Geography Archives: Global

We have to get back the kind of public intellectuals, real left intellectuals, Marxist intellectuals who are not just academics.

Behind the polished story of Western progress lies another history: steam power, modern banking, and industrial capitalism were not born of peaceful innovation but paid for with the blood of enslaved people.

Species that have evolved in stable environments, shaped by millions of years of constancy, may be the first to suffer.

IN June 2026, The Nature Index, one of the most well-regarded barometers of high-quality research, issued the annual Research Leaders rankings.

Meteorologists’ report shows record and near-record temperatures across the globe in 2025.

Oman’s lesser-known communist separatist guerrilla. Today in 1965, Dhofar’s independence movement took up armed struggle.

I found, in studying Epicurus more deeply, that the central question is really the question of human freedom.

A lot of social media users have been wondering why their feeds have been filled with far-right, often racist, content. For me, it started with more conservative media outlets and Republican politicians in my feed.

AI as a broad technology is not our problem any more or less than are computers, the internet, or email. Rather, the problem is with the class interests shaping its development.

From taxi, bus and IT workers to communities fighting the spread of Data centers, it’s right to rebel against the use and misuse of any new technology by elites. Owen McCormack argues that these campaigns can be part of a more general revolt against capitalism with profound implications for socialists and revolutionaries in the coming years.

On Forms, Relations, and Social Powers.

The Tsinghua economist welcomes China’s new offshore trust tax rules and reflects on the stark disparity between taxes on capital and labour.

Our minds have been carefully groomed to accept the imperial status quo as normal and healthy, and to see every failure of the system as a failure of the individual.

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).