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Helena Sheehan – ‘Science and Technology Studies: A Marxist Narrative’
The author of several books, including the definitive study ‘Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History’, Professor Sheehan traces the historical entanglements of Science and Technology Studies with Marxist thought, as well as her own biography as a scholar and activist.
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What role does the military play in climate change?
A gaping hole in the COP26 official agenda was the oversized role of the military industrial complex in environmental devastation. The US is a global leader on this front with the Pentagon being a bigger polluter than 140 countries combined.
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COP26: greenwashing and Plutocratic misadventures
COP26 reaffirmed what has been obvious from the beginning: the Northern colonial and capitalist states most responsible for creating the climate crisis are unwilling to place people before profits in order to address the planet’s looming ecological collapse and humanitarian catastrophe.
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Philosophers with no clothes: A Review of ‘The War Against Marxism’
Tony McKenna’s new book is an important defence of Marxism, against thinkers who have confused and obscured its revolutionary core, argues Chris Nineham
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WTO finished without TRIPS waiver
The World Trade Organization (WTO) will soon decide on a conditional temporary waiver of Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).
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‘Moderna is trying to turn this people’s vaccine into a rich people’s vaccine’
CounterSpin interview with Peter Maybarduk on NIH/Moderna patent
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Media’s anti-‘woke’ mania moves social justice to the fringe
“Woke” is the label the aggrieved conservative suburbanite puts on the indignity of having to call their Starbucks barista “they” and finding Ibram X. Kendi on their child’s school reading list.
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In the name of saving the climate, they will Uberise the farmlands: The Forty-Sixth Newsletter (2021)
The organisers of COP26 designated themes for many of the days during the conference, such as energy, finance, and transport. There was no day set aside for a discussion of agriculture; instead, it was bundled into ‘Nature Day’ on 6 November, during which the main topic was deforestation.
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The belly of the beast
We need to abandon Petropolis to prevent climate breakdown–and start building the ecomegacities of the future.
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Are we really Luddites just for logging off? We can be wiser about boundaries for technology
We can be wiser about boundaries for technology.
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The eco-politics of the sublime: nature, environmentalism, and Covid-ecology
A conception of the sublime, liberated from its racist, sexist and domineering classic form, should form a part of any ecosocialist imaginary.
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Defund the global climate wall
To create a safer, more sustainable world, the United States needs to divert border money toward climate action.
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Opening this article voids warranty
Repair, as an act of reclaiming technology, is ongoing in the Global North and South with complementary driving forces and problems.
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As we run out of time to save the planet, COP26 ends in ‘utter betrayal’
Following two weeks of negotiations, the UN climate summit COP26 concluded with the Glasgow Climate Pact.
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Climate conspiracy theorists say it is suspicious that every single research paper says the EXACT same thing
A group of climate change conspiracy theorists has uncovered a set of strange patterns and repeated terminology in research papers which they say is highly suspicious.
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Thirteen theses of Marxism-Feminism
The theses are a working tool and an insurance at the same time of what we are and where we want to go to, while both the path and the goal are open for joint discussion and thus for change.
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COP26 was a failure. But the people’s alternative can still be a success
Has COP26, which has wound up in Glasgow after two weeks of political showboating and grassroots protest, been a failure?
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Titans
Tracing the rise and the politics of asset manager capitalism.
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Marx on the metabolic rift: How capitalism cuts us off from nature
Marx and Engels were witnesses to and keen analysts of the environmental problems inherent in nineteenth-century capitalism. They wrote about the depletion of coal reserves, the destruction of forests, and, especially, about diminishing soil fertility, which Foster recognizes was the most pressing issue of the day.
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Return of the Dialectics of Nature: Marxian Ecology and the Struggle for Freedom as Necessity —A Discussion of the Deutscher Prize 2020
This session is a discussion of the Deutscher Prize Winning Book 2020 ‘The Return of the Dialectics of Nature: Marxian Ecology and the Struggle for Freedom as Necessity’ – John Bellamy Foster