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The Transnational Institute (TNI) is an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic and sustainable planet.
From one local initiative in 2015 to 177 pharmacies nationwide, Chile’s popular pharmacies show how public ownership and citizen demand can expand access to affordable medicines: www.tni.org/en/article/t...
What does cancer research have to do with the climate crisis? For Hamza Hamouchene, everything. Drawing on his journey from lab to activism, he shows how the same capitalist logic — treating symptoms, protecting profits — is killing us twice. www.tni.org/en/article/f...
The EU's military spending is set to increase by more than 400% in the next budget cycle. But redirecting tax money into weapons will not solve the social, economic, ecological, and political crises facing Europe and the world. On the contrary, it deepens them. www.tni.org/en/publicati...
Since 2017, the EU has rapidly expanded its military role and increased its support for the arms industry. The current seven-year EU-budget is the first to include significant military spending. But this budgetary shift comes at a price, as our new factsheets show. www.tni.org/en/publicati...
🚨Essential Concepts of Land Politics: An A–Z Guide is now freely available in Open Access. The book advances a holistic understanding of land politics as inseparable from the politics of food, climate, labour, citizenship, and geopolitics. www.tni.org/en/publicati...
Join Makan & TNI's joint upcoming online lecture: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join us with @attac.org and @corporateeurope.org as we gather to celebrate the life and legacy of Susan George. Register now: eu01web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Land grabbing did not disappear when the headlines faded. Across the world, corporations, investors and states continue to reshape control over land and resources, often through quieter, normalized processes. www.tni.org/en/article/l...
Tunisia’s green transition is often framed as opportunity. This report asks: opportunity for whom, and on what terms? www.tni.org/en/publicati...
Remembering is resistance. On International Day of Peasant Struggles, we honor land defenders killed for justice, connect past and present violence, and affirm memory as defiance against exploitation, dispossession, and ecological destruction. www.tni.org/en/article/c...
Italy, the birthplace of fascism teaches us that fascism evolves within democracy and adapts to new economic and political conditions while preserving its core function of defending capital and hierarchy, writes @irenecrestanello.bsky.social: www.tni.org/en/article/f...
Could feminist care ethics provide a framework for listening and engaging with far-right supporters, that could build understanding, relationship and ultimately undermine fascist support? www.tni.org/en/article/i...
Authoritarianism isn’t just about institutions—it reshapes land, water, forests, and energy to entrench power and dispossess communities. In India, this has intensified under BJP rule, where extractive development aligns with Hindutva’s majoritarian vision. www.tni.org/en/article/a...
The night Brazil said no to Trump (and changed the internet forever) www.tni.org/en/article/t...
What is called Palestine’s centrality is not a hierarchy of suffering. It is where imperial power concentrates and where resistance reveals connections across struggles, making visible how liberation in one place is tied to liberation elsewhere. www.tni.org/en/article/p...
Israel has branded itself as the “Start-up Nation,” projecting a glossy, tech-optimist state. This techwashing serves a fascist agenda, securing international legitimisation of the ongoing colonisation of Palestine, while inspiring authoritarian, tech-dystopias worldwide. www.tni.org/en/article/t...
In today’s global food system, migrant farmworkers remain central yet exploited. This longread details why we need strong alliances between migrants, peasants, farmers, and food sovereignty movements worldwide. www.tni.org/en/article/m...
New report: The EU paid universities more than €100 million to build Europe’s border regime Universities provide research, analysis, data and technology for border and migration control - and lend an illusion of scientific legitimacy to ethically questionable policies. tni.org/borderlabs
This webinar brings together movements and critical voices to unpack a widening war driven by US imperial power and Israeli expansion, now stretching from Gaza into Iran and Lebanon with profound consequences for the region and beyond. www.tni.org/en/event/the...
The rise of authoritarian leaders worldwide is the result of an economic and political system of neoliberalism running out of steam and unable to tackle the crises of inequality, precarity, climate collapse and social anxiety that it has created. www.tni.org/en/article/t...
We may think of today’s far right as climate deniers and fossil fuel cheerleaders with little regard for nature, but there are strands of the far right movements that link nature, territory, and identity in ways that reinforce exclusionary politics: eco-fascism. www.tni.org/en/article/t...
The current world order is cracking under the weight of corporate power, debt, and militarization. Across the Global South, movements and thinkers are asking what comes next and how international cooperation can serve peoples rather than empires. www.tni.org/en/article/t...
Morocco’s green industrial path faces structural barriers rooted in dependence and extractive growth. A transition that works begins with public investment and local control. www.tni.org/en/publicati...
What is behind the increasing criminalisation of migrants and those standing in solidarity with them? Josephine Solanki who anchors our borders work will speak at @world-beyond-war.bsky.social's Virtual Film Festival. Sign up here: worldbeyondwar.org/filmfest2026/
Confronting border fascism requires recognising its roots in global capitalism and supporting movements that challenge racialised borders through solidarity, accountability, and collective resistance. www.tni.org/en/article/f...
In 2023, far-right politicians tried the old trick of using anti-gender narratives in Guatemala to win elections, but a center-left party won. What happened and what lessons can activists draw? www.tni.org/en/article/c...
Anti gender mobilisation is moving from memes to ministries. Digital radicalisation, disinformation, and organised harassment silence dissent and shrink democratic space. Feminist movements can build counterpower through law, solidarity, and collective resistance. www.tni.org/en/article/w...
Far-right regimes can govern without broad popular support. Controlling media, rewriting rules, and weakening institutions lets authoritarian capitalism run smoothly from the top. Resistance requires fracturing capital. www.tni.org/en/article/f...
Industrialization in the Global South, from Indonesia’s mineral downstreaming to green transition agendas, reproduces dependency and green extractivism. Industrial politics from below centers collective capacity to produce and reproduce life. www.tni.org/en/article/i...
Silicon Valley has thrown much of its support behind Trump for reasons of opportunism, appeasement or fear. But the roots for its fascist turn were laid long before by a culture steeped in racial hierarchies, jingoism, and militaristic utopian visions. www.tni.org/en/article/t...