Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Bolivian journalist Ollie Vargas to get an update on the situation in Bolivia. The military dictatorship has done little to aid the country's working class as coronavirus spreads. Meanwhile Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), the party of ousted President Evo Morales, is trying to respond to the nation's health crisis on a local level. Elections in the country have been postponed as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Yanis Varoufakis On 23rd October, Yanis Varoufakis testified in front of the Jury of Conscience in the context of the Gaza Tribunal. His speech focused on the economic forces underpinning the genocide of the Palestinian people. In particular, he spoke on the manner in which capitalist dynamics have historically fuelled the white settler colonial project and, more recently, how the accumulation of a new form of capital - which he calls cloud capital - has accelerated, deepened and amplified the economic forces powering and propelling the machinery of genocide.
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