In 2020 zijn de antiracismebewegingen in een stroomversnelling geraakt en daarmee ook het verzet tegen institutioneel racisme. Ondanks de geboekte vooruitgang blijven individualisme en fragmentatie de solidariteit ondermijnen en de antiracismebewegingen depolitiseren. Deze paper erkent de opeenstapeling van historische ontwikkelingen die bestaande denkrichtingen over antiracisme hebben beïnvloed. In de paper komen enkele van die bredere ontwikkelingen en tegenstrijdigheden aan bod. Ook wordt duidelijk waarom het belangrijk is ze te overwinnen als we de mogelijkheden van antiracistisch activisme optimaal willen benutten. Dat activisme moet een grootschalig socialistisch project zijn, met antiracisme als leidend principe.
Following the February coup, the violence used by the security forces against civilian protestors in Myanmar’s towns and cities has shocked public opinion around the world. But, as Naw Hsa Moo and Dominique Dillabough-Lefebvre explain in this commentary, such tactics have long been used by the Myanmar armed forces in military operations in the country’s ethnic states and regions. Awareness is now building and, as they argue, the military coup has brought new understanding and sympathy between pro-democracy and ethnic nationality movements.
En los últimos meses ha aumentado la preocupación hacia el Tratado sobre la Carta de la Energía (TCE) por el peligro que supone para las acciones climáticas urgentes, y cada vez se unen más voces contra el tratado, pero los que se benefician de él también han incrementado su propaganda, promoviendo una serie de mensajes falsos sobre cómo el TCE atrae las inversiones limpias y cómo su "modernización" solucionará cualquier defecto. Desmonta su retórica con nuestra nueva guía para derribar los mitos del TCE.
Join our 5-week online course for activists, trade unionists, policy-makers and journalists, to understand what makes the ECT dangerous, how the treaty is expanding and greenwashing its record, and what we can do about it.
Over the past decades, transnational “Big Tech” corporations based in the United States have amassed trillions of dollars and gained excessive powers to control everything, from business and labor to social media and entertainment. Digital colonialism is now engulfing the world.
How do we recover the emancipatory potential of technological change and bring it back under popular democratic control? As part of its Future Labs work, TNI is working with IT for Change to deepen our analysis and research on the impacts of rapid technological change in all of our areas of work. In 2021, TNI launched a series of essays in conjunction with ROAR magazine to stimulate debate and reflection.
The 1 February coup by the military State Administration Council has caused protest and confusion in Myanmar and around the world. In this commentary, Kyaw Lynn puts in context the complexity of factors, personal as much as institutional, that preceded the military takeover during a difficult time for democratic progress on the international stage. He then looks at the critical situation in Rakhine State, examining why political trends have been different to other ethnic states and regions in the country.
Para hacer frente a la crisis climática tenemos que dejar de usar fuentes de energía fósil y promover una transición energética justa. Pero los gobiernos que abandonan el carbón, acaben con la producción de gas o cancelen grandes infraestructuras de energías contaminantes pueden ser demandados por las empresas en tribunales privados y ser condenados a pagar miles de millones en daños. ¿Cómo? Usando el Tratado de la Carta de la Energía (TCE). Ahora depende de los gobiernos europeos y de la Comisión Europea salirse de este tratado contra el clima y frenar su expansión a más países. Actúa hoy para que esto ocurra.
The time has come for a transformation of Europe’s food systems. Small-scale food producers, peasants, community groups, environmental justice activists and others have been calling for years for a shift towards agriculture that nourishes communities, regenerates ecosystems, and provides decent and sustainable livelihoods. The concept of agroecology encompasses these ambitions, referring to the science, movement, and practice of working with nature to build food sovereignty. The climate crisis and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have only made it clearer how urgent such a transformation is.
Land politics – who controls what land, how is it used, for how long, for what purposes and to whose benefit – is a central pillar of this debate. As politicians across Europe struggle to balance the urgent need for climate action with the need to strengthen equity and popular support for new policies, the risk of societal discord looms large, fuelled by farmer protests, perceptions of ‘agri-bashing,’ and long-running tensions between conservation movements and agricultural communities. This has been made more complicated by the interweaving of questions of land and national identity and an apparently increasing disconnect between those living in rural and urban areas.
To tackle the climate crisis we need to keep fossil fuels in the ground. But governments that phase out coal, end gas production, or stop oil pipelines can be sued by corporations in private courts and be held liable for billions in damages. How? Under the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT). It is now up to European governments and the European Commission to pull out of the anti-climate ECT and stop its expansion to even more countries. Take action today to make this happen!
Corporations have stepped beyond lobbying governments. They are integrating in policy-making at the national and international levels. From agriculture to technology, decisions historically made by governments are increasingly made by secretive unaccountable bodies run by corporations.
The tunnel that we have had to pass through is a very long one… 70 plus years, and there is still no sign of light that we are nearing the end. The leaders have staunchly blocked the exit. No ordinary civilian can pass through, and those inside the tunnel only get to see glimpses of light through tiny holes now and then. By the time the leaders of our country have agreed and worked out their differences, it will be too late for those of us who have been suffocating inside the darkness for far too long.
This briefing profiles the leading US border security contractors, their related financial campaign contributions during the 2020 elections, and how they have shaped a bipartisan approach in favor of border militarization for more than three decades. It suggests that a real change in border and immigration policies will require the Democrats to break with the industry that helps finance them.
El presente informe examina las principales contratistas de seguridad de fronteras de Estados Unidos, sus contribuciones financieras durante las elecciones en 2020, y el modo en que han configurado un enfoque bipartidista a favor de la militarización de las fronteras durante más de 30 años. El informe sugiere que para lograr un verdadero cambio en las políticas de fronteras e inmigración los demócratas deberán romper con la industria que ayuda a financiarlas.
Today is Union Day in Myanmar, which marks the historic Panglong Agreement in February 1947 when the principles of equality and unity were drawn up for the future union. In 2021, however, it is not a day of celebration but one of protest as peoples across the country take to the street to demonstrate against the assumption of power by the military State Administrative Council. In this commentary, TNI analyses why the present crisis is so profound and why the patterns of military rule, state failure and ethnic conflict are in grave danger of being repeated. Peace and national reconciliation are required today, not at some indeterminate time in the future.
