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Deadly hazards of capitalist profit system
The beginning of July saw the hottest days on record globally.
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The Marxist theory of the state: An introduction
Our understanding of the state lies at the heart of our struggle to create a new society and fundamentally eliminate the oppression, exploitation, war, and environmental destruction characteristic of capitalism.
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World’s richest added $852 billion to their fortunes in first half of 2023
Each member of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index made an average of over $14 million per day over the last six months—even as 47 percent of the world’s population barely survived on $6.25 a day.
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Planet Earth is ‘quite sick’: 7 of 8 boundaries for safe and just world already breached, study says
“Nothing less than a just global transformation… is required to ensure human well-being,” researchers wrote.
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Dossier no. 66: The world needs a new socialist development theory
Across the world, evidence of human misery is increasingly easy to find. The data collected and reported by international agencies is stunning. Billions of people around the planet lack access to adequate education, healthcare, food, and shelter, as well as information and culture.
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Debtors of the world, unite!
Jayati Ghosh speaks about the growing debt crisis in the global south, the IMF’s never-ending affinity for austerity and the need to confront the power of financial capital.
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Charter Schools fail and close every week
Free-market Accountability Equals Failed Bankrupt Project
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Levy del Águila Marchena: ‘Communism, Political Power and Personal Freedom in Marx’
Marx diagnosed the oppression of the working class, the alienation of workers from their labor, as well as the alienation of all human beings living within capitalism from their own authentic selves, and proposed that it was objectively possible that emancipation, true liberation, would come one day.
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Replacing the capitalist dream of AI-driven profits
The question we should be asking isn’t whether AI can replace humans. It should be: why are some humans so intent on replacing the jobs that the rest of us hold, with AI?
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Lessons in freedom: Agroecology, localization and food sovereignty
Farmers from across the Americas are working together to envision a new food system based on food sovereignty and political justice.
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Global warming and water privatization
Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou recently declared a state of emergency in the capital, Montevideo, due to water shortages.
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The idea of degrowth communism was Marx’s last breakthrough—and perhaps most important
Even if Japanese Marxist Kohei Saito had not written Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism, the left today would still need to take the idea of degrowth seriously. This is because, economist and anthropologist Jason Hickel explains, “while it’s possible to transition to 100 percent renewable energy, we cannot do it fast enough to stay under 1.5°C or 2°C if we continue to grow the global economy at existing rates.”
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Learning from David Graeber
We ask a number of activists and academics to tell us what David Graeber’s work meant to them and the salient message it still carries today.
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Europe – fastest warming continent in world since 1980s, says WMO
Temperatures over Europe have warmed significantly over the 1991-2021 period, at an average rate of about +0.5 °C per decade, making it the fastest warming region of all the WMO Regions
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The emergence of a new non-alignment: The Twenty-Fourth Newsletter
Governments that had long been pliant to the Triad’s wishes, such as the administrations of Narendra Modi in India and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Türkiye (despite the toxicity of their own regimes), are no longer as reliable.
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Writer Elizabeth Gilbert faces backlash over book with plot in Russia
Elizabeth Gilbert decides to postpone book publication after “The Snow Forest” receives backlash for being set in Russia, a decision which brings forth a different kind of backlash.
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Is the Planet a factory?
The 2019 Global Climate Strike—in which more than 6 million people from 150 countries partook—is a misnomer.
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Modern supply-side economics and the New Washington Consensus
Last month, the U.S. National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, outlined the international economic policy of the U.S. administration. This was a pivotal speech, because Sullivan explained what is called the New Washington Consensus on U.S. foreign policy.
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From net zero to glyphosate: Agritech’s greenwashed corporate power grab
Big agribusiness and ‘philanthropic’ foundations position themselves as the saviours of humanity due to their much-promoted plans to ‘feed the world’ with ‘precision’ farming’, ‘data-driven’ agriculture and ‘sustainable’ production.
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Ex-CIA advisor predicts date when U.S. dollar hegemony will collapse
The collective push to replace the U.S. dollar as the world reserve currency has much to do with Washington’s “weaponization of the dollar through the use of sanctions.”