Transnational Institute

We are living in a fractured world where neoliberalism is unraveling, authoritarianism is rising, and repression is intensifying. Social movements face a new reality that demands new strategies.

Fractures is an eight-week teach-in series (30 April – 18 June) created to go beyond the headlines and uncover the deeper forces shaping this moment.

Join leading thinkers and activists from across the globe as they examine the major challenges of our time—from the collapse of the international order to the rise of fascism and climate breakdown—and share bold, practical strategies for resistance, justice, and collective liberation.

Speakers include 🗣 Jayati Ghosh, Aziz Rana, Quinn Slobodian, Tasneem Essop, Aslı Ü. Bâli, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Achin Vanaik, Shanelle Matthews, Kali Akuno and Tooba Syed.

📅 4.00 - 5.30 pm CEST. Weekly from 30 April - 18 June.
✨ Register now: https://www.tni.org/en/form/registration-fractures-series
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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) claims to respect the rights of migrants. But our new research shows links between the IOM and serious human rights violations perpetrated against migrants in the Balkans, where its presence is overwhelmingly funded by the EU.

https://www.tni.org/en/publication/repackaging-imperialism

Our co-founder and first director Eqbal Ahmad passed away on this day 24 years ago.

Ahmad was a Pakistani political scientist, writer and academic known for his anti-war activism and his support for resistance movements globally.

The Eqbal Ahmad Project

Why We Need to Abolish Borders │ Harsha Walia This video is part of a monthly series. Watch all videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6JRfkdlcGYWFO9hdjtk9ISAMbrHCHfqYBorders uphold a globa...

During the 2011 Arab Spring and the Occupy movement, social media was seen as a technology of liberation. Yet ten years on, social media is more associated with surveillance, repression and misinformation. What should progressive forces do?

Tying up Goliath | Transnational Institute In recent years, the Right has been more successful at using digital tools than progressive movements. What are the strategies and tactics, progressive movements can use to build digital counter-power?

In 2017, the governor of Salta, Argentina, announced the launching of a Microsoft-designed AI platform to ‘prevent’ teenage pregnancy in the region – but who does such a project actually serve? Certainly not the teenage girls in question.

What Artificial Intelligence is hiding | Transnational Institute In 2017, the governor of Salta, Argentina, signed a project with Microsoft to use AI to prevent teenage pregnancies. The project's failure and its violations of privacy and human rights points to the dangers of relying on AI to tackle social and environmental issues.

By seizing the means of imaginative production, we can transform creativity into a tool for collective liberation that disrupts and overturns the very regimes of digital power that enclose and exploit it.

Abolitionist creativity | Transnational Institute Corporations’ wealth is increasingly built on intangible intellectual property (IP) rights rather than hard assets. What if we could hack these legal and economic codes that underpin capitalism so that they are based on human rights, worker solidarity, ecological sustainability and community wealt...

Military and intelligence agencies use our data not only for spying, but also to reconstruct social networks and even to target individuals for lethal attacks.

Militarising Big Tech | Transnational Institute In the US, Big Tech and the Military are increasingly fused, brought together by finance, joint projects, research and infrastructure. Untying the knot will be key to prevent endless wars abroad and militarised policing at home.

If we want to use our digital data for our collective benefit then we need to find ways to govern it collectively and democratically, rather than leave it in the hands of powerful corporations to do with as they will.

There Are No Markets Anymore | Transnational Institute Big Tech’s power is not just due to their size, but because they collect, control and monetise the very information we need for markets to function. They have become markets unto themselves. Reining them will require thinking that goes beyond regulation.

"A small number of extremely powerful firms, namely Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, have what the European regulators call gatekeeper power – the right to decide who can speak, who can reach one another, how it works."

Seizing the means of computation – how popular movements can topple Big Tech monopolies | Transnational Institute Cory Doctorow is a prolific writer and a brilliant science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist. He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. His....

“A public health crisis was responded to like a military operation. We had instances of health workers being beaten up by the police just for being on the road while going to their job."

India - How the government's pandemic response caused more deaths This video is part of a monthly series on the securitisation of health. Watch all videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6JRfkdlcGYWFO9hdjtk9IS...