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    Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap

    Originally published: The Conversation on April 22, 2021 by James Dyke, Robert Watson and Wolfgang Knorr (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Apr 27, 2021)

    Sometimes realization comes in a blinding flash. Blurred outlines snap into shape and suddenly it all makes sense. Underneath such revelations is typically a much slower-dawning process. Doubts at the back of the mind grow.

  • “Colonial 5 Franc CFA note, 1926 (recto)” by nebedaay is licensed with CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

    How France continues to dominate its former Colonies in Africa

    Originally published: CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt) on April 26, 2021 by Ndongo Samba Sylla, Fanny Pigeaud and Chris Dite (more by CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt))  | (Posted Apr 27, 2021)

    In France’s former African colonies, imperialist monetary policies from Paris continue to cripple domestic economies and undermine democracy. Colonialism in Africa won’t have meaningfully come to an end until true economic sovereignty is allowed to flourish.

  • Kshama Sawant

    Solidarity with Kshama Sawant: Against the Seattle Elite’s Recall Campaign

    Originally published: Socialist Project on April 19, 2021 by the Socialist Project Steering Committee (more by Socialist Project)  | (Posted Apr 26, 2021)

    A recall election allows citizens to vote out an elected official, after a process of garnering a certain percentage of names on a petition and clearing legal challenges.

  • Plant over profit march

    Is Biden’s big climate pledge real?

    Originally published: Liberation News on April 23, 2021 by Jordan Woll (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Apr 26, 2021)

    Joe Biden chose Earth Day (April 22) to convoke world leaders to a virtual climate summit and pledged to cut U.S. carbon emissions in half by 2030 compared to 2005 levels.

  • Revolution and counter-revolution in Myanmar

    Revolution and counter-revolution in Myanmar

    Originally published: Red Flag on April 20, 2021 by Robert Narai (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Apr 23, 2021)

    Counter-revolutionary violence has reached new heights in Myanmar, as the Tatmadaw (the country’s military) attempts to terrorise a nationwide uprising into submission.

  • (Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images.)

    Migrant women farmworkers: An invisible essential labor force

    Originally published: Inequality.org on April 21, 2021 by Rebekah Entralgo (more by Inequality.org) (Posted Apr 23, 2021)

    The Biden administration must address the industry’s long-standing gender discrimination and systemic inequalities, which have become even more severe during the pandemic.

  • A school of bigeye trevally. CREDIT: NOAA/NMFS/Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center Blog

    Should marine species own the high seas?

    Originally published: Nautilus – Oceans on January 2021 by Karen Bradshaw (more by Nautilus – Oceans) (Posted Apr 23, 2021)

    To save the ocean, give property rights to the creatures living there.

  • A model US “Fair Shares” Pledge

    A model U.S. “fair shares” pledge

    Originally published: EcoEquity on April 20, 2021 by Tom Athanasiou (more by EcoEquity) (Posted Apr 22, 2021)

    You remember the Paris Agreement, right? As a good thing, right?

  • REPORT SHEDS LIGHT ON THE PATTERN OF OVER-POLICING THAT LED COPS TO PULL OVER DAUNTE WRIGHT

    Report sheds light on the pattern of over-policing that led cops to pull over Daunte Wright

    Originally published: The Appeal on April 21, 2021 by Samantha Schuyler (more by The Appeal)  | (Posted Apr 22, 2021)

    The criminal legal system “relies heavily on collecting money from the very people targeted by the system,” in the process incentivizing police to punish as many people as possible, the authors of the ACLU report write.

  • Pentagon Adds Africa to Global Battleground with China and Russia

    Pentagon adds Africa to Global battleground with China and Russia

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on April 19, 2021 by Rick Rozoff (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Apr 21, 2021)

    General Stephen Townsend, commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), and General Kenneth McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, are scheduled to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 22.

  • Bertolt Brecht’s Epic Theatre provides an example of what a Marxist theatre could look like. “Fear and Misery of the Third Reich” by Lake Crimson is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.

