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Indonesia’s export ban on raw minerals
Rachmi Hertanti 03/07/23
Between a mineral and a hard place. In the era of the energy transition, questions of state control and power are back on the agenda in a big way. All of these dynamics are coming to the fore now, particularly as the US and the EU – seeking to (...)
Lessons from the Indian Farmers’ Movement
Amod Shah, Katie Sandwel 01/06/23
Emerging solidarities in the Kisan Andolan This issue brief explores the frameworks and processes of alliance formation that contributed to the remarkable success of the Kisan Andolan. Introduction Large protests by Indian farmers in 2020 and (...)
Digital Ecosocialism : Breaking the power of Big Tech
Michael Kwet, Transnational Institute 07/06/22
We can no longer ignore the role of Big Tech in entrenching global inequality. To curtail the forces of digital capitalism, we need an ecosocialist Digital Tech Deal. This article by Michael Kwet and illustration by Zoran Svilar were originally (...)
The 2019 Iraqi uprising and the feminist imagination
Zahra Ali 18/11/21
In ‘Uhud Mountain’ – a tall, abandoned building in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, facing the Green Zone – young men and women protestors who had taken over the building chanted Inryd watan (We want a country) and Nazel akhuz haqqy (I am coming (...)
Colombia’s popular uprisings
Danilo Urrea, Lyda Fernanda Forero 29/06/21
As Popular Uprisings continue across Colombia, they have been met with brutal repression from an alliance of neoliberal, right-wing and extreme-right forces. Who are the people involved ? How did we get here ? And what’s the way out ? Recent (...)
Deep and comprehensive dependency : How a trade agreement with the EU could (...)
09/12/20
Tunisia has undergone radical changes in the past decade, and faces more in the years to come, if the EU has its way. As the first country to topple its dictator in early 2011, it set off a chain of revolutions across North Africa and West Asia (...)
Latin America’s battle with COVID-19 is being hampered by international (...)
Bettina Müller, Cecilia Olivet 25/08/20
Peru, Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia and Guatemala are just some of the Latin American countries being hit by the investment protection regime in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Foreign investors are threatening to bring claims before (...)
The Corporation : State of Power 2020
27/01/20
The Corporation is capitalism’s preeminent institution, dominating our economy, distorting our politics and reshaping society. TNI’s ninth flagship State of Power report delves deep into the changing nature of the corporation in a time of (...)
Sentinels of Privilege and the Ressentiment of the Powerful : The New Right in (...)
Kurt Shaw, Rita de Cácia Oenning da Silva 21/06/18
The idea for our documentary was really quite simple. Children from a favela would make a short fictional film in which they showed how they imagined rich kids lived, while a group of children living in an upper-middle-class condominium made one (...)
Marching forward : Women, resistance and counter-power
26/01/18
If we learnt anything in 2017 in the aftermath of Trump’s election shock, it was that the face of resistance to today’s autocrats would be that of a woman. Women were the first to take to the streets the day after Trump was inaugurated in the (...)