On 25 May 2022, 8,000 people marched to the Warangal Municipal Corporation and handed in 10,000 applications for housing. Working alongside members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Jakkaloddi Struggle Committee has built 4,600 huts in their land occupation as a popular response to the severe national housing deficit.  Though the housing crisis is worsening on a global level, an appetite to transcend it is increasing – from the shack dwellers in South Africa to landless workers in Brazil and renters in Germany.

With Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, it is clear that a new kind of madness is seeping into global political discourse, a poisonous fog that suffocates reason. This fog, which has long marinated in the old, ugly ideas of white supremacy and Western superiority, is clouding our ideas of humanity. The general malady that ensues is deep suspicion and hatred of China, not just of its current leadership or even the Chinese political system, but hatred of just about anything to do with China.

On 9 July 2022, remarkable images floated across social media from Colombo, Sri Lanka, when thousands of people rushed into the presidential palace and chased out former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The people that gathered at Galle Face Green Park and other venues in Sri Lanka rioted because the economic situation in the country had become intolerable. Sri Lanka’s ruling class has been unable – perhaps unwilling – to end its dependency on foreign buyers of its low-value products and on the foreign lenders who subsidise its debt.

Europe is wracked by instability as the war in Ukraine has exacerbated the region’s fragile energy situation and heads of government have been forced to resign in Italy, Bulgaria, Estonia, and the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, there is an emerging clarity in the Global South regarding the US-European attempt to drive a belligerent agenda around the world through NATO. Although the military alliance may believe that it possesses global authority, the majority of the world does not.

Over the past four decades, approximately 500,000 households have taken control of millions of hectares of land across Brazil led by the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST), forming the largest social movement in Latin America. Guided by a theory rooted around concepts such as agrarian reform and influenced by the ideas of the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci, the MST works to build the organisational and ideological strength of the peasantry and create a political project for social emancipation.