    Towards a Marxist theatre

    Originally published: HowlRound on April 15, 2021 by Ezra Brain (more by HowlRound)  | (Posted Apr 21, 2021)

    With the onset of the pandemic, the second Black Lives Matter movement, and the economic crisis, theatre as an art form and an industry is in a period of crisis and rebuilding.

  • PRINCIPLES OF RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS

    Principles of radical political economics

    Originally published: URPE (Union of Radical Political Economics) on April 2021 by Al Campbell, Ann Davis, David Fields, Paddy Quick, Jared Ragusett and Geoffrey Schneider (more by URPE (Union of Radical Political Economics))  | (Posted Apr 20, 2021)

    The starting point for radical political economists is agreement on the need to oppose injustice and oppression and the conviction that a theoretical understanding of contemporary societies can contribute to the political movements necessary to address them.

  • Katherine Angel Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent Verso, London 2021.

    Katherine Angel, ‘Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent’

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on April 19, 2021 by Adrian Kreutz (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Apr 20, 2021)

    Katherine Angel’s intervention into post-feminist discourse fits the script of recent events and sits at what’s hopefully the tail end of post-feminist discourse, otherwise known as ‘the sex wars’.

  • Misbehaving

    Review – Misbehaving

    Originally published: Red Pepper Magazine on March 29, 2021 by Alice Robson (more by Red Pepper Magazine)  | (Posted Apr 19, 2021)

    A new edited volume emphasises that the personal is political and highlights the power of spectacular direct action, says Alice Robson

  • The Advanced Test Reactor has been testing fuels and materials for the nuclear Navy, government and commercial industry since 1967. It also produces valuable medical and industrial isotopes.

    What Bill Gates has wrong about “advanced” nuclear reactors

    Originally published: Union of Concerned Scientists on April 13, 2021 by Colleen MacDonald (more by Union of Concerned Scientists)  | (Posted Apr 19, 2021)

    If nuclear power needs to be part of the climate solution, why not continue to use what we have? I understand the reactors that we have are aging out. But why not either shore those up or use the same design that we currently have where we wouldn’t have to go through the lengthy and costly development phase?

  • French Citizens Convention on Climate Change

    For an ecosocialist transition that breaks from capitalism: Arguments and proposals

    Originally published: Global Ecosocialist Network on April 13, 2021 by Claude Calame (more by Global Ecosocialist Network)  | (Posted Apr 17, 2021)

    The 149 proposals issued by the French Citizens’ Convention on Climate last June, with the goal of achieving at least a 40% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2030 compared to 1990, manifestly belong to a thoroughly reformist approach.

  • Zhang Boju poses for a photo in Beijing, March 2, 2021. Shi Yangkun/Sixth Tone)

    Battles lost, wars won: An environmentalist’s story

    Originally published: Sixth Tone on April 15, 2021 by Li You (more by Sixth Tone)  | (Posted Apr 17, 2021)

    After Friends of Nature director-general Zhang Boju saw his activism fail, he went another route.

  • Port of Los Angeles

    Truck drivers strike at Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach

    Originally published: Splash 247 on April 14, 2021 by Kim Biggar (more by Splash 247)  | (Posted Apr 16, 2021)

    Truck drivers at Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, represented by the Teamsters union, started strike action against Universal Logistics Holdings (ULH) this week, adding further to extraordinary congestion woes at America’s principle west coast maritime gateways.

  • Dennis Banks, Fidel Castro, Alice Walker, Ramsey Clark, in Havana, April 1993. Credit: Gloria La Riva

    Ramsey Clark dies: an Attorney General who turned against imperialism

    Originally published: Liberation on April 10, 2021 by Gloria La Riva (more by Liberation)  | (Posted Apr 15, 2021)

    Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General and renowned international human-rights attorney who stood against U.S. military aggression worldwide, died peacefully April 9 at his home in New York City, surrounded by close family. He was 93 years old.

  • Environmental activists wearing a mask of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and protective suits perform to denounce the Japanese government's decision on Fukushima water, near the Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea

    Grave concerns raised as Japan announces release of radioactive water into the sea

    Originally published: Morning Star on April 2021 (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted Apr 15, 2021)

    JAPAN has come under fire after its government announced today that it would release more than a million metric tonnes of radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean.

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