COVID-19 & Omicron: Rob Wallace talks about Rebellion as Intervention

COVID-19 & Omicron: Rob Wallace talks about Rebellion as Intervention

I spoke with Rob Wallace about his excellent article on Patreon: “Don’t look up…COVID’s infectious period” available at https://bityl.co/AOvI. Omicron variant is everywhere. It isn’t the only variant in the mix. The crisis is growing to unprecedented proportions. The response of governments is underwhelming, obsessed as they are to prioritizing profiteering over people’s health. Workers […]

Fanon, the struggle for justice and mental health

Fanon, the struggle for justice and mental health

This is the second in the series of interviews with authors of chapters in the recently published Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth. On this occasion, the editor – Nigel C. Gibson – and the publisher of Daraja Press, Firoze Manji discuss with authors Samah Jabr, Elizabeth Berger, Rosemere Fereira […]

RACIAL CAPITALISM and COVID-19

RACIAL CAPITALISM and COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief the deep structural problems affecting ‘non-white’, racialized workers in the core and periphery. Yet, many social scientific analyses of the global political economy, at least in the pre-COVID era, have been race neutral or wilfully indifferent to the persistent racial pattern of global inequalities. In this interview, […]

Women activists speak about COVID-19 in Nairobi

Women activists speak about COVID-19 in Nairobi

I speak with Juliet Wanjira and Maryanne Kasina about COVID-19 in Nairobi. Juliet Wanjira is co-founder of the Mathare social justice centers, founder Matigari kids book club, member of the social justice movement working group and women in social justice centers.I am a grassroots human right defender passionate about advocating for dignified lives in informal settlements […]

What do we know about COVID-19 spread in Africa?

What do we know about COVID-19 spread in Africa?

I speak with Dr Rene Loewenson, a Zimbabwean epidemiologist and director of Training and Research Support Centre. After teaching for a decade at the University of Zimbabwe Medical school, she led a health department in the national trade union congress in the 1990s, worked with the African continental trade union body in health programmes and is […]

A People’s Vaccine or Apartheid Vaccine? Challenging WTO and Big Pharma

A People’s Vaccine or Apartheid Vaccine? Challenging WTO and Big Pharma

Access to health technologies (vaccines, medicines, diagnostics, PPE, ventilators etc) depends on the ability for distributed local production. Nationalism and protectionism on these technologies has implied a sustained struggle to get sufficient access to meet population needs, and global measures such as CTAP (for voluntary patent pooling) and COVAX (for vaccine and technology pooling) have […]

COVID-19 & Omicron: Rob Wallace talks about Rebellion as Intervention

COVID-19 & Omicron: Rob Wallace talks about Rebellion as Intervention

I spoke with Rob Wallace about his excellent article on Patreon: “Don’t look up…COVID’s infectious period” available at https://bityl.co/AOvI. Omicron variant is everywhere. It isn’t the only variant in the mix. The crisis is growing to unprecedented proportions. The response of governments is underwhelming, obsessed as they are to prioritizing profiteering over people’s health. Workers […]

Fanon, the struggle for justice and mental health

Fanon, the struggle for justice and mental health

This is the second in the series of interviews with authors of chapters in the recently published Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth. On this occasion, the editor – Nigel C. Gibson – and the publisher of Daraja Press, Firoze Manji discuss with authors Samah Jabr, Elizabeth Berger, Rosemere Fereira […]

RACIAL CAPITALISM and COVID-19

RACIAL CAPITALISM and COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief the deep structural problems affecting ‘non-white’, racialized workers in the core and periphery. Yet, many social scientific analyses of the global political economy, at least in the pre-COVID era, have been race neutral or wilfully indifferent to the persistent racial pattern of global inequalities. In this interview, […]

Women activists speak about COVID-19 in Nairobi

Women activists speak about COVID-19 in Nairobi

I speak with Juliet Wanjira and Maryanne Kasina about COVID-19 in Nairobi. Juliet Wanjira is co-founder of the Mathare social justice centers, founder Matigari kids book club, member of the social justice movement working group and women in social justice centers.I am a grassroots human right defender passionate about advocating for dignified lives in informal settlements […]

What do we know about COVID-19 spread in Africa?

What do we know about COVID-19 spread in Africa?

I speak with Dr Rene Loewenson, a Zimbabwean epidemiologist and director of Training and Research Support Centre. After teaching for a decade at the University of Zimbabwe Medical school, she led a health department in the national trade union congress in the 1990s, worked with the African continental trade union body in health programmes and is […]

A People’s Vaccine or Apartheid Vaccine? Challenging WTO and Big Pharma

A People’s Vaccine or Apartheid Vaccine? Challenging WTO and Big Pharma

Access to health technologies (vaccines, medicines, diagnostics, PPE, ventilators etc) depends on the ability for distributed local production. Nationalism and protectionism on these technologies has implied a sustained struggle to get sufficient access to meet population needs, and global measures such as CTAP (for voluntary patent pooling) and COVAX (for vaccine and technology pooling) have […]