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In major move, Global Coalition pushes for moratorium on solar geoengineering
An international “coalition” of scientists and governance scholars launched an initiative on January 17 that calls for a moratorium on the study and development of a controversial climate-change mitigation strategy known as solar geoengineering.
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Deceased Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu Faces Zionist Reputational Firing Squad
Zionist organizations in the United States and around the world will continue to feel entitled to call anyone they wish a racist, a bigot, and an antisemite. Their successes empower them and, since there is no one who stands up to them, there is no reason for them to stop.
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All Things Co-op: Lessons from Venezuela’s Social Economy
They speak about the creation of the social economy, the experience of Chavismo in Venezuela, and the differing goals of some cooperatives and traditional trade unions. Lebowitz highlights the importance of self-actualization through protagonism and how the most successful of these models focused on solidarity over self-interest.
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Defying U.S. Caesar Act, China admits Syria into BRI
Syria’s entry into China’s Belt and Road Initiative is to support its economic integration into West Asia and fortify its post-conflict recovery.
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The missing chapter in Malcolm X’s Biography they hid from you
The missing chapter in Malcolm X’s biography must be fervently resurrected.
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Don’t underestimate how badly the powerful need control of online speech
Seems like almost every day now the mass media are blaring about the need for speech on the internet to be controlled or restricted in some way. Today they’re running stories about Joe Rogan and Covid misinformation; tomorrow it will be something else.
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Damning imperialism: Marx’s writing on China
Working for the ‘New York Daily Tribune’, Marx excoriated the British empire’s opium trade that brought China under its influence with a staggering human cost, writes NICK MATTHEWS.
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Reformist DAs spark Murdoch empire freakout
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who took office January 1, wasted no time getting in the headlines, telling his prosecutors (New York Times, 1/6/22) that they should seek “jail or prison time only for the most serious offenses—including murder, sexual assault and economic crimes involving vast sums of money.”
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As Omicron rages, teachers and students fight for safety measures in Chicago and elsewhere
Chicago Teachers Union members voted by 77 percent on January 4 to go fully remote until effective Covid mitigations to protect educators and students were approved by members and enacted, or until the current Covid surge subsided.
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What does it have to do with Black folks?
The worldview of liberals usually ends at the borders of the U.S. settler-state until they are mobilized by the oligarchy to provide ideological cover for the latest imperialist intrigue. This is as true for the liberal Black “misleadership” class as it is for Euro-American liberals.
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Unions allege petrol bombs, intimidation as strike intensifies at South African Dairy giant
Amid threats and intimidation, the workers’ action at Clover has been strengthened by worker solidarity as well as the increasing support of civil society for its boycott campaign.
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Financial Markets under capitalism
One of the most important arguments advanced by John Maynard Keynes, the renowned economist, was that the operation of financial markets under capitalism is deeply flawed.
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A Programme for a future society that we will build in the present: The Second Newsletter (2022)
In October 2021, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released a report that received barely any attention: ‘the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021’, notably subtitled Unmasking disparities by ethnicity, caste, and gender.
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How Education International is pushing teachers’ unions into the 4th Industrial Revolution
Why have teachers’ unions been pushing ed-tech that is driving schools into the 4IR? Look no further than Education International, a global federation tied to UNESCO & the WEF that dominates most teachers’ unions in the U.S. and beyond.
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Why I’m hoping Corbyn launches a new party
After the damage Starmer has done, the left would need decades to rebuild from within the party – and we don’t have decades. The crises facing working people are already urgent, argues CHELLEY RYAN
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No letup in economic and social decline
Economic and social conditions have been worsening for decades at home and abroad, especially in the context of the neoliberal antisocial offensive which was launched more than 40 years ago by the international financial oligarchy. But they have been getting even worse in recent years and over the past two years in particular.
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Why the Anglosphere is united in an anti-China front
Part five in an eight part series investigating the crisis in Canada-China relations
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Labor power and wages after women’s labor market incorporation in Argentina
In the past years, there has been a very much welcomed flourishing of Marxist Feminist analyses.
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Nepal’s largest hydropower station starts operation
With the completion and operation of the Upper Tamakoshi hydroelectric power station, Nepal has not only resolved a long-standing problem of intermittent power shortages, but also realized the transformation from an electricity importer to an exporter.
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Putin draws the line for colour revolutions
This must be a rare page in American diplomatic history that a US Secretary of State has been literally off his rocker. Antony Blinken’s outbursts on the events in Kazakhstan were not only boorish but also illogical.