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  • Artificial Intelligence, Society and Religion: Crossroads of Algorithm, Neoliberalism and Faith
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    Artificial Intelligence, Society and Religion: Crossroads of Algorithm, Neoliberalism and Faith

    The underlying objective of this book is to promote equality, global peace, harmony, transparency, inter-faith solidarity and broad-based awareness so that new technologies like AI can be developed, controlled and harnessed in the endeavor to tackle problems like hunger, poverty, disease, poor education, misinformation, pandemics, loss of biodiversity, environmental damage, authoritarianism, militarism, irresponsible consumerism, mental alienation and corporate domination that are facing the human race today.

    This objective is pursued by adopting an interdisciplinary approach to explore the intriguing confluence of artificial intelligence, social structure and faith at many levels. Numerous illustrative examples from religion majority and other nations grace these pages. They elucidate the structure, uses, benefits, and productivity gains of AI as well as the flaws, abuses, biases, hype, hallucinations, and harms associated with AI systems. Secular and religious ethical codes for AI are examined. It is seen that despite theological concerns, religion―Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, or Secularism―is not a barrier to wide practical adoption of AI. AI in education, medical diagnosis, science research and industry, the impact of AI on mental health and the environment, the notion of artificial super intelligence, military uses of AI, especially in the genocidal war on Gaza, AI in the Global South and the views of late Pope Francis on AI garner central attention. This book makes the case that corporate driven AI operating in the profit-oriented neoliberal, imperial setting will harm human cognitive abilities and mental health, undermine education, foster bias and mediocrity, facilitate the spread of misinformation, exacerbate national and international inequality, support authoritarian rule, worsen climate change and make warfare deadlier. AI can benefit humanity only under an egalitarian, genuinely democratic, environmentally aware social order.

    Based on a depth of research, Karim Hirji’s Artificial Intelligence, Society and Religion presents, in readable prose, a comprehensive portrait of the inter-relationship between an ancient human pre- occupation and a modern multi-faceted instrument that may presage a post-human future. Covering Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and Secularism, it explores how these traditions use AI tools and navigate the ethical challenges of AI. The perspectives of religious dignitaries like the late Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama on AI are compared. Providing a broad introduction to the attainments as well as limitations of AI systems, the book also discusses the potential for the emergence of super-intelligent AI systems. Unlike other books on AI, Hirji’s magnum opus contextualizes AI and religions within the global neoliberal system and discusses how AI systems enable violations of human rights and facilitate the commission of genocide. —Abdul Paliwala, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Warwick

    Using a broad range of sources with fascinating insight, Karim Hirji explores the ever-expanding world of Artificial Intelligence to inquire: Will AI benefit or endanger humanity? Using numerous country-level case studies, he explores multiple instances of the utility and harms of AI and argues that corporate-controlled AI will not only exacerbate inequality, but also cause more harm than good. Focusing on Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and secularism, he critically examines faith-based reactions to AI. Among other topics cogently covered are the ethics of AI, education and AI, military applications of AI and the possibility of a superintelligent AI. Addressing questions vital for our and the future generations from a progressive perspective, this book deserves attention from all concerned with where AI is driving our world. —Elizabeth Jones, MA, Teacher, Quaker, Former Co-editor of Christian Today, UK.

    Karim Hirji’s Artificial Intelligence, Society and Religion: Crossroads of Algorithm, Neoliberalism and Faith is a path-breaking, inspiring and challenging book on AI that will help strengthen the social movements of resistance throughout the world. It delegitimizes the ideological obfuscations of imperialism—from the crimes of Eugenics to the fantasy of a happy AI future. It takes us on a fascinating and challenging journey, warns us of the grave dangers posed by corporate AI, and prepares us for the next stage of the lifetime battle for anti-imperialist and socialist humanity. —Eric Mann, Author and Co-Director, Labor/Community Strategy Center, South Central Los Angeles.

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  • Mobilizing for Health Justice: Global Health Watch 7

    Since its first edition in 2005, Global Health Watch (GHW) – the flagship publication of the People’s Health Movement (PHM) – has been critically reporting on the state of the world’s health. Published every three or four years, it comments on developments in global health while focusing on continuities with past popular struggles.

    As with previous editions, GHW7 comes to life with contributions from over one hundred activists around the world, sharing experiences and analysis on issues affecting people’s health in the contexts they live in and efforts to progress towards greater health justice. This process was energized by the fifth People’s Health Assembly (PHA5), the global gathering of PHM, that took place in Argentina in April 2024 under the motto “Making ‘Health for All’ our struggle for ‘Buen Vivir”.

    Political contributions from Latin America are manifest in the first GHW7 section, dedicated to “The global political and economic architecture”, where an up-to-date analysis of current health crises is followed by contributions that frame them in an eco-feminist perspective, showing how alternatives can be rooted in ancestral wisdoms and the practice of ‘Buen Vivir’. The second section addresses old and new challenges for public and global health systems through the critical lenses of gender justice and decoloniality. The third section, “Beyond Healthcare,” addresses key social and environmental determinants of health, while the “Watching” section critically apprises the state of global governance for health with a focus on several key institutions. The final section, “Resistance, struggles and alternatives,” highlights areas of transformative change by health activists in a global context of increasing repression. The book ends with a chapter on PHA5, highlighting how collective action is the most powerful medicine against ill health and health inequality at the human and planetary levels.

    Global Health Watch 7 will include the following chapters

    Chapters A2 and A3 have been translated from Spanish by Lila Esther Silgado Villadiego.

