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49 of the approximately 170 families forcibly removed from Empolweni informal settlement have re-built their homes, thanks to a court ordering their return.
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The long queues at Khayelitsha Mall were especially long and winding this week as the coronavirus temporarily closed two other retail centres in the biggest township in the Western Cape.
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Amcu won a major victory on Workers Day no less when the Labour Court ordered that the Chief Inspector of Mines must by 18 May gazette minimum guidelines for mining companies on managing the Covid-19 pandemic under the terms of the Mine Health and Safety Act.
ED STODDARD | BUSINESS MAVERICK
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Emergency Medical Service workers in Khayelitsha resorted to using plastic sheets, duct tape and bed covers to protect themselves while transporting patients at the weekend.
LALI, MAREGELE | GROUNDUP
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Drone footage showing the thousands of people standing in a queue that stretched for 4km in Centurion, Gauteng.
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The current debate on the medical role and cost of the Cuban Health Brigade in combating the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the fault lines of inequality in our society and also the limits of our consciousness on social solidarity.
ROBERT VAN NIEKERK | IOL
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Kerala’s approach to pandemic relief offers valuable lessons not only for India but also — perhaps especially — for advanced capitalist countries which have been hit the hardest by the outbreak.
SAMANTHA AGARWAL | TRUTHOUT
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Movements have been: pushing states to take action, fighting for the needs of marginalised groups, developing mutual aid, organising strikes and rent strikes – and fighting for a better world afterwards. This stuff matters!
INTERFACE JOURNAL
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The people’s mass fightback against the system that failed to protect them from the coronavirus and corporate predators begins May 1.
MARGARET KIMBERLEY | BLACK AGENDA REPORT
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As a white man watching the Michigan protests of Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders, all I could think was: Black people don’t get to do this Muslims don’t get to do this. Latinos don’t get to do this. People who don’t look like this don’t get to do this.
JOHN PAVLOVITZ | STUFF THAT NEEDS TO BE SAID
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In the pandemic, “illegal” workers are now deemed “essential” by the federal government. The best way to guarantee food security in the future is to legalize migrant workers in order to keep them in the U.S., and to offer a pathway to legalization as an incentive for new agricultural workers to come.
ALFREDO CORCHADO | NEW YORK TIMES
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Public health data for the cities of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza show a shift in recent weeks from the wealthy boroughs that seeded the outbreak to the gritty urban outskirts.
SLATTERY, EISENHAMMER, PEROBELLI | REUTERS
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Experts have been consistent in telling the public that one of the best means to stop the spread of the coronavirus is the practice of good hygiene. But how can you abide by these instructions when you do not have access to clean water?
LUIS CEJA | TRUTHOUT
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Earlier this week a new analysis was reported showing the world’s military spent a combined $1.9 trillion last year with the U.S. being the top spenders.
MARLEE KOKOTOVIC | NATION OF CHANGE
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Venezuelan Minister of the Interior, Nestor Reverol, made public this Sunday the dismantling of a terrorist assault by sea, originating in Colombia, and aiming to disembark on the coasts of the state of La Guaira.
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Despite the global pandemic, the old playbook of the CIA and the Trump administration with their dirty coups remains operational.
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The first is the Coronavirus Pandemic. The second is the Hunger Pandemic. The third is the Pandemic of Destruction of Livelihoods.
VANDANA SHIVA | COMMON DREAMS
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There is a bloodless quality to the way that we talk about the debt of the poorer nations. There is nothing poetic here. The numbers are alienating, their outcome shocking.
VIJAY PRASHAD | TRICONTINENTAL: INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
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NEIL VALLELLY | ROAR MAGAZINE
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Many of the new surveillance powers now sought by governments worldwide threaten freedom of speech. People will be chilled and deterred from speaking out if they fear scrutiny from cameras, drones, face recognition, thermal imaging, and location trackers. It is all too easy for governments to redeploy the infrastructure of surveillance from pandemic containment to political spying.
MATTHEW GUARIGLIA | EFF.ORG
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And a corresponding rise in nationalism and xenophobia may follow, just as it did in the 1930s.
WILLIAM GUMEDE | AL JAZEERA
The covid-19 pandemic could lead to the most severe recession since World War II. This contribution discusses the mistakes made and what can be learned from severe recessions in the past.
HANSJORG HERR | GLOBAL LABOUR UNIVERSITY
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The issue of when and how life, and most of all, the economy will be able to return to “normal” is becoming more serious. The plans and proposals on how this can be done, range from the outright genocidal to the seemingly scientific and humane.
GEORGI MARINOV | LEFT EAST
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The danger of conspiracy theories is their ability to breed apathy and resignation, offering an easy narrative that makes people susceptible to influence and limits social change. There is another way.
ARAGON ELOFF | NEW FRAME
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The Black Death depopulated Europe, killing as much as 60 percent of the population in the middle of the fourteenth century. By carrying off so many peasants, the Black Death made a major contribution to eroding the foundations of the dominant economic system of the time.
JOHN FEFFER | FOREIGN POLICY IN FOCUS
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For all their obvious differences in the record of the pandemic, there is one thing all countries have in common: the global Corona-pandemic hit immigrant populations, the poor, and Black and Brown people the hardest.
MAHENDRAN, MUNA, MENDIVIL | KARIBU
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The UK’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign won what it said was a historic legal victory for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement on Wednesday. BDS campaigners celebrated as the Supreme Court in London struck out an anti-divestment rule imposed by the government in 2016.
ASA WINSTANLEY | ELECTRONIC INTIFADA
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NEW TECHNOLOGIES, NEW FORMS OF LABOUR
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Caledon FM radio show on the pitfalls of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, one disappointing fact being that the jobs, which have traditionally allowed people entry into the middle class, are now disappearing.
RESEARCH ICT AFRICA
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This documentary takes a look at hacking in the place where technology and activists meet. Where the need to circumvent state surveillance and surveillance capitalism is grave. Where people see an unfair system in society and find a way to hack it. This is the true hacker habitat.
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Film Review:
This is a very effective but flawed film, combining a biting critique of “green” capital-driven renewable energy creation and big capital influence on the agendas of major U.S. environmental groups with a Malthusian message.
DAVID SCHWARTZMAN | POPULAR RESISTANCE
The film is controversial because it makes two big claims: first, that renewable energy is a sham; second, that big environmental organizations—by promoting solar and wind power—have sold their souls to billionaire investors.
RICHARD HEINBERG | POST CARBON INSTITUTE
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