In 2017, we marked 43 years of critical thinking, exposing the underlying causes of today’s authoritarian politics, and putting forward the real solutions we need.
Corporate control of the food system in the US continues to undermine the livelihoods of farmers, farmworkers, fisherpeople, communities of color, and indigenous peoples in the US, but there are also increasing examples of community-based resistance, grassroots solidarity, and broad-based alliances that are resisting the corporate takeover.
Corporate Europe Observatory et le Transnational Institute, engagés de longue date dans les luttes pour la republicisation de l’eau, en Europe et dans le monde, viennent d’ouvrir le site remunicipalisation.org qui présente une cartographie mondiale des collectivités qui ont repris la maîtrise publique de leurs services d’eau.
Ignoring all the scientific evidence, Canada Health Minister Tony Clement will move to close Canada's only sanctioned safe-injection site, announcing it will appeal a British Colombia court ruling that Vancouver's Insite should stay open because reducing the risk of drug overdoses is a vital health service.
In January 1974, Eqbal Ahmad wrote minister of Education in the Netherlands to inform him of the establishment of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. This is the original letter.