    Summaries of the chapters that are currently available can be viewed by scrolling down and clicking on the “Description” tab. You can also download the chapters highlighted below.

    Introduction: Mobilizing for Health Justice
    A1. From a Political Economy of Disease to a Political Economy for Wellbeing
    A2. Life at the Center: Ecofeminisms and Ecoterritorial Feminisms in the Struggle for Life
    A3. Ancestral and Popular Knowledge for Buen Vivir
    B1. Privatization and Financialization of Health Systems: Challenges and Public Alternatives
    B2. Artificial Intelligence, Digital Technologies, and Health
    B3. Building Equitable Health Systems: A Transformative Proposal from an Intersectional Gender Perspective
    B4. Abolition Medicine as a Tool for Health Justice
    B5. Decolonizing Global Health
    C1. War, Conflict and Displacement
    C2. People on the Move
    C3. Putting the Right to Health to Work
    C4. Tax Justice: A Pathway to Better Health
    C5. Commercial/Corporate Determination of Health
    D1. WHO’s Compromised Role in Global Health Leadership
    D2. Unpacking Our Pandemic Failures for Future Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response
    D3. Financing Pandemic Recovery, Prevention, Preparedness and Response
    E1. National Struggles for the Right to Health
    E2. Taking Extractives to Court
    E3. Fear and Hope in ‘Speaking Truth to Power’: Struggles for Health in Times of Repression and Shrinking Spaces
    E4. 5th People’s Health Assembly: Advancing in the Struggle for Liberation and Against Capitalism

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  • WItness to War: An American Doctor in El Salvador

    WItness to War: An American Doctor in El Salvador

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    WItness to War: An American Doctor in El Salvador

    Witness to War: An American Doctor in El Salvador offers a personal account of Dr. Charles Clements’ year-long mission providing medical care behind rebel lines during El Salvador’s brutal civil war from 1981-1982. Clements, a former decorated U.S. Air Force pilot disillusioned by his Vietnam experiences, transformed into a Quaker doctor committed to non-violence and the principle of “bearing witness”—observing a situation firsthand and speaking truth about power.The book chronicles his harrowing struggle, at times one of only two fully trained physicians, for approximately 10,000 people in a guerrilla-controlled zone, confronting “scenes of almost unbelievable horror” and an “anguished view of the low value on life”. With virtually no supplies, Clements improvised, performing amputations with a Swiss Army knife and suturing with dental floss, all while battling dysentery, malaria, and hunger himself. His narrative is extraordinarily restrained yet both disturbing and gripping.Witness to War serves as a testimony from behind the lines, vividly portraying a conflict of constant aerial bombardments by U.S.-supplied aircraft. Clements’ commitment to medical neutrality, treating any patient regardless of their affiliation, is a central theme, challenging readers to confront uncomfortable truths about U.S. foreign policy and the immense human cost of conflict. This new edition, published decades later, underscores the enduring relevance of imperialism and militarism, urging new generations to reflect on their potential impact on the Global South.

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  • Memoirs of a Woman Survivor of the First Year of the Gaza Holocaust

    Memoirs of a Woman Survivor of the First Year of the Gaza Holocaust

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    Memoirs of a Woman Survivor of the First Year of the Gaza Holocaust

    These memoirs bear witness to the harrowing reality of survival during the devastating war on Gaza. Through vivid personal narratives, they capture the daily struggle for existence—the scarcity of food and water, the constant threat of bombardment, and the profound psychological trauma. Yet, they delve far deeper than mere physical survival, exploring the profound wounds of displacement: the heartbreak of leaving behind a home, a street, a neighborhood, and the irreplaceable fragments of a life forever shattered.

    The pages reveal families huddled in schools-turned-shelters, sharing morsels of bread and whispering prayers for a safe dawn. This collection is both a testament and an act of resistance. It refuses to let the world reduce human beings to mere statistics, insisting instead on honoring every story, every face, and every name. It bears witness not only to the destruction but also to the unbroken spirit of a people determined to live, dream, and rise again.

    While rooted in immense suffering, these narratives are also profound meditations on dignity, love, and an unshakable will to persevere. At once personal and collective, they amplify the voices of a generation too often silenced by conflict, posing urgent questions about justice, memory, and the future. They ensure these essential stories are never buried beneath rubble or lost to cold statistics.

    In the midst of fire and fear, these words declare: “We are still here. We remember.” This act of testimony—to feel, to survive, and to hold onto love when the world offers none—becomes the most honest act of living. Through these pages, the reader is invited not only into a world of unimaginable hardship but also into the profound depths of human endurance, the richness of Arab culture, and the unwavering faith that guides a people forward.

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  • We Are Still Here: An anthology of resilience, grief, and unshattered hope from Gaza’s university students
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    We Are Still Here: An anthology of resilience, grief, and unshattered hope from Gaza’s university students

    Since the start of the unfolding genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, carried out through settler-colonial Israeli violence, higher education institutions have been systematically destroyed. Campuses lie in ruins, academics and students have been killed or forcibly displaced, and what was once a thriving, intellectually vibrant student population now lives under daily threat of bombardment, forced starvation, and death. For nearly two years, students have been cut off not only from their universities, but from their dreams, their futures, and even their most basic sense of safety.

    Yet, despite this unimaginable trauma, many are still writing.

