As of June 18, Brazil is reporting 955,377 confirmed coronavirus infections and 45,510 Covid-19 deaths, second only to the United States and assumed to significantly undercount the real totals. Far-right President Jair […]
Sônia Guajajara: Indigenous women in Brazil leading in the fight for justice (part 2)
Sônia Guajajara: Indigenous women in Brazil leading in the fight for justice (part 1)
As of June 16, Brazil is reporting 888,271 confirmed coronavirus infections and 43,959 Covid-19 deaths, second only to the United States and assumed to significantly undercount the real totals. Far-right President Jair […]
Gippò Mukendi Ngandu: Racial Oppression and the Police in Italy
As of June 15, Italy is reporting 236,989 coronavirus infections and 34,345 Covid-19 deaths, suffering a per capita mortality at least 50 percent higher than that of the United States. The Italian government, […]
Valerio Arcary: Revolutionary patience
Valerio Arcary is the author of several books including O Martelo de História (History’s Hammer) and a leader in the Resistência current of the Party for Socialism and Freedom. Here he discusses some of the […]
Julien Salingue: France joins the anti-racist revolt
As of June 11, France is reporting 155,561 confirmed coronavirus cases and 29, 346 Covid-19 deaths, 25 percent more deaths per capita than the United States and centered in Paris. Despite the […]
Aaron Grabin, Axel Farkas, Hamel Mighty: Black Lives Matter in Belgium
Belgium is reporting 56,569 confirmed coronavirus cases and 9,629 Covid-19 deaths, the worst per capita death rate in the world, 250 percent higher than the United States. As elsewhere, immigrant and poor […]
Martina Gomes: Black Lives Matter and the antifascist struggle in Brazil
As of June 10, Brazil is reporting 739,503 confirmed coronavirus infections and 38,406 Covid-19 deaths, but the real figures are likely significantly higher. Meanwhile, far-right President Jair Bolsonaro is trying to compensate […]
Vinod Mubayi: Criminalizing dissent and Covid-19 in India
As of June 9, India is reporting 266,598 confirmed coronavirus infections and 7,466 Covid-19 deaths although the actual toll could be far higher. The pandemic comes on the heals of a fading […]
Valerio Arcary: A victory in the streets of Brazil
As of June 8, Brazil is reporting 691,758 confirmed coronavirus cases and 36,455 Covid-19 deaths, widely-understood to significantly undercount the pandemic’s real toll. Inspired by the anti-racist uprising in the United States, […]
Workers Inquiry Network: 50,000 protest police violence and state racism in Paris
As of June 6, France is reporting 153,055 confirmed coronavirus cases and 29,111 Covid-19 deaths, fifth highest in the world. Before the Covid-19 crisis, France was rocked by strikes and mass protests […]
