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 […]
Aaron Grabin, Axel Farkas, Hamel Mighty: Black Lives Matter in Belgium
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 […]
Guilherme Boulos: How to stop the rise of fascism in Brazil
As of June 5, Brazil is reporting 614,941 confirmed coronavirus cases and 34,021 Covid-19 deaths, overtaking Italy for third place in total official deaths behind only the U.K. and the U.S. However, […]
Frieda Afary, Sara Abbas and Yasser Munif: Standing with Black Lives Matter across the world
Opposing Police Brutality, Militarism, and All Forms of State Violence This statement was written for World Without Prisons, the website of the Global Prison Abolitionist Coalition. Republished here by No Borders News. —– […]
Latin American and Caribbean Educators in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter
The following statement by a large coalition of Latin American and Caribbean educators was first published at Otras Voces en Educación, an independent site dedicated to developing critical theory for educational change. […]
Alex De Jong: Minneapolis sparks BLM protest in Amsterdam
As of June 2, The Netherlands is reporting 46,647 confirmed coronavirus infections and 5,967 Covid-19 deaths, the seventh highest per capita rate in the world. And despite the countries reputation for strong […]
Ana Caravalhaes: Lessons from “The Battle of the Paulistas”
As of June 1, more than 30,000 Brazilians have died from Covid-19 according to official figures, soon to be second highest number in the world behind the United States. The real number […]
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