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Globalization from Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan until today

21 December 2021 - by Eric Toussaint

In this study, Éric Toussaint covers the period from the 15th to the 21st century, focusing on the dramatic effects of capitalist globalisation. The beginning of Globalization goes back to the outcomes of the first voyage of Christopher (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
The destruction and grabbing of collective commons

4 October 2021 - by Eric Toussaint

Since the dawn of capitalism the logic of collective commons has been systematically challenged by the capitalist class through commodification and private appropriation of wealth. One of their earliest objectives, when factories started to (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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

End the system of private patents!
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 (...)
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 (...)
Covid-19: stage assessment on the multidimensional crisis and alternative approaches

19 April 2020 - by Eric Toussaint

The health crisis is far from being over. The capitalist system and neoliberal policies have played a fundamental part all through. It is useful to do an assessment of these first months. The present crisis is also an opportunity to realize the (...)
From climate denialism to activist alliances

9 January 2010 - by Patrick Bond

Seattle offers a lesson to the African negotiators at the climate talks: by walking out - alongside civil society protesters - and halting a bad deal in Copenhagen on December 18, we can together pave the way for subsequent progress. (...)