May 2016

… Brazil, failure to reform; waiting for the Tobin tax; Iran elections, high hopes, little change; US, retreat into isolationism? Calais Jungle, the inside story; Ukraine’s healthcare timebomb; Japan, a women’s place? UK, India caste rules linger on; German American kultur war… and more…

  • Why firefighters are against free trade — Serge Halimi

    The French demonstrators in the Nuit Debout movement (Up All Night) hope that a convergence of struggles will enable them to extend their appeal beyond the young and university-educated, and become part of an international dynamic. One of their campaign issues — the rejection of free trade treaties — may help those objectives.
    The intricacies of trade agreements often discourage protest, as it is very hard to know which stage of the process to scrutinise most closely, or which apparently (...)
    Translated by George Miller

  • Brazil’s cold coup * — Laurent Delcourt

    Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment isn’t proof of Brazilian democracy. Rather, the left has failed to reform the political system, and trapped itself.
    Translated by Krystyna Horko
  • ‘I give my mother everything i earn’

    Children at work * — Robin Cavagnoud

    Under-16s in Andean countries are encouraged by their governments to combine part- or full-time work with their schooling, to support their families.
    Translated by Krystyna Horko
  • Iranians’ electoral choice between ‘bad and worse’

    Big hopes, smaller changes * — Shervin Ahmadi and Philippe Descamps

    There will be fewer conservatives in Iran’s new parliament, but the election will bring only limited change. Reformers and moderates supporting President Rohani hope to introduce progress into what is now a nationalist, more than Islamic, regime.
    Translated by George Miller

  • ‘Come and vote’ — Philippe Descamps

  • Retrenchment or retreat into isolationism

    What US foreign policy? * — Benoît Bréville

    Since the second world war, the US has swung between confidence and doubt in its ability to govern the world. Obama was not inclined to get involved in ‘dumb wars’, and nor, it turns out, are Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.
    Translated by Charles Goulden

  • An enemy within * — Pierre Rimbert

    There are terrible precedents for attacking immigrant culture — like the well organised and sponsored US campaign during the first world war.
    Translated by Charles Goulden
  • France blocks EU financial levy

    Will Europe ever get a Tobin tax? — Frédéric Lemaire

    The Tobin tax on financial transactions has been a popular ambition for over 20 years, and an actual political goal for eight.
    Translated by Charles Goulden
  • ‘State is not facing up to its responsibilities’

    Ukraine’s corrupt healthcare * — Sébastien Gobert

    Separatism and conflict have degraded Ukraine’s healthcare, and treatment for those with HIV and TB is inadequate.
    Translated by Charles Goulden

  • Reform on hold * — Hélène Richard

  • ‘The most ambitious are first to give up’

    Japan’s stay-at-home mothers * — Johann Fleuri

    The majority of Japanese women give up work when they have children because of lack of childcare, poor career prospects or discrimination. And the statistics are worsening.
    Translated by Charles Goulden
  • ‘Caste consciousness widespread in the UK’

    The Dalits of Coventry * — Alexia Eychenne

    The first Indian migrants to Britain thought that they had left the caste system behind. It followed them across the world.
    Translated by Krystyna Horko
  • Not all wars and not all victims

    Uncertain refuge in Calais — Peter Blodau and Elle Kurancid

    Peter Blodau drew and recorded the inhabitants of the Calais Jungle migrant camp as parts of it were being demolished.
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