"Buyers in China, India and Europe continued importing after sanctions last year, so Venezuela’s oil exports did not fall as much as some U.S. officials expected. Washington recently said it will go after customers in Asia, as well as intermediary firms that have helped hide the origin of the crude."

Gig economy companies seem to be doing little to protect workers in the face of coronavirus.

"Lab capacity has made testing possible. Canada has three government labs that can confirm infection, and Ontario has said its lab alone could handle up to 1,000 samples a day. Washington state said on Wednesday its state lab can only test about 100 patients a day.

In Ontario, several major hospitals said they are also running diagnostic tests more broadly than the province requires."

For decades, establishment French politicians have painted youths from Paris’s majority-minority suburbs as antisocial “scum.” But the generation of the banlieue revolts are now of working age — and they’ve been at the forefront of the strike to defend France’s pension system.

Google ‘international women’s day’ and the first hit that comes up is internationalwomensday.com. Despite looking the part, the site is a corporate co-option, promoting international companies with a history of exploitative labour practices, writes Rosa Campbell. 

Dear sisters:

Equality doesn’t have to be a distant dream.

As we “celebrate” International Women’s Day this year, it’s important to remind our

Definitely not apartheid.