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More than 3,000 Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) protested in the city of Kolhapur India's Maharashtra state on October 26 after several of their demands, such as the legal status of full-time workers, better working conditions, adequate pay, medical insurance, and others, weren’t met / credit: Sanket Jain

Photo Essay: India’s Rural Health Workers Fell Ill As Workload Spiked During Pandemic

Sanket Jain April 19, 2022 Sanket Jain

In March 2020, India’s health ministry tasked 1 million Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) with COVID-19 duty in rural areas. This, in a country where 65 percent of its 1.38 billion people live outside cities. Suddenly, ASHAs’ workload increased exponentially. Yet, they remain underpaid and now suffer stress-related chronic ailments, reports Sanket Jain.

The words in Arabic written on the wall read "Long live the struggle of the Sudanese people" / credit: Revolutionary masses of Sudan

Understanding the Who and the Why of the Sudan Coup

Kribsoo Diallo January 10, 2022 Kribsoo Diallo

Sudan needs to alter its position in the global conflict to be in the place that meets the interests of its people. That is, inevitably away from the Western camp and Washington, writes Kribsoo Diallo in the first of a 2-part series on the October 25 coup.

More than 15,000 people participated in a November 22, 2021, protest at the White House to express their disappointment with the Biden administration's coercive diplomatic strategy policy towards the democratically elected government of Ethiopia / credit: Twitter/Gennet Negussie

How the Left Can Get Ethiopia Right: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with #NoMore

Filmon Zerai December 17, 2021 Filmon Zerai

In the last few months, the left media outlets from various camps, in their sincere attempts to demonstrate solidarity and spotlight conflict in the Horn of Africa and internal developments in Ethiopia, got it wrong. They have been uncritically centering active ideological players on two opposing camps, writes blogger Filmon Zerai.

Farmers protest in India on December 26, 2020 / credit: Ravan Khosa

11 Months Later, Indian Farmers Still Resist Laws That Help Big Business

Bharat Dogra October 29, 2021 Bharat Dogra

The Indian farmers' movement is part of the worldwide struggle to save small farmer communities. The movement can gain traction if protesting farmers include the concerns of landless rural households, who now comprise almost half of households in the Indian countryside.

Cuban medical brigade doctors in 2020

The United States Tries to Take Advantage of the Price Cubans Are Paying for the Blockade and the Pandemic

Manolo De Los Santos and Vijay Prashad July 15, 2021 Manolo De Los Santos and Vijay Prashad

If the U.S.-imposed blockade ended, many of the great challenges facing Cuba would lift.

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