writing this letter in anguish and lament. Yet again, we are suffering the deaths of our social leaders. Yesterday, Francisco Giacometto Gomez was assassinated in the city of Bogota. Today, our communities in the department of Cauca heard tragic news of the assassination of Sandra Liliana Pena, compañera

#chinesevirus: The Long Racism that Lurks Behind COVID-19

#chinesevirus: The Long Racism that Lurks Behind COVID-19

According to a recent study that analysed tweets from 9 March to 23 March 2020, corresponding to the week before and the week after President Donald J. Trump’s tweet with the phrase, “Chinese Virus,” there was a significant increase in anti-Asian hashtags associated with #chinesevirus when comparing the week

Open letter to two young indigenous Ecuadorians

Open letter to two young indigenous Ecuadorians

My dear young friends, I appreciate the time you have spent conversing with me over these past few weeks, discussing the election process now underway in your country. As I told you then, I was truly perplexed by the international controversy among the various party families on the left regarding

Myanmar’s Diverse Revolution Digging in For the Long Haul

Myanmar’s Diverse Revolution Digging in For the Long Haul

Six weeks after Myanmar’s generals staged a coup d’état, all-out civil war is looming over the country while resistance is not abating. Far from it, Myanmar’s Spring Revolution is rapidly transforming into an ever more defiant and unified movement. This is despite – or rather because – of the

Chile’s constitutional battle: between neoliberal fascism and buen vivir

Chile’s constitutional battle: between neoliberal fascism and buen vivir

October 2019 marked a watershed in Chile´s recent history, as millions took the streets in almost four weeks, defying a military curfew and increasing police brutality. Synchronized with processes of social upheaval taking place in other latitudes from Hong Kong and Ecuador to the very core of the North