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Life expectancy and human development in the 21st century
19 September 2022 - by Michael Roberts
Life expectancy is one of the best measures of human development. In hunter-gather societies, on average, about 57-67% of children made it to 15 years. Then 79% of those 15 year-olds made it to 45 years. Finally, those remaining at 45 years (...) -
Philanthrocapitalism seen from South Africa
9 August 2022 - by Patrick Bond
Presentation to the African Philanthropy Academic Conference, 2 August 2022 University of the Witwatersrand Business School Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment, by Patrick Bond, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University (...) -
The WTO and Vaccinations: Greed and Profits Win
3 August 2022 - by Prabir Purkayastha
The UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima had appealed before the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference in Geneva that the world would face a grim future if patent waivers did not take place. At a press conference, Byanyima had said, “In a (...) -
The financialisation of malaria in Africa: Burkina Faso
9 June 2022 - by African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB)
The financialisation of malaria in Africa: Burkina Faso, rogue capital & GM /gene drive mosquitoes This paper seeks to understand the financialisation of malaria as a vehicle for rogue capital in a context of a weakened state (through (...) -
Latin America
Report on Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) for the CADTM World Assembly, Dakar, 13 -16 November 2021
23 December 2021 - by CADTM AYNA
Synthesis based on the responses received on the following questionnaire, from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, Uruguay and Venezuela. The most important element in the political, economic and social situation in Latin America and the (...) -
The coronavirus pandemic has widened the gap between the Global North and the Global South
14 December 2021 - by Eric Toussaint
Confronted with the coronavirus pandemic that started end of 2019-beginning of 2020, the governments of long-standing imperialist powers (Western Europe, North America, Japan, Australia-New Zealand) and private pharmaceutical corporations have (...) -
Moderna’s free ride
29 October 2021 - by Vincent Kiezebrink
A leaked contract between Moderna and the European Commission indicates that the company’s vaccine profits will end up in some of the world’s worst tax havens. The contract signed with Moderna shows that it intends to receive payment for its EU (...) -
[Video] Health for All! Demand a waiver on patents!
29 October 2021 - by Eric Toussaint, Frank Prouhet, Aude Martenot, Eliane Mandine
Since the pandemic began, more than 240 million cases and nearly 5 million deaths from Covid have been officially reported. Aside from the different measures taken to slow the spread of the pandemic, the majority of countries have launched (...) -
Coronavirus: Global Collective Commons vs Big Pharma
21 October 2021 - by Eric Toussaint
Research and production of vaccines were largely financed by public money The development and production of anti-Covid vaccines were extensively financed by public money The development and production of anti-Covid vaccines were extensively (...) -
Moderna’s free ride
7 October 2021 - by Vincent Kiezebrink
A leaked contract between Moderna and the European Commission indicates that the company’s vaccine profits will end up in some of the world’s worst tax havens. The contract signed with Moderna shows that it intends to receive payment for its EU (...) -
How Big Pharma appropriates knowledge and profits in a time of Coronavirus
6 October 2021 - by Eric Toussaint
Patents, TRIPS and Big Pharma… Not only does Big Capital not share scientific findings but it grabs them and makes others pay for them Knowledge, scientific discoveries, and technical processes ought to be common goods of humankind. Yet, as (...) -
For the lifting of patents on anti-covid vaccines, let’s mobilize together at the WTO and G20 meeting!
27 September 2021 - by Collectif Brevets sur les vaccins anti-covid, stop ! Réquisition
The WTO TRIPS Council meets on 13 and 14 October in Geneva. The G20 meets in Rome on 30 and 31 October. Let us use these dates to raise the demand for the lifting of patents, for technology transfers, for universal, immediate and free (...) -
Multinational Corporations and COVID-19: Intellectual property rights vs. human rights
11 September 2021 - by Peter Rossman
The multilateral trading system anchored by the WTO is not confined to cross-border trade in physical goods. It was also designed to protect corporate knowledge monopolies. Developing countries were told that strict adherence to the rules of (...) -
What kind of austerity after the Covid crisis?
9 July 2021 - by Eva Betavatzi
The present circumstances seem to rule out – for a time – using public debt considered to be excessive as a pretext for drastic austerity measures. The illusion of having escaped the vicious circle of debt to austerity is reinforced by the (...) -
Vaccine Apartheid and the Delta Variant
29 June 2021 - by Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
The term “delta” in science and mathematics denotes a difference, or a gap; as in the delta between two values. In geography, a delta is where a river meets the sea, spreading out, covering the most area in its course. In reference to the ongoing (...) -
Immunity is liberty
17 June 2021 - by Amitabha Sarkar
We publish this important article by Amitabha Sarkar from India, scholar of international development of health politics, member of the People’s Health Movement (PHM India) and associated with the Transnational Institute (TNI). His article (...) -
The G7 summit 2021: Will this alliance of the rich and new allies solve our current crises?
11 June 2021 - by Dorothy Guerrero
The heads of states of the Group of 7 (G7). Importantly, the rise of China has also changed the global configuration of power and influence. Biden’s hosting of a [climate summit->https://www.state.gov/leaders-summit-on-climate in April (...) -
List of signatory organisations: End the private patent system! For a pharmaceutical industry under popular control and a free, universal and public vaccination system.
8 June 2021 - by CADTM International, Collective, Attac France, World March of Women, TNI
At the initiative of CADTM International, two hundred and fifty social organisations, trade unions, NGOs and other movements active in the five continents have signed an international appeal (...) -
List of the first 360 signatures of people who support the End the Private Patent System Manifesto! #FREECOVIDPATENTS
8 June 2021 - by Eric Toussaint, CADTM International, Collective, Naomi Klein, Cinzia Arruzza , Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser, Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad, Arundhati Roy, Achin Vanaik
Among the personalities supporting the End the Private Patent System Manifesto! For a pharmaceutical industry under popular control and a free, universal and public vaccination system which was launched by the global network of CADTM, includes (...) -
Press release by CADTM international
More than 350 personalities from all over the world support the Manifesto “End the Private Patent System”
8 June 2021 - by CADTM International
As a new round of negotiations begins at the World Trade Organization (WTO), more than 350 personalities from around the world lend their support to the Manifesto End the Private Patent System! For a pharmaceutical industry under popular control (...) -
End the system of private patents!
8 June 2021 - by CADTM International, Collective, World March of Women, TNI, Womin
Thanks to a huge scientific effort based on international collaboration and historic amounts of public money, humanity has been able to develop several effective vaccines against COVID-19 in less than a year. However, this great achievement (...) -
To confront the pandemic and the global capitalist crisis, the alter-globalisation movement must be relaunched
18 May 2021 - by CADTM International
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The West Has Been Hoarding More Than Vaccines
6 May 2021 - by Walden Bello
I’ve had my first Covid-19 vaccine jab, drawn from the limited supply of the AstraZeneca doses that has made its way to the developing world. As a senior, I’m part of a so-called priority sector eligible to receive it in the Philippines, a country (...) -
The year of the pandemic
12 March 2021 - by Michael Roberts
It is one year to the day since the World Health Organisation (WHO) [declared the COVID-19 outbreak or epidemic as a ‘pandemic’->https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/89/7/11-088815/en, namely the global spread of the disease. Of course, COVID-19 (...) -
South Africa: Vaccine Apartheid or Equality?
30 January 2021 - by Rehad Desai, South African Federation of Trade Unions
We are in the middle of a global shortage of supplies of COVID-19 vaccines. We are reliving the saga that happened early in the pandemic around access to personal protective equipment (PPE), where each country fought for its own patch. Getting (...)
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