    We Are Still Here is an anthology of these voices—raw, unfiltered, and courageous. It features short and long stories, poems, essays, and testimonies written by students from Gaza’s universities. These are not retrospective reflections or distant analyses; they are real-time words, emerging from the depths of genocide, displacement, and grief. These writings may be their last hopes to reach the world, a final act of resistance through expression.

    Surviving at the darkest extremes of suffering, of destruction and displacement, famine and the constant threat of maiming or death, these young writers speak to us with piercing lucidity. Their resilience is their only form of optimism. Paradoxically, reading them lifts the heart.
    Ian McEwan, author of Atonement and Enduring Love

    A moving, painful and yet hopeful collection of the younger generation of the people of Gaza. Sumud, resilience, was never so powerful and clear, as it appears in this must read and urgent collection. —Ilan Pappé, professor, University of Exeter’s College of Social Sciences and International Studies, author, A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict

    In the heart of suffering, words are born — and from beneath the rubble, creativity rises. This book is more than a collection of written pages; it is the echo of resilient souls and the cries of pens that spoke when voices were silenced. — Professor Dr. Omar Kh. Melad, President of Al-Azhar University– Gaza

    We Are Still Here is not a book about war — it is a book about being alive after the world has decided you are already gone, written in rooms that may no longer stand. These pages are dispatches from the thin edge of the present: letters from hunger, fragments of interrupted lives, flashes of hope so unyielding it burns. Here, young people shape the record of their time on earth, knowing that their time may be short. You will not leave this book with the comfort of closure. It will stay with you long after the final page has turned. — Leila Sansour, filmmaker and founder of Open Bethlehem

    These Gaza poignant reflections in prose and poetry from the midst of genocide are both heart-rending and full of life and promise. Israel may have physically killed many of their young authors, but will never kill their words, which live on in this powerful collection of their writings. — Ghada Karmi.

    Death is not an ideation for these young writers, but an everyday reality. This collection is a testimony to the power of words. It reveals how love, creativity and hope can galvanise us against fear and inaction. — Selma Dabbagh, author of the novel Out of It and editor of the anthology We Wrote in Symbols; Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers.

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  • The Shadow: Poems for the Children of Gaza
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    The Shadow: Poems for the Children of Gaza

    Discover The Shadow: Poems for the Children of Gaza, a poignant collection by Palestinian poet Ahmed Miqdad and Maltese-Canadian poet John P. Portelli. Written amidst the horrors of Gaza’s genocide and the personal battle with cancer, these 42 poems bear witness to the intersection of political violence and personal mortality. Through raw emotion and lyrical defiance, the poets forge solidarity across borders, offering a glimmer of hope in the face of erasure.

    Featuring evocative art by Malak Mattar and a foreword by Professor Jamil Khader, this collection is a call to remember, resist, and reclaim humanity. A portion of proceeds will support Palestinian relief efforts.

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  • Gaza Held in Time: A Tapestry of Two Lives

    Gaza Held in Time: A Tapestry of Two Lives

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    Gaza Held in Time: A Tapestry of Two Lives

    Gaza Held in Time

    “A jewel of pain and memory.” —Patrizia Cecconi

    Two Voices. One Shattered Homeland. A Story the World Can’t Ignore.

    About the Book

    Gaza Held in Time: A Tapestry of Two Lives is a groundbreaking memoir written by Tareq AlSourani and Yara Nasser, two Palestinian teenagers whose lives were torn apart by the 2023–2025 genocide. One fled to Egypt, carrying the guilt of escape. The other stayed, documenting Gaza’s descent into famine, mass graves, and the quiet rebellion of dreams.

    Their alternating narratives—raw, poetic, and unflinchingly honest—weave together moments of piercing beauty (the scent of jasmine in Gaza’s streets, the taste of warm knafeh from Abu Al-Soud) with the horror of drone strikes, forced displacement, and the systematic erasure of their home.

    This is not just a book about war. It’s about what it means to love a place the world is trying to destroy.

    Why This Book Matters

    • A Firsthand Account of Genocide: Written in real time from inside and outside Gaza, it shatters statistics with intimate, devastating testimony.
    • A Testament to Resilience: From cooking over open fires to smuggling words past censorship, their creativity defies annihilation.
    • A Call to Remember“We wrote so Gaza would not fade into headlines.” This book is a lifeline to stories the world must not forget.

    Praise for Gaza Held in Time

    “Devastating… These could be our children. A brave and necessary book.”
    Yahia Lababidi, Palestinian poet

    “Their words should haunt us forever.”
    Lynne Segal, Birkbeck, University of London

    “A door left open for memory, for return, for rebuilding.”
    Aref Husseini, author of Half-Ashkenazi

    Excerpt: The Day Everything Changed

    “October 7, 2023. I woke to the sky screaming. By noon, the internet was gone. We played cards in silence, waiting for the ceiling to collapse. When it didn’t, we realized: this was the new normal. Gaza was being unmade in front of us.” —Yara Nasser

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    “The story is not over because the sea still calls our names.”
    Order. Read. Remember.

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  • Finding A Voice

    First published in 1978, and winning the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for that year, Finding a Voice established a new discourse on South Asian women’s lives and struggles in Britain. Through discussions, interviews and intimate one-to-one conversations with South Asian women, in Urdu, Hindi, Bengali and English, it explored family relationships, the violence of immigration policies, deeply colonial mental health services, militancy at work and also friendship and love. The seventies was a time of some iconic anti-racist and working-class struggles. They are presented here from the point of view of the women who participated in and led them.

