Archive | November, 2021

The organisers of COP26 designated themes for many of the days during the conference, such as energy, finance, and transport. There was no day set aside for a discussion of agriculture; instead, it was bundled into ‘Nature Day’ on 6 November, during which the main topic was deforestation.

60 Minutes Australia has churned out yet another fearmongering war propaganda piece on China, this one so ham-fisted in its call to beef up military spending that it goes so far as to run a brazen advertisement for an actual Australian weapons manufacturer disguised as news reporting.

We need to abandon Petropolis to prevent climate breakdown–and start building the ecomegacities of the future.

You don’t have to read Marx to understand the lack of power workers have under capitalism.

Beijing’s anti-corruption crackdowns, widespread surveillance and strict control over Chinese society is making it harder for the CIA to undermine that nation, and now the CIA is expressing its frustration through the billionaire media.

The reality is that the labor movement has a long struggle ahead and it should not be distracted by unwarranted fears of inflation.

We can be wiser about boundaries for technology.

A conception of the sublime, liberated from its racist, sexist and domineering classic form, should form a part of any ecosocialist imaginary.

The Israeli human rights group said that these settler attacks are used as a “major informal tool” by the state of Israel to displace Palestinians in order to confiscate and annex their lands.

The issue has become one of the key fronts in the development of law and order rhetoric. It is part of the backlash from pro-police elements of society to prevent any changes at all to the country’s hyper militarized, mainly ineffective, racist, and brutal system of policing and the accompanying system of mass incarceration.

Yesterday, November 14, around noon, President Miguel Díaz-Canel arrived at Havana’s Central Park to join the sit-in organized by the Red Bandana collective, an initiative of social network activists, members of Cuban civil society organizations, and promoters of community projects.

To create a safer, more sustainable world, the United States needs to divert border money toward climate action.

Repair, as an act of reclaiming technology, is ongoing in the Global North and South with complementary driving forces and problems.

Following two weeks of negotiations, the UN climate summit COP26 concluded with the Glasgow Climate Pact.

The term ‘voluntourism’ is a portmanteau of the words ‘volunteer’ and ‘tourism’ and refers to a practice in which people, often young upper or middle-class white women in the Global North (Bandyopadhyay and Patil 2017, 645), pay an organization to coordinate their trip to a country in the Global South.

Professor Hudson talked about his formative years, and his turn to economics from music as he found his mentor Terence McCarthy’s speech about economics beautiful and asethetic.

Seizing on small protests over shortages on the island in July, the U.S. is now trying to build anti-government feeling with worldwide protests against socialist Cuba, including one in London—we must show our support instead, writes NATASHA HICKMAN

A group of climate change conspiracy theorists has uncovered a set of strange patterns and repeated terminology in research papers which they say is highly suspicious.

The theses are a working tool and an insurance at the same time of what we are and where we want to go to, while both the path and the goal are open for joint discussion and thus for change.

For women inside prison, the fight for survival is less physical than psychological.