Geography Archives: Global

RON JACOBS welcomes the political lessons for today, about organisation and withdrawal from conflict, made by an erudite and conversational biography.

AI developers, in particular the two industry leaders, OpenAI and Anthropic, have yet to make a profit. 

A philosophy of contradictions.

A lot of contemporary scientific views are essentially dialectical. They don’t use that language.

For far too long environmental issues have been seen as the preserve of the middle classes, but as the recent heatwave shows, climate change impacts us all, and the poor and most vulnerable suffer the most, finds Terina Hine.

A call for Jewish organizations around the world to publicly endorse the BDS movement and support coordinated nonviolent pressure to end Israeli impunity.

This post debunks the hype surrounding the large language model (LLM) generative AI systems (later to become multimodal AI systems) produced by leading tech companies, in particular ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), Gemini (Google), Grok (xAI), Copilot (Microsoft), and Llama (Meta). 

The beauty of Marx’s analysis in ecological terms is that he provided the only theoretical approach that connected society and nature.

While popular energy can fill streets and win elections, social power is the patient, organised capacity of the working class to transform society and make dignity the common sense of the age.

This post starts a multipart series aimed at cutting through the fog of AI hype in order to help us understand some of the real dangers we face from AI use and highlight hopeful avenues of effective resistance. It offers an overview of my argument. Following posts will take up the relevant issues in more detail.

The dictionary tells us ‘pragmatic’ means: ‘dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations’.

Ecological science turned toward struggle must be intimately associated with the class struggle.

A recent report by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) has warned that we are entering an era of global water bankruptcy.

Urgent action is required to stem the growing tide of misogynistic abuse and sexual violence against women, writes Terina Hine.

As extreme heat intensifies across Indian cities, access to cooling, shade, and climate protection is becoming deeply unequal, exposing how urban heat disproportionately burdens low-income communities and informal workers.

It is not surprising that the only economies in modern times that have been characterized by full employment have been the Soviet Union and the socialist economies of eastern Europe.

Far from being oxymorons, the two concepts form a unique paradox.

Electricity is humanity’s most versatile form of energy and will be the 21st century’s energy source of choice. It is astonishing and bewildering that a president who considers himself the epitome of business savvy is deliberately kneecapping the ability of the U.S. to compete in the energy technologies and enterprises fundamental to surviving and thriving in the 21st century.

Google is one of the so-called ‘hyperscalers’, the mega tech companies that are ploughing huge of amounts of funds into AI, hoping and expecting it to lead to a sharp rise in profits down the road.

A new exhibition struggles to explain how the Marxist anti-imperialist became one of the most influential artists of all time, further commercialising her legacy.