    This new edition includes a preface by Meena Kandasamy, some historic photographs, and a remarkable new chapter titled ‘In conversation with Finding a Voice: 40 years on’ in which younger South Asian women write about their own lives and struggles weaving them around those portrayed in the book.

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  • A Manifesto on Palestine: Rethinking Liberation from Below
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    A Manifesto on Palestine: Rethinking Liberation from Below

    We are excited to share a summary of a truly transformative new work, A Manifesto on Palestine: Rethinking Liberation from Below, by Ibraheem Rasras. This manifesto offers a profound and challenging re-evaluation of the Palestinian struggle, urging us to look beyond conventional political and diplomatic frameworks to envision a radically different path to freedom and self-determination.

    The Core Diagnosis: Beyond Material Occupation
    Rasras argues that the Palestinian crisis is not merely a material one of occupation, dispossession, and statelessness, but also a deep “epistemological crisis”. The very structures intended for liberation, the manifesto asserts, have been “subverted, diverted, or rendered ineffective by the very forces they seek to fight”. This is evident in the recurrence of atrocities, reminiscent of past massacres, seen in Gaza from 2023 onwards. A central critique is leveled against the adoption of hierarchical, statist, and technocratic forms of liberation, which have come to tragically resemble the configuration of the oppressor, shedding their ethical and revolutionary essence. The Oslo Accords are cited as a prime example, transforming the language of liberation into one of “formalized managerial governance” and “conditional sovereignty”. This has contributed to a profound “void in the political contextualization and ethical framework of the political ruling”.

    The Problem of “Stylistic” Resistance and Internalized Colonialism
    The manifesto identifies how Palestinian resistance has, over decades, shifted from revolutionary, bottom-up rhetoric to institutionalized and compromised modes, particularly after the Oslo Accords. It introduces the concept of “stylistic” liberation, where leaders impose their imagined schemes rather than adapting to the realities on the ground, leading to an “alienus” leadership that lacks genuine popular allegiance. This “stylistic” approach also manifests when liberation is pursued through “tools of trivialization” that are external to the collective’s specific needs, such as placing prolonged peace negotiations *before* achieving liberation. This externalization, mirroring the colonizing process itself, leads to a form of alienation, obstructing collective self-control and, in many cases, resulting in the unconscious participation of the colonized in their own subjugation. Distrust stemming from unfulfilled promises by factions like Hamas and Fatah has further deepened fragmentation and a sense of “strangeness” among Palestinians.

    A New Strategy: The Ethics of Resistance and Anarchic Programs
    To counter this multifaceted crisis, the manifesto proposes a radical alternative: a “bottom-up resistance” grounded in a unified mode of ethics, a collective understanding of the cause, and consistent practices. This “ethics of resistance” is not a rigid dogma but an “emancipatory code” and a regulatory framework for all aspects of Palestinian daily life, directly confronting neoliberal values like profit-maximization. It is intertwined with the urgent need for a “cultural revolution” that aims to restructure social circumstances and foster a “revolutionary consciousness”. This cultural shift, implemented in successive waves, includes intensive education on human rights and rooting new “networking-elements” within Palestinian social and cultural life. The goal is to establish a “solid reference-point” that can unify Palestinians, whose power has been fragmented by internal divisions and external pressures.

    The manifesto champions “anarchic programs” as a strategic framework to dismantle subjugation. This involves collectively disengaging from oppressive laws and creating a vacuum for temporary self-management, thereby strengthening local grassroots power. It envisions an “anarchic rule” based on “organic units” and “free cooperation,” emphasizing self-management, direct worker control, and integrated agriculture and industry. This approach aims to organize Palestinians without the fear of division or surveillance that has plagued traditional political structures.

    The Power of the Everyday
    Crucially, the manifesto points to the already existing “affirmative, anarchic, and ethical politics” in fragments throughout Palestinian society. These are not found in the monopolies of NGOs or political parties, but in the “spontaneous and often-unrecognized social inventions of ordinary people”. Examples include mutual aid networks in Gaza during siege, informal community schooling, grassroots organizing, and the refusal to cooperate with surveillance. These acts of “everyday resistance”—like a student crossing a checkpoint or a mother going to work despite immense barriers—are seen as foundational for a new paradigm of collective ethics and political orientation.

    Toward a Horizon of Liberation
    A Manifesto on Palestine is a bold call for “breakage,” arguing that “no gradual reform will bring freedom”. It is an “epistemological” task to unveil and amplify these lifeways and forms of knowledge, leading to an ethical reconstruction for a collective life that rejects domination in all forms. The manifesto asserts that the future of Palestine will not come from foreign beneficence or failed peace talks, but will be “constructed by the long disenfranchised of the political arithmetic: the dispossessed, the alienated, the uncredentialed, the everyday”. It invites all to engage in “a problem to be enjoyed more than an answer to be spewed back,” asserting that “freedom must be written by individuals who are living alternatively”.

    We encourage you to delve deeper into this profound manifesto and join the critical conversation about rethinking liberation from below.

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  • Flames of the Cherry Tree

    In the majestic valley of pre-Partition Kashmir, Aafreen Khan dreams of becoming a doctor like her beloved grandfather. Fierce, curious, and headstrong, she defies the boundaries of convention as a Muslim and a woman in a country rigged against her, determined to carve her own path. But as the partition of India looms closer and Kashmir finds itself in the crossfire, Aafreen is swept into the whirlwind of a story much larger than her own. When love, loss, and political upheaval reshape her entire world, Aafreen is forced to confront everything she thought she knew.

