Author: Susan Spronk
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Canada’s Development Finance Institution and Land Grabbing in Africa
On Wednesday, April 27th, 2022, we caught up with Devlin Kuyek, a researcher at GRAIN, a small international non-profit organization that works to support small farmers and social movements in … Keep reading »
Privatization, Blended Finance and Canada’s Development Policies: A Pan-African Feminist Critique
On Tuesday, November 9, 2021, we spoke with Crystal Simeoni, the Director of the Nawi – Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective (Nawi Collective), a community of individuals and organizations working on influencing, … Keep reading »
Postal Banking: Public Banks that Do Not Only Serve the Rich!
On Wednesday, August 20, 2021, we caught up with Matt Corbeil and Geoff Bickerton, who both work in the Research Department of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). Matt … Keep reading »
Anti-Privatization Movements in the Global South: P3s and Women's Human Rights
On March 29, 2021, we caught up with Corina Rodriguez Enriquez and Masaya Llavaneras Blanco, researchers with Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) “a network of feminist … Keep reading »
COVID-19 and Public Sector Workers: Tax Justice, the Just Transition and the Care Economy
An Interview with Daniel Bertossa – Public Services International On Wednesday, March 24, 2021 we caught up with Daniel Bertossa, Assistant General Secretary at Public Services International (PSI), a global union … Keep reading »
The Struggle for Water Justice is a Struggle for Gender and Racial Justice
The essay is published in honour of World Water Day, which has been held every year on March 22 since 1993. The goal of this day is to celebrate water … Keep reading »
A Short Guide for Canadian Anti-Imperialists on the Current Crisis in Venezuela
With the Lima Group meeting in Ottawa, the news of the crisis in Venezuela has hit Canadian headlines. This short guide intends to provide some key talking points for progressives who might not be ready to comment on what is happening in Venezuela, but are critical of the interventionist stance of the Canadian government. Keep reading »
Hands Off Venezuela!
What Has Been Happening Since February and Why It Matters The recent destabilization campaign waged by the right-wing opposition has yet again made Venezuela a darling of the international media. While … Keep reading »
February Traumas
The Third Insurrectionary Moment of the Venezuelan Right “Today the counter-revolutionary Right is reactivating itself,” according to long-time Venezuelan revolutionary Roland Denis, “taking advantage of the profound deterioration that this slow … Keep reading »
21st Century Eco-Socialism? Struggles over Nature in Venezuela
Santiago Arconada was the first Community Coordinator for the Caracas metropolitan region of HIDROCAPITAL, the city’s water utility, and subsequently held several prominent positions in HIDROVEN, the national water company. … Keep reading »
Venezuela: “Open Horizons”
An interview with Roland Denis Roland Denis is a leading intellectual and revolutionary in Venezuela. He served as Vice Minister of Planning in the Hugo Chávez government in 2002-03, but resigned … Keep reading »
“Now is the time!”: Struggle for Sexual Diversity in Venezuela
An Interview with Maria Gabriela Blanco Alianza sexo-género diversa revolucionaria(Revolutionary Alliance of Sex-Gender, and Diversity, ASGDRe) Under Hugo Chávez, there have been many gains in the struggle for liberation, including … Keep reading »