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Activists reject escalation in Ukraine, even when it’s unpopular
An event hosted at New York City’s People’s Forum featured seven activists who spoke out against U.S. and NATO involvement in the war in Ukraine and called for negotiations and peace.
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Open veins of Africa bleeding heavily
The ongoing plunder of Africa’s natural resources drained by capital flight is holding it back yet again. More African nations face protracted recessions amid mounting debt distress, rubbing salt into deep wounds from the past.
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“South Africa’s ‘Just’ transition climate deal with the west is a betrayal of the working class”
South Africa is set to implement an $8.5bn plan funded by western countries to transition from coal-based energy to renewables. The country’s biggest union NUMSA has warned this plan will only intensify privatization while burdening South Africans with debt and poverty.
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Greenland is worse than ever, much worse
A new study finds Greenland’s ice sheet thinning much further into the ice sheet core than previously thought, 100 miles inland. (Source: S. Khan, et al, Extensive Inland Thinning and Speed-Up of North-East Greenland Stream, Nature, November 9, 2022)
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Is the Russia-Ukraine war at a crossroads?
In a new 25-minute live broadcast devoted to the war, Iran’s Press TV showcases key issues from this week’s developments on the front lines, including the latest bombardments of the Zaporozhie nuclear power station and the missiles which fell on Polish territory, threatening to bring in NATO as full co-belligerents.
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Maligned in Western Media, Donbass forces are defending their future from Ukrainian shelling and fascism
America is widely understood to be a key instigator behind conflict in Ukraine that has pitted brother against brother.
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Popular power legislation to be revised as communards demand more protagonism
Commune spokespeople urged the Maduro government to boost grassroots efforts against “the metabolism of capital.”
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China is building a truly ecological civilisation
While the inertia of the market-led nations gives us terrifying forecasts for the planet, state socialism in the east has delivered on wind and solar energy, green infrastructure, electric vehicles, reforestation and carbon reduction, reports CARLOS MARTINEZ.
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Are you ok? The lives of young trans Texans
In Jesse Friedin’s photos, viewers glimpse the bravery of transgender youth and the power of unconditional family support.
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In a soybean game dominated by capital, no one wins
China was once the world’s highest producer of soybeans, accounting for about 90% of the total. Currently, 60 percent of global soybean exports are destined for the Chinese market.
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Towards a just transition: breaking with the existing order
The action proposed by world leaders, their advisors, and corporate lobbyists at the climate talks (COP27) in Egypt are neoliberal, market-based, and focused on preserving a racist and capitalist global order. Introducing a collection of papers on the climate emergency in North Africa, Hamza Hamouchene, Ouafa Haddioui and Katie Sandwell denounce mainstream and top-down solutions for an environmental crisis engulfing the region, and continent.
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The Polish missile incident was a close brush with nuclear annihilation
The Polish Missile Incident Was a Close Brush with Nuclear Annihilation.
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Social Democracy will not save us
The author makes the case that liberalism is a dead end and that socialism is the only tool for Black liberation.
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COP27: Corporate courts versus developing world
As rich countries move away from dispute-settlement mechanisms that give corporations power to block environmental protections, Manuel Pérez-Rocha says they keep imposing them on developing countries through trade pacts.
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The outflow of finance from the periphery
In the current calendar year an estimated $200 billion has already flown out of India which amounts to a third of India’s exchange reserves.
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Those who struggle to change the world know it well: The Forty-Sixth Newsletter (2022)
In 1845, Karl Marx jotted down some notes for The German Ideology, a book that he wrote with his close friend Friedrich Engels. Engels found these notes in 1888, five years after Marx’s death, and published them under the title Theses on Feuerbach. The eleventh thesis is the most famous: ‘philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it’.
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Cop27: The dirty secret Europe is hiding at the climate summit
Grand declarations at Cop27 on tackling the climate emergency are sabotaged by a treaty from the 1990s that sees European nations held to ransom by the energy companies.
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Another Ukrainian missile stunt
The 5V55K is an old Soviet produced missile (1978/82) for the S-300 air defense system that the Ukraine is using against Russian cruise missiles.
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The Communist Party is the only force capable of challenging ultra-nationalism in Israeli society
The collapse of the “Zionist Left” during Israel’s most recent elections leaves Hadash and the Communist Party as the only force able to stand against the rise of ultra-nationalism.
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Hawai’i—the very first U.S. regime change
Illegitimate overthrow of Polynesian Queen Lili’uokalani in 1893 marked beginning of more than a century of American regime-change operations.