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As Chávez said, ‘let’s not change the climate, let’s change the system!’: a conversation with Max Ajl
An anti-imperialist approach to global warming in the context of COP26.
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COP26: why advanced countries must proportionately make by far the biggest cuts in carbon emissions–factual briefing
Fortunately, the scientific data produced by the IPCC makes it possible to calculate the real changes which are required to combat climate change.
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Review: ‘The Great Climate Cop Out’
The 25 page pamphlet lays out concisely and effectively why we cannot look to heads of government under a capitalist system to come to an agreement on phasing out fossils fuels, cutting emissions and creating a more sustainable economy.
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Bleak prospects for least developed countries
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: “The outlook for LDCs is grim”. The latest United Nations (UN) assessment of prospects for the least developed countries (LDCs) notes recent setbacks without finding any silver lining on the horizon.
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Review: The Alienation of Love
More than just bear it, capitalists today demand we love our exploitation. Sara Bennett reviews a new book on the new emotional demands on workers, arguing it aid us in our understanding of modern class relations.
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The New Dangerous Class? The PMC and Virtue Hoarding
In a review of a new book about the ‘Professional Managerial Class’, James Foley says middle-class activists dress up conformity as a war on cultural backwardness.
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Who owns our data?
We need a model of ownership that recognizes the collective interest we have in how personal data is used, avoids the costs of private exploitation by individual firms, and does not slip into authoritarian forms of state control.
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Book Review: ‘A People’s Green New Deal’
In this book Ajl covers most of the big questions facing rational, ecosocialist design: nationalization vs localism, modernization vs degrowth, techno-scientific solutions vs indigenous knowledge.
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Coming Climate Summit must take due care of the woes of developing Countries
Discussions in the forthcoming COP26 should focus on democratisation of climate finance that enables procedural climate justice.
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The coral atoll and the iPhone
I think Matt Cooper takes a too narrow definition of “metabolism” as a rather dull process of material exchange that occurs within a cell. From my reading, as a non-specialist, Marx was using the term in a broader sense as the material and ultimately purposeless means by which complex order emerges from disordered matter.
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Of course they would: on Kim Stanley Robinson’s ‘The Ministry for the Future’
Everything is always different, yes, fine–but everything is really different now.
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Women’s work in the first civilisations
The work performed by women, particularly work in the household and in the health sector, has received much attention in feminist and left-wing debate in recent years.
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Systemic crisis further exposes inequalities: poor women’s Global struggle against hunger and pandemic
Without a doubt, the global pandemic of COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on the economy and, consequently, on the population.
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Netflix launches a new collection of Palestinian movies
Pro-Israel groups have attacked the move because many of the directors support BDS.
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Record numbers of workers are quitting and striking
The seriousness of the situation was confirmed by the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report showing that a record 2.9 percent of the workforce quit their jobs in August, which is equivalent to 4.3 million resignations.
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A radical #greennewdeal is the only way to stop climate catastrophe – Jeremy Corbyn exclusive on #Cop26
When COP26 is held in Glasgow, the world will be watching to see if an international agreement is reached on the scale and speed of co-ordinated action that is needed to tackle the deepening climate catastrophe.
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If all refugees lived in one place, it would be the 17th most populous country in the world: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2021)
On 5 October, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a historic, non-legally binding resolution that ‘recognises the right to a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment as a human right that is important for the enjoyment of human rights’.
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A Discussion with John Bellamy Foster – Presenting the 2021 transform! yearbook
A discussion with John Bellamy Foster, one of the world’s leading figures in Marxian ecological theory.
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Cinematic time and the accumulation of ecosocial crises
In his essay, researcher and filmmaker Alejandro Pedregal traces back to the early days of cinema. The new art form emerged during a capitalist era which had fundamentally altered our perception of time.
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‘Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity’
World Health Organization urges ‘rapid and ambitious action to halt and reverse the climate crisis’.