Geography Archives: Global

The following text navigates through the trans health articles and books published between 1886 and 1966 which appear to have had the greatest influence on the writing of “The Transsexual Phenomenon”, ultimately posing the question: how did we get here?

NATO’s growing militarism doesn’t just risk widening war, but is deeply implicated in the mounting climate catastrophe, argues Nandita Lal.

The stock market crashed on August 5, in a new “Black Monday”. What caused it? Is the USA on the verge of a new financial crisis? Ben Norton is joined by economist Michael Hudson to discuss the extreme volatility.

Counterfire members attended demonstrations across the country and sent the following reports of the heartening mobilisations against racism and fascism.

Workers in the Global South—from farm workers to scientists—power the world economy but face a yawning wage gap.

CounterSpin interview with Keith McHenry on criminalizing homelessness.

Vladimir Lenin made many valuable contributions to Marxist political economy.

In his lifetime, Karl Marx witnessed the establishment of capