Release of Anarchist Newspaper “Tinta de Fuga” Number 4

Tinta de Fuga. Anarchist newspaper against prisons and prison society. N°4. August. Second half of 2022.

This fourth issue of Tinta de Fuga is a special issue against the military justice system’s sentences of Marcelo Villarroel, against justice, the military and prisons. With 2,000 copies for free distribution we have expanded the places where you can find the publication in the territory dominated by the Chilean State:

La Serena: Umberto Marzocchi Bookstore.
Valparaíso: Espacio Flora/ Serrano 591. Of.9
El Tabo: Antro Libros/Feria artesanal La Casona. Of.9
Santiago: Pensamiento y Batalla, Feria Anticarcelaria, Editorial Memoria Negra, Librería Desquiebre and Sebastián Oversluij Library.
Concepción: Jane Vanini Bookstore
Villarrica: Biblioteca Lectura Súbita
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THE TRUE FACE OF THE MULTINATIONAL DRUG COMPANIES

The term ‘Big Pharma’ refers to the multinational pharmaceutical corporations whose stories of experimentation in the Global South, corruption, falsified publications and various nefariousness deserve to be highlighted so as not to forget who we are dealing with, especially at an historical moment in which they are presenting themselves as the saviours of humanity. These unscrupulous companies have amassed immense fortunes over the years, thanks to which they have carved out a central role for themselves in management and political and social organisation at global level. This power places itself far above States and governments, managing to impose its will through funding and publications in every context.

FINANCING AND CORRUPTION: HERE’S HOW IT WORKS

Believing there is any control over the activities and products of Big Pharma is a mere illusion, as the so-called control bodies that are supposed to check drugs’ safety before they are put on the market and the various health protocols to be followed are lavishly financed by the pharmaceutical companies themselves.

On doing a little research, one discovers that the EMA, the European Medicines Agency, is more than 80% funded by Big Pharma and that a quarter of its administrative board members have links with it. Even the WHO is corrupt and financed 80% by private individuals: of these, the ‘Bill and Melinda Gates’ foundation alone covers 10 per cent of it and, although at first sight it appears to be a small part, it comes to billions, more than enough to decide on priorities.

To confirm the fact that the decisions of this body are always in favour of the financiers and not in the interest of the population are the very words of former WHO director Margaret Chan: “my budget is directed towards what I call donor interests”.

In total silence from the media and politics on 23 April 2020, the training of doctors and the reorganisation of the healthcare system in Italy has been entrusted to Sanofi Italia, a giant of the pharmaceutical industry. The stated aim is to ‘train the doctors of the future on constantly evolving clinical issues’. Simply put, it can officially decide which drugs doctors should prescribe, effectively allowing this multinational drug company to manage the healthcare system in its own interests.

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