    Spanning decades and generations, Flames of the Cherry Tree is a sweeping, intimate portrait of a young woman’s coming-of-age against the backdrop of colonialism, rebellion, and the violent birth of today’s occupied Kashmir. At once tender and unflinching, it traces the story of one Kashmiri family through oppression and resistance, illuminating the forgotten histories that have shaped Kashmir and the hope that survives in its people.

    This book is for readers of historical fiction that crave a deeper understanding of places too-often lost under the narrative of their tyrants. Flames of the Cherry Tree is a vivid, devastating, and ultimately life-affirming tale of the ties that bind us across time.

  • Ancestral Daughter

    Ancestral Daughter is a poignant collection of free-verse poetry by Palestinian writer Zeina Jhaish, exploring themes of diaspora, identity, resistance, and love. Through vivid imagery and raw emotion, Jhaish navigates her dual existence as a Palestinian woman from Gaza living in the diaspora, weaving personal and collective histories into her verses. The book is divided into two parts: “Ancestral,” which delves into exile, land, and the trauma of occupation, and “Daughter,” which reflects on womanhood, heartbreak, and rebirth. Poems like “Haifa on 85th Avenue” and “Godforsaken Homes” juxtapose longing for homeland with the alienation of displacement, while “Being a Palestinian Woman: A Guide” celebrates resilience. Jhaish honors her heritage, mourns ongoing violence, and clings to hope, dedicating the work to Gaza and Palestinian martyrs. Blending English and Arabic, her poetry is a testament to ancestral love and the unyielding spirit of her people.

  • Una movilización por la justicia en salud: Observatorio global de salud 7

    Desde su primera edición en 2005, el Observatorio Global de la Salud (GHW) -la publicación insignia del Movimiento por la Salud de los Pueblos (MSP)- ha venido informando críticamente sobre el estado de la salud en el mundo. Publicada cada tres o cuatro años, comenta la evolución de la salud mundial al tiempo que se centra en la continuidad con las luchas populares del pasado.

    Al igual que en ediciones anteriores, el GHW7 cobra vida con las contribuciones de más de cien activistas de todo el mundo, que comparten experiencias y análisis sobre cuestiones que afectan a la salud de las personas en los contextos en los que viven y los esfuerzos por avanzar hacia una mayor justicia en salud. Este proceso fue dinamizado por la quinta Asamblea Mundial por la Salud de los Pueblos (ASP5), el encuentro mundial del MSP, que tuvo lugar en Argentina en abril de 2024 bajo el lema “Haciendo de la ‘Salud para Todos’ nuestra lucha por el ‘Buen Vivir’”.

    Las contribuciones políticas de América Latina se manifiestan en la primera sección del GHW7, dedicada a “La arquitectura política y económica global”, donde a un análisis actualizado de las crisis de la salud actuales le siguen contribuciones que las enmarcan en una perspectiva ecofeminista, mostrando cómo las alternativas pueden arraigarse en las sabidurías ancestrales y en la práctica del ‘Buen Vivir’. La segunda sección aborda viejos y nuevos retos para los sistemas de salud públicos y globales a través de las lentes críticas de la justicia de género y la decolonialidad. La tercera sección, “Más allá de la atención en salud”, aborda los principales determinantes sociales y ambientales de la salud, mientras que la sección “Vigilancia” analiza críticamente el estado de la gobernanza mundial de la salud centrándose en varias instituciones clave. La última sección, “Resistencia, luchas y alternativas”, destaca las áreas de cambio transformador de los y las activistas de la salud en un contexto mundial de creciente represión. El libro termina con un capítulo sobre la ASP5, en el que se destaca cómo la acción colectiva es la medicina más poderosa contra la mala salud y la desigualdad de la salud a nivel humano y planetario.

    Global Health Watch 7 incluye los siguientes capítulos:

    Los resúmenes de los capítulos actualmente disponibles, junto con el PDF descargable correspondiente, pueden consultarse desplazándose hacia abajo y haciendo clic en la pestaña “Descripción”.

    Todos los capítulos, excepto A2 y A3, han sido traducidos del inglés por Lila Esther Silgado Villadiego

    Introducción: Una Movilización por la Justicia en Salud
    A1. De la Economía Política de la Enfermedad a la Economía Política del Bienestar
    A2. La Vida en el Centro: Ecofeminsmos y Feminismos Ecoterritoriales en la Disputa por la Vida

    A3. Saberes Ancestrales y Populares para el Buen Vivir
    B1. Privatización y Financierización de los Sistemas de Salud: Retos y Alternativas Públicas

    B2. Inteligencia Artificial, Tecnologías Digitales y Salud
    B3. Construyendo Sistemas de Salud Equitativos: Una Propuesta Transformadora Desde una Perspectiva Interseccional de Género
    B4. La Medicina de la Abolición como Herramienta para la Justicia en Salud
    B5. Descolonización de la Salud Mundial
    C1. Guerra, Conflicto y Desplazamiento
    C2. Personas en Movimiento
    C3. Poniendo el Derecho a la Salud ¡A Trabajar!
    C4. Justicia fiscal: El camino Hacia una Mejor Salud
    C5. Determinación comercial/empresarial de la salud
    D1. El papel de la Organización Mundial de la Salud en el liderazgo de la salud mundial, bajo amenaza
    D2. Desembalaje de Nuestros Fracasos Pandémicos para la Prevención y Preparación ante futuras pandemias
    D3. Financiación de la Recuperación, Prevención, Preparación y Respuesta ante una Pandemia
    E1. Luchas Nacionales por el Derecho a la Salud
    E2. Llevando a las Empresas Extractivas a los Tribunales
    E3. Miedo y esperanza en “Decir la verdad al poder”: Luchas por la salud en tiempos de represión y reducción de espacios
    E4. 5ª Asamblea Mundial por la Salud de los Pueblos: Avanzando en la lucha por la liberación y contra el capitalismo

