Geography Archives: Global

  • Climate Crisis (Photo: RedFlag)

    Why the rich are to blame for climate crisis

    Some people, some companies, some decision makers in particular, have known exactly what priceless values they have been sacrificing to continue making unimaginable amounts of money. And I think many of you here today belong to that group of people.

  • Marielle Franco

    Dossier 13: The new intellectual

    These two matters—the battle of ideas and the new intellectual—take up the first two parts of this dossier. The third part enters a brief discussion of our political context and offers a map of our concerns and our research. We look forward to your response to our invitation to a dialogue.

  • Greta Thunberg

    In response to lies and hate, let me make some things clear about my climate strike

    If everyone listened to the scientists and the facts that I constantly refer to—then no one would have to listen to me or any of the other hundreds of thousands of school children on strike for the climate across the world. Then we could all go back to school.

  • Photo- KUNDA DIXIT

    Terrifying assessment of a Himalayan melting

    New report predicts the impact of climate change on Nepal’s mountains may be much worse than we thought.

  • Facebook executive Nathaniel Gleicher is shown during a December 2018 interview with PBS. Screenshot | YouTube

    Facebook’s Troll Hunter in Chief Nathaniel Gleicher tied to Neocon think tank

    While Facebook claims impartiality in its crackdown on “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” the loyalties of the man charged with carrying out that mission. if his resume is any indication, are not with the users.

  • The Unknown Anti-War Comics

    Vintage comics against war

    The next phase of rebellious art, I have thought all this time, belonged to the rise of the Underground Comix of the later 1960s, with one tip of the hat to the campus satire magazines that in some places gave artists like Austin’s Gilbert Shelton a start, and another to Harvey Kurtzman’s failed magazines after Mad, especially Help! (1961-65).

  • Doomsday Clock′ remains at 2 minutes to midnight | News | DW | 24.01 ... Deutsche Welle

    A new abnormal

    Humanity now faces two simultaneous existential threats, either of which would be cause for extreme concern and immediate attention. These major threats—nuclear weapons and climate change—were exacerbated this past year by the increased use of information warfare to undermine democracy around the world, amplifying risk from these and other threats and putting the future of civilization in extraordinary danger.

  • Erik-Wright

    Erik Olin Wright (1947–2019)

    Erik Olin Wright was radicalized in the 1960s and remained a Marxist because his moral compass simply wouldn’t allow him to drift away. With his death, the Left has lost one of its most brilliant intellectuals.

  • Alfredo Jaar, Infinite Cell, 2005.

    What the mountain taught the mouse

    Inequality is sexist. It is also transphobic and racist. This is a reality demonstrated by Oxfam’s recent report on wealth and inequality, and a reality well understood by the people who live it.

  • MLK.Jr

    Make MLK’s teachings part of school curriculum

    Dr Martin Luther King’s writings and speeches “should be a part of the curriculum of public schools,” said Larry Hamm, chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress, based in Newark, New Jersey.

  • Inequality and the ecological transition

    Last month Branko Milanovic published a blog post about the Yellow Vest movement against the fuel tax in France. He was worried–like many analysts–that the uprising proves it will be virtually impossible to roll out the policies necessary to reduce carbon emissions. He’s convinced that people simply won’t accept it.

  • Red-Green Revolution

    Victor Wallis – Red-Green Revolution

    The scale of environmental crisis is absolutely terrifying. So I was very pleased to read Victor Wallis’ new book Red-Green Revolution which aims to both explain capitalism and environmental destruction and offer a clear strategy for building a movement to challenge both.

  • Marisol Escobar, The Family, 1962.

    My hopes lie shattered

    Late last year, U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton went to Miami (USA), where he coined a new–chilling–phrase: troika of tyranny. It echoed former U.S. President George W. Bush’s phrase, axis of evil. Bush’s axis included Iran, Iraq and North Korea.

  • Silvia Federici

    Marx imagined a totally asexual worker

    ​Silvia Federici is one of the most important feminist thinkers of our time–anyone looking for profound analyses of the role of housework, violence against women, or the importance of control over the body in capitalism inevitably encounters her writings.

  • The rise of the student worker

    The student population today is unrecognisable from that of a generation or more ago, writes Matt Myers. And it is central to any socialist project for the future.

  • Interview: Why We Occupied Our General Motors Factory in Oshawa ... Labor Notes

    General Motors’ factories should not be closed

    It’s become something of a shopworn cliché to say that “for every problem, there’s an opportunity.” However, I submit that this adage might well apply to General Motors’ November 26th announcement that it will be eliminating more than 14,000 jobs and closing seven factories worldwide by the end of next year, including four factories in the U.S. and one in Canada.

  • The Roots of Karl Marx's Anti-Colonialism Jacobin

    The roots of Karl Marx’s anti-Colonialism

    Through his relationship with the Chartist radical and labor poet Ernest Jones, Karl Marx came to realize the necessity of opposing slavery and colonialism in ending capitalism.

  • René Mederos, 1959-1969 Decimo aniversario del triumfo de la rebelion Cubana (1969)

    The art of the revolution will be internationalist

    The ideological battle must be fought not only with words but also with the production of images and visuals that propel the work of movements forward.

  • People's Climate March - Wikipedia

    When “green” doesn’t “grow”

    The onslaught of extreme weather and the increasingly stark scientific assessment leave no doubt that we face an ecological and civilizational emergency. But in the year since COP23 in Bonn, Germany, a constant stream of headlines and reports have confirmed that governments are not on track to meet their climate commitments.

  • Living Amidst the Catastrophes of “the Living Contradiction”

    Living amidst the catastrophes of “the Living Contradiction”

    “By its nature,” Marx writes in the climactic passage of a magnificent but very dense section of the Grundrisse, capital “posits a barrier to labor and value-creation in contradiction to its tendency to expand them boundlessly. And in as much as it both posits a barrier specific to itself, and on the other side equally drives over and beyond every barrier, it is the living contradiction.”