If Martin Luther King were alive today his radicalism wouldn’t be celebrated
Blog / 19th January 2022If MLK lived today, he would not be celebrated for staunchly opposing wealth inequality and poverty, or for his Poor People’s Campaign that demanded a better life for all Americans through nonviolent protest and mutual aid.
Fully ready to kill, shockingly unprepared to save lives
Blog / 19th January 2022Just a fraction of the giant amount spent on the world’s military – 2,000,000,000,000 US dollars – could meet the UN’s major funding appeals for ending starvation and tackling the coronvirus pandemic, writes Baher Kamal for IPS news.
The people of Afghanistan are starving; to turn our backs on them is morally wrong
Blog / 14th January 2022This is the new world order revealed at its most selfish and morally defective: countries trapped in a geopolitics that puts military and economic sanctions before food for the hungry, writes Gordon Brown.
New book: The Sharing Economy by Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi
Blog / 12th January 2022STWR have published a book of the classic text by Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi, titled ‘The Sharing Economy: Inaugurating an Age of the Heart’.
Activism will be key to overcoming the Covid-19 crisis
Blog / 7th January 2022Sharing doses alone is not enough, we also need to share the vaccine technology to end the coronavirus pandemic. But only people’s organising is going to make leaders take that bold action in 2022, writes Ben Phillips.