  • Unsilenced: Poems for Palestine
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    Unsilenced: Poems for Palestine

    Unsilenced: Poems for Palestine is a collection of poems that convey profound emotions and serious reflections on the ongoing situation in Gaza and Palestine since the Nakba. The anthology seeks to express the moral outrage felt by poets from around the world, highlighting the perceived double standards of the West regarding international law and the suffering of the Palestinian people. The poems examine the daily realities of life and philosophical perspectives on the human condition, using nature as a motif to articulate emotions and explore themes of homeland, childhood, exile, genocide, and war. All proceeds from the sale of the collection will be donated to Gaza, demonstrating the poets’ commitment to fostering positive change through their art. Contributors include diverse voices from various countries, each recognizing the urgency and necessity of addressing the inhumane actions perpetrated against Palestine.

    Income from the sale of this title will be donated for Palestine.

    Praise for Unsilenced

    Haunting verses by poets fluent in the language of death and genocide. Each poem rings out as a piece of memory, a bridge and a dream. This elegy will stand as a testimonial, a witness, by brave voices exhausted by the deafening silence of a traumatized world. —Nnimmo Bassey, author of I See the Invisible (poems) and Laureate of the Right to Livelihood Award 2010

    … the priceless value of an anthology of lyrics from yet another encircled, blitzed, strafed, and bombarded commune, ghetto, or kibbutz, is that it bears indelible witness to the unbreakable human spirit yearning for freedom, for peace, for bread and wine and water set amid an olive grove or a lemon orchard. That is what you will unfold in editor John P. Portelli’s Unsilenced: Poetry for Palestine. Poets—Jew and Arab, Muslim and Christian, Atheist and Surrealist—voice suffering, resilience, despair, and hope, speaking out of their fragile humanity to demand that vile atrocities cease. — George Elliott Clarke, author of Canticles I-III, 6 vols, MMXVI-MMXXIII (2016-2023)

    Unsilenced shows how poetry is written to trigger and provoke, to bear witness, to look at the sky and shout, over and over, as loudly as necessary against injustice. Immanuel Mifsud, Associate Professor, University of Malta and winner of the European Union Prize for Literature (2011).

    Contributing Authors

    Poems by: Raed Anis Al-Jishi (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), Ridvan Ardic (Türkiye), Lil Blume (Canada), Taghrid Bou Merhi (Lebanon and Brazil), Hasan Bozdaş (Türkiye), Norbert Bugeja (Malta), Tatev Chakhian (Armenia), Franca Colozzo (Italy), Lana Derkač (Croatia), Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews (Canada), Leanne Ellul (Malta), Marthese Fenech (Malta), Abigail George (South Africa), Joe Giampaolo (Canada), Elham Hamedi (Iran), Xanthi Handrou-Hill (Greece), Jennifer Hosein (Canada), Fady Joudah (USA), Sheema Kalbasi (Iran, Denmark, USA), Rula Kahil (Lebanon and Canada), Nibal Khalil (Palestine), Zeyneb Karaca (Türkiye), Yahia Lababidi (USA), Milica Jeftimijević Lilić (Serbia), Sonia Maddouri (Tunisia), Lisa Suhair Majaj (Palestine, U.S.A., and Cyprus), Marwan Makhoul (Palestine), Leila Marshy (Canada), Taghrid Bou Merhi (Lebanon and Brazil), Ahmed Miqdad (Palestine), Maria Miraglia (Italy), Walid Nabhan (Malta, Jordan, Palestine), Mirela Necula (Romania), Mansour Noorbakhsh (Canada), Joseph C. Ogbonna (Nigeria), Muhammed Huseyin Ozer (Türkiye), John P. Portelli (Malta and Canada), Niloy Rafiq (Bangladesh), Shirani Rajapakse (Sri Lanka), Giovanna Riccio (Canada), Omar Sabbagh (Lebanon), Paul Salvatori (Canada), Eray Saricam (Türkiye), Zulal Sema (Türkiye), Cao Shui (China), Kadir Tepe (Türkiye), Graciela Noemi Villaverde (Argentina), Mirela Leka Xhava (France, Albania), Klara Vassallo (Malta), Anna Yin (Canada), Ghassan Zaqtan (Palestine)
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  • Les héros de la révolution africaine: Livre de coloriage: Tome 2

    United African Diaspora est une organisation panafricaine basée à Calgary, au Canada. Nous nous engageons à construire une communauté africaine forte et autonome capable de répondre aux besoins de son peuple et de contribuer à la lutte mondiale pour réaliser le panafricanisme : la libération et l’unification de l’Afrique.

