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How to do a conjunctural analysis: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2024)
Unlike mainstream media, which all too often distorts the truth and lies by omission–as we see with reporting on Palestine, where the death toll has reached 114,000–conjunctural analyses help us understand the deeper forces at play and provide political and social movements with the materials to intervene to shape the future.
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Imperialism and Africa
ROAPE’s Ray Bush introduces Volume 51 Issue 181 of the journal, a special 50th anniversary issue on imperialism and Africa.
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U.S. boots on the ground in Israel demolishes international law
The U.S. decision to send troops to Israel has upended the focus of attention for all those, globally, who have attempted to stop both the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and the determination of the current Israeli government to create Eretz Israel: a territory incorporating–at minimum–all Palestinian land now occupied by Israel, but also likely southern Lebanon and parts of Jordan and Syria as well.
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Bayer’s “backward” claim: A bid to reap control of Indian agriculture
Bayer’s vision for agriculture in India includes prioritising and fast-tracking approvals for its new products, introducing genetically modified (GM) food crops, addressing labour shortages (for weeding) by increasingly focusing on herbicides and developing herbicides for specific crops like paddy, wheat, sugarcane and maize.
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Revealed: The Israeli spies writing America’s news
One year after Oct. 7 attacks, Netanyahu is on a winning streak.” So reads the title of a recent Axios article describing the Israeli prime minister riding on an unbeatable wave of triumphs.
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U.S. Pacific Fleet commander visits Sri Lanka to cement ties with new president
Admiral Steve Koehler, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, visited Sri Lanka on October 10 in the wake of the election of Anura Dissanayake, leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and its electoral front, the National People’s Power (NPP).
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Extinction Rebellion tells insurance firms to cut ties with fossil fuels or face protests
EXTINCTION REBELLION (XR) issued an ultimatum to insurance bosses today as the climate group gears up for a week of protests across the country.
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Contesting the idea of progress: Labor’s AI challenge
The material changes ushered in under the aegis of artificial intelligence (AI) are not leading to the abolition of human labor but rather its degradation. This is typical of the history of mechanization since the dawn of the industrial revolution. Instead of relieving people of work, employers have deployed technology—even the mere idea of technology—to […]
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What is the ‘Generals’ plan’? Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza, explained
The ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza as part of the so-called “Generals’ Plan” isn’t new, but the only thing standing in its way is the will of 200,000 Palestinians to stay in the north and refuse displacement.
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Han Kang’s Nobel Prize Award is a cry for Palestine
A brilliant, powerful writer, but clearly the literary dark horse in the race, Han Kang’s unexpected award is the closest the Nobel committee could get to acknowledging the Palestinian genocide.
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As U.S. puppets the Australian political class rejects international humanitarian law
The Australian Labor-Coalition political class has ignored, and by its actions rejected, UN decisions that Australia is legally obliged to stop its support for the Israeli settler-colonial project, to actively seek to stop Israel’s racial segregation and apartheid, and to cease military, diplomatic, economic, commercial, financial, investment, trade, political, and legal relations with the Israeli occupation.
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Could the Sahel Alliance divide Africa?
Africa continues to rise up and delivers surprises. In recent days, several African leaders have made diplomatic trips that are reshaping the geometries of the international chessboard. The SAHEL Alliance states are charting a watershed that could divide Africa in two and determine a new historical course for the entire continent.
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Israel is turning northern Gaza into a killing cage
With international media coverage shifting to potential war with Iran, Israel is intensifying its campaign to obliterate the Palestinians of Gaza.
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Health and safety: Amazon fails to deliver
“We are going to be Earth’s best employer and Earth’s safest place to work.” (Jeff Bezos, April 2021)
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West Coast climate activists battle the false ‘solution’ of forest biomass
A growing grassroots movement against forest biomass is fighting to keep the West’s trees from being burned for energy during the transition away from fossil fuels.
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Finnish capitalism at a tipping point: Resisting racism, austerity, and militarism
The Finns Party leader and current finance minister and deputy prime minister, Riikka Purra, has previously made a litany of racist and violent statements against immigrants (e.g., using the Finnish equivalent of the ‘n-word’) (Teivainen, 2023).
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President Petro is not alone: Colombia marches against coup attempt
Colombians took to the streets to protest against the coup d’état that the Colombian right wing is attempting to carry out against President Gustavo Petro.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner: Gaza like Japan after U.S. atomic bombs
Toshiyuki Mimaki, co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese organization honored with the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize for its anti-nuclear activism, drew comparisons between the plight of children in Gaza and those impacted by the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
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‘We are being annihilated’: Palestinians in Gaza’s Jabalia plead for help on social media
Social media users in northern Gaza say that Israel is deliberately killing civilians in Jabalia and the situation is ‘straight out of a horror movie’
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The Italian workers occupying against climate crisis
Faced with the threat of mass redundancies, GKN automotive workers in Florence occupied their factory to save jobs and build green technology. Their actions can be an inspiration to British workers fighting similar fights.