Geography Archives: Global

What if it’s not us who are sick, asks Rod Tweedy, but a system at odds with who we are as social beings?

In the last decade xenophobic tropes intended to stoke fear and loathing of Chinese have accelerated ominously in the American mainstream media as many public officials of both parties label China as our “adversary” or even our “enemy.”

“We want peace, we want freedom,” Palestinian UN Ambassador, Riyad Mansour, told the General Assembly before the vote. “A yes vote is a vote for Palestinian existence; it is not against any state… It is an investment in peace.”

Tenant Unionism, Public Health, and Radical Science in Connecticut.

“I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the Global South,” one expert said.

Modern liberalism was developed in response to the Bolshevik Revolution during the capitalist crisis of the inter-war period, as a way of resolving that crisis, and other similar crises that could arise in future, without transcending capitalism.

Since the global financial crisis, big banks have taken a backseat, and asset managers have become the—often self-appointed—new experts and administrators of capitalism.

The Palestinian journalists covering the Israeli onslaught on Gaza and the suffering of the Palestinian people are rewarded with the Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom prize.

In general, the discussion around diet today is a monotonous sermon.

The agents of such a holistic revolution to save Mother Earth are not simply the working class in a traditional economic sense, but also the ‘ecological proletariat’, a dedicated army of an ecologically conscious working class, writes Rana Mitra.

The emergence of a new generation of antiracist activists and theorists seeking to advance an anticapitalist agenda creates a new vantage point of reexamining how racism relates to the logic of capital. This essay explores sources in the work of Marx, twentieth century Marxists, and Frantz Fanon that can provide direction for overcoming the binary of class and race.

This is truly a new political fact: particularly on the issue of war, but not only, the 20-year-olds are coming back on the scene.

The chatbot revolution began in 2022 with OpenAI’s introduction of ChatGPT.

The Arctic region is warming at twice the global rate, leading to rapid melting of ice–some have even predicted ice-free summers by year 2034.

On 19 April, tens of thousands of young and oppressed as well as working class people more broadly will once again hit the streets for the next global climate strike with actions expected on all continents.

Since the end of WW2, the imperialist bloc (IC) annually got around 1% of their GDP through the transfer of surplus value in international trade from the rest of the major ‘developing’ economies (DC) in the G20; while the latter lost about 1% of their GDP in surplus value transferred to the imperialist bloc. And these ratios were rising.

Agribusiness assaults on tropical forests are driving the emergence of new diseases and epidemics.

How Marxists should approach the critique of Martin Heidegger.

In the last year, the rapid uptake of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT, Dall-E, and Stable Diffusion has led to countless public discussions about the ethics and regulation of AI.

Vulture Capitalism demolishes the idea of the ‘free market’ in the corporate age, but has limitations in its analysis of capitalism and how to challenge it, argues Dominic Alexander.