    Nous avons réalisé ce livre de coloriage afin d’exposer les enfants africains à leur histoire authentique. Malcolm X nous a dit il y a plusieurs décennies que nous devrons être responsable de l’éducation de nos enfants. Il avait compris que notre peuple est intentionnellement dépossédé de sa véritable histoire. Nous ne pouvons plus compter sur les institutions pour éduquer nos enfants et nous devrons prendre sur nous la responsabilité de leur transmettre la vérité afin qu’ils puissent apporter une contribution positive à la lutte de notre peuple pour la justice et la liberté. Ce livre met en lumière quelques-unes des figures clés de la lutte pour le panafricanisme, c’est-à-dire la libération et l’unification totales de l’Afrique. Toutes les femmes et tous les hommes courageux présents dans ce livre étaient des panafricanistes. Ils ont compris que les personnes descendantes africaines du monde entier étaient confrontées aux mêmes problèmes et qu’elles devaient donc s’unir pour les surmonter. Nous espérons que ce livre inspirera la prochaine génération d’enfants africains à devenir des panafricanistes et à se joindre à la lutte pour la libération et l’unification de l’Afrique.

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  • Les héros de la révolution africaine: Livre de coloriage: Tome 1

    United African Diaspora est une organisation panafricaine basée à Calgary, au Canada. Nous nous engageons à construire une communauté africaine forte et autonome capable de répondre aux besoins de son peuple et de contribuer à la lutte mondiale pour réaliser le panafricanisme : la libération et l’unification de l’Afrique.

    Nous avons réalisé ce livre de coloriage afin d’exposer les enfants africains à leur histoire authentique. Malcolm X nous a dit il y a plusieurs décennies que nous devrons être responsable de l’éducation de nos enfants. Il avait compris que notre peuple est intentionnellement dépossédé de sa véritable histoire. Nous ne pouvons plus compter sur les institutions pour éduquer nos enfants et nous devrons prendre sur nous la responsabilité de leur transmettre la vérité afin qu’ils puissent apporter une contribution positive à la lutte de notre peuple pour la justice et la liberté. Ce livre met en lumière quelques-unes des figures clés de la lutte pour le panafricanisme, c’est-à-dire la libération et l’unification totales de l’Afrique. Toutes les femmes et tous les hommes courageux présents dans ce livre étaient des panafricanistes. Ils ont compris que les personnes descendantes africaines du monde entier étaient confrontées aux mêmes problèmes et qu’elles devaient donc s’unir pour les surmonter. Nous espérons que ce livre inspirera la prochaine génération d’enfants africains à devenir des panafricanistes et à se joindre à la lutte pour la libération et l’unification de l’Afrique.

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  • Heroes of the African Revolution: Colouring Book Volume 2

    We made this coloring book in order to expose African children to their authentic history. Malcolm X told us decades ago that we had to take responsibility for our children’s education because he understood that our people had been intentionally robbed of their true history. We can no longer rely on institutions to educate our children and must take it upon ourselves to equip our children with the truth so that they can bring a positive contribution to our people’s struggle for justice and freedom.

    In Volume 2 of the coloring book, new African revolutionaries are introduced. Some well-known figures, such as Patrice Lumumba and Amilcar Cabral, but we’ve also brought to light lesser-known freedom fighters, such as Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim of Sudan and Elma Francois of Trinidad and Tobago.
    We have also introduced some games, such as a word search and a maze, both with a Pan-Afican theme. Finally, we included a glossary (with Swahili translations ) highlighting the kind of vocabulary we wish to instill in our youth
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  • Welfare for a Humane Future: Moving Beyond the Welfare State of Racial Capitalism
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    Welfare for a Humane Future: Moving Beyond the Welfare State of Racial Capitalism

    Welfare for a Humane Future by David Matthews and Howard Waitzkin critiques the capitalist welfare state, emphasizing its role in sustaining racial capitalism’s exploitative structures. The authors argue that welfare under capitalism reinforces racial and class divisions, as seen in historical policies like the New Deal, which excluded Black workers. They envision a post-capitalist welfare system rooted in communal values—love, solidarity, and participatory democracy—drawing inspiration from global examples like Rojava’s democratic confederalism, Venezuela’s communes, and Cooperation Jackson’s solidarity economy. Key components include cooperative housing, community-controlled healthcare, and universal basic income, all managed through local assemblies. The book highlights mutual aid and grassroots organizing as pathways to transformative change, urging readers to build alternative institutions within capitalist societies. By prioritizing collective well-being over profit, the authors advocate for a welfare system that empowers communities and fosters equity.

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  • A Zone of Nonbeing: A Black Pole's Reflections on Racism in Poland

    A Zone of Nonbeing: A Black Pole’s Reflections on Racism in Poland

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    A Zone of Nonbeing: A Black Pole’s Reflections on Racism in Poland

    While racism in Western Europe has been extensively documented, the experiences of racism in Eastern Europe remain underexplored, particularly from the perspective of Black individuals born and raised in the region. This book, written by a Polish author of African descent, sheds light on the racial struggles in Poland, situating them within a broader global context.

    The first part of the book delves into the historical dynamics of racial relationships between Black individuals and white Poles. It highlights the lives of Black Polish citizens and residents from the 18th century to the fall of communism in 1989, including figures like Katarzyna Rohoczewska and August Agbola O’Browne. It also celebrates the contributions of two prominent Polish anti-racists: General Tadeusz Kościuszko and the poet Cyprian Kamil Norwid. This section further examines Poland’s colonial ambitions, from Maurycy Beniowski’s attempt to colonize Madagascar in the late 18th century to colonial expeditions in the 1930s. Additionally, it analyzes the paradoxical nature of anti-racism in the People’s Republic of Poland, exploring the government’s official stance alongside the attitudes of its white citizens.

    The second part offers a deeply personal account of the author’s experiences as both a student and a teacher, revealing the pervasive racism within Poland’s education system. It critiques the anti-migrant rhetoric propagated by Polish and European Union politicians, exposing their hypocrisy during the EU refugee crisis. A central chapter focuses on the tragic murder of Maxwell Itoya in May 2010, framing it within the global context of police brutality against Black individuals.

    The final part of the book examines the racist undertones in Polish culture, particularly in literature and mass media, with a critical analysis of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s In Desert and Wilderness. It also pays tribute to James Baldwin, the author’s literary hero, exploring how Baldwin’s essays have profoundly influenced the author’s own writing and worldview. The book concludes with a reflection on the absence of a cohesive movement among Black Poles and poses the urgent question: What is to be done?

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  • Rooted in struggle: stories from translocal social movement learning in Ghana, South Africa, Guatemala and Canada

    This book is the culmination of several years of partnership between social movements, social justice organizations and academics in Ghana, South Africa, Guatemala and Canada. Called the Translocal Learning Network, this partnership has generated a space for those facing the multiple and overlapping crises of our time to come together and share knowledge and mutually solidarize with each other’s struggles. This knowledge exchange and mutual solidarity has been non-hierarchical and collaborative in nature, and has taken the form of sharing and commenting on complex stories through a participatory research methodology known as narrative restorying. As such, this book will focus on the stories each partner has shared, along with engagement with these stories by other members of the network. This interplay of knowledge sharing will provide a window into the social movement learning of network members.
    The central argument of the book was best captured by Thapelo Mohapi in our recent presentation at the Development Studies Association conference at SOAS in London, UK: “It is always assumed that when you are poor, when you are living in a shack, when you live in a rural area, when you are marginalized, that you cannot think for yourself, that you cannot be involved in development, because you are poor”; instead of this “People must make decisions and must be consulted, and they must have a voice to speak about their own development. It must be initiated and completed with the people.” This book is literally a space where those on the front line of struggles against land dispossession, livelihood dispossession, violent resource exploitation, forced marginal living, climate fueled emergencies, and the denigration of cultural and traditional indigenous knowledge share their experiences, learning, successes, and defeats, with those facing similar and related struggles. In addition to these front-line voices, scholars working alongside these struggles, share some of their learnings and ideas that have emerged from the partnership, and these reflections are also brought into dialogue with front-line activists. In other words, this book provides a window into a rich, ongoing dialogue of mutual learning and support that will speak to audiences in the activist and critical academic communities.
    To that point, this translocal network uses the notion of translocality to push back on the capitalist, colonial, and neo-liberal agenda of a)maintaining divisions between people struggling against oppression in different parts of the world (through border controls, language divisions, and colonial racialized othering); and, b)maintaining a knowledge hierarchy that states, international institutions, intellectual institutions, and corporations are those best able to contend with the many crises we face, and even within activists, it is those movements and organizations with broad, multinational reach that can best speak for the affected. Translocality rather argues that it is those with local knowledge of crises and context that are best positioned to speak to what needs to change, and that local struggles meeting each other as equals, translocally, is the best way to learn from one another without imposing new forms of knowledge hierarchies.

  • Ghostlines – Re-Drawing the LAPSSET Corridor in Kenya. A Geo-Graphic Novel

    Ghostlines is a graphic novel that describes the journey of the author and three Kenyan artists along the LAPSSET development corridor, a braid of roads, pipelines, and resort cities that promises to bring development to Kenya’s marginalized north. It mixes conceptual and empirical insights into the human geography of infrastructure with the narrative flexibility and depth afforded by the medium graphic novel – a geo-graphic novel.

    They meet Peter, a retired pilot who had previously worked for a conservancy and can tell stories about the LAPSSET from high above and from the ground. He understands how everyone involved is seeking to benefit from the corridor in their own way, even if that means building uninhabited “ghost huts” that manifest the presence of pastoral communities and thus qualify them for compensation. Jane is an activist for a women’s and Indigenous rights organization. She’s been fighting invisible monsters her entire life: stalking hyenas (metaphorical and real), corrupt politicians, and the patriarchy itself. The spectre of the LAPSSET is only the last one of these hidden monsters. They meet Joseph, a herder, who hopes that the LAPSSET might connect him to far places but worries that it will instead cut him off of the grazing grounds that are essential for the survival of his family. What is the LAPSSET – a road or a fence? In Oldonyoro they meet Rashid, a poet, who writes about the long history of the corridor. In his mind, it reaches far back to colonial times. “My grandfather suffered greatly,” he writes, “Is it my turn to face the worst? I wonder, a tricky treasure”. In the last village on their journey, they meet a group of women who have come together to support each other. Their position on the LAPSSET is more optimistic. The real connections of solidarity they forged contrast with the imaginary ghostlines of the LAPSSET. The narrative structure of the geo-graphic novel draws connections between the narrators, that is, the team of researchers and artists and the interviewees. They seek to unravel the idea of the omniscient or unbiased narrator and to reveal how storytellers bring their own ghosts into stories. By connecting all of these narratives along their journey, they challenge the single, universalist story that planners tell about large-scale infrastructure projects. Instead, they invite the reader to embrace the often-contradictory multiplicity of infrastructural relations, to see the ostensibly solid lines on maps for what they are: a messy, ever-changing braiding of multitudes.