About the Authors ALTERNACTIVA is a Mozambican collective Ruth Castel-Branco is a labour scholar and platform, which offers an online space and activist. She holds a PhD in Sociology for open debate and rigorous analysis from the University of the Witwatersrand. about various aspects of socioeconomic, She is based at the Southern Centre for political and cultural life in Mozambique. Inequality Studies at the University of Its objective is to support movement the Witwatersrand, where she manages building through the development of a the Future of Work(ers) research project. collective political consciousness, anchored She is also an associate of the Instituto in progressive ideas and positions, across de Estudos Sociais e Económicos and disparate sectors and social movements. an Inequality Fellow of the Open Society Its founding members include young Foundations. She is a co-founder of Mozambican academics, activists and Alternactiva - Acção Pela Emancipação artists, committed to social emancipation. Social. Edgar Barroso is a PhD candidate in Boaventura Monjane holds a PhD on International Relations, at the Institute Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship, of Social Studies, Ankara Yıldırım from the Faculty of Economics, University Beyazıt University. He is an Assistant of Coimbra. He is based at the Institute Researcher at the Faculty of Humanities, for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies Universidade Pedagógica de Maputo, at the University of the Western Cape, and an International Relations Officer where he is a postdoctoral researcher. at the Cooperation Office, Universidade He is also a fellow of the International Pedagógica de Maputo. He is a co-founder Research Group on Authoritarianism and of Alternactiva - Acção Pela Emancipação Counter-Strategies of the Rosa Luxemburg Social. Foundation, and an associate researcher at the Centre for African Studies at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane. He is a co-founder of Alternactiva - Acção Pela Emancipação Social. 5 Fast-tracking Financialization - International Financial Institutions’ Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Mozambique