As the world nears three million reported deaths from COVID-19 and almost 130 million infections, the call for free vaccines for all people rings louder than ever. There is no alternative to a people’s vaccine, no alternative to life over profit. This week’s newsletter is dedicated to our Red Alert no. 10, A People’s Vaccine. Guided by inputs of scientists and doctors, we look at the medical, social, and political basis that undergirds the demand for the production, distribution, and administration of a people’s vaccine.

On April 11, the future of Ecuador is at stake: on one side, the banker Lasso, supported by Lenin Moreno, the U.S. Embassy, and the right-wing indigenous bureaucracy; on the other, Andrés Arauz and a project of social justice based on the citizens’ revolution promoted by Rafael Correa.

Farmers from Uttarakhand and northwest UP – several of whom have taken part in the farm protests – say that the state-run mandis, though flawed, are essential for their survival

Raising them is one of the easiest ways we have to claw back funds from the private sector to help finance some of the investment we need. Perhaps more importantly, the fight over corporate tax increases provides us with an important opportunity to make the case that the public interest is not well served by reliance on corporate profitability.

The brutal fact is that Yemeni lives–like many others–are expendable for U.S. Senators and British MPs, who form part of a chain of imperialism that extends back for many centuries. Britain itself is a satrapy, prime ministers from Thatcher to Johnson little more than adjutants to the White House. Revelling in that status, they would like nothing more than to drag Yemen into their tent. So far they have failed. The costs of this venture have been high for the people of that beleaguered country, much higher than the profits accruing to the arms industries. Yet a permanent arms economy requires two, three, many ‘humanitarian wars’. Yemen will not be the last.