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In Ecuador, abaca workers are demanding justice and an end to 60 years of modern-day slavery

23rd February 2021 Equal Times 0

In December 2003, after 30 years spent labouring on an abaca plantation, Susana Quiñonez finally summoned the courage to demand better working conditions from her […]

In Kenya, women bear the brunt as mechanisation wipes out tea sector jobs

18th February 2021 Equal Times 0

On a cool Tuesday evening in Kapkugerwet village in Kenya’s Kericho County, Lucy Cheres puts a tea basket on her hunched back and heads out […]

South Asia’s migrant workers are facing a jobs crisis both at home and abroad

15th February 2021 Equal Times 0

In February 2020, PK Valsala, a 45-year-old single woman from Kerala, south India, went to Oman to start a job as a domestic worker. She […]

As climate displacement increases, migration myths fuel fears

10th February 2021 Equal Times 0

Wave by wave, Saint-Louis is slowly but steadily sinking beneath the rising ocean; the waters that once provided the northern Senegalese city with sustenance now threatening its […]

The army’s encroachment on the civilian economy is costing Egyptian workers dearly

8th February 2021 Equal Times 0

Their faces marked by exhaustion and sadness, thousands of Delta fertilizer company employees continue with their sit-in protest against the decision taken by the Dakahlia […]

India’s farmers won’t stop protesting until Modi’s unfair agricultural reforms are repealed

27th January 2021 Equal Times 0

Narayan Gaikwad has sent 250 postcards to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and intends to send 300 more. Written meticulously, he wants to draw attention […]

Bernard Duterme: “The environmental movement must be urgently decolonised”

25th January 2021 Equal Times 0

We may all be in the same boat, but not all of us have access to the lifeboats. This expression, borrowed from the Cameroonian economist […]

The fight for safe rates for transportation workers in South Korea

20th January 2021 Equal Times 0

In the past decade, South Korea has emerged as one of East Asia’s most advanced digital economies, with e-commerce, ride-hailing, and other services all growing. […]

Democracy and health: how citizen participation can also contribute to better health care

18th January 2021 Equal Times 0

“The authorities have been very quick to take decisions during the Covid crisis,” says Siiri Ann Doka. Too quick, perhaps, for citizens and patients to […]

Argentina at an energy crossroads: the role of trade unions in building a just transition

14th December 2020 Equal Times 0

Argentina is at a crossroads. The repercussions of the pandemic look set to worsen the socio-economic crisis already looming over the country and are having […]

Why the Omnibus Law is not only an assault on workers’ rights but also on Indonesia’s SDG progress

8th December 2020 Equal Times 0

Besides a raging Covid-19 pandemic that has seen Indonesia produce the second highest confirmed death toll in Asia after India, widespread opposition to President Joko […]

Why Maradona will always remain our working class hero

30th November 2020 Martin Jansen 0

From his roots in a Buenos Aires slum to his irreverence for FIFA and his support for socialist governments of Latin America, Maradona was an icon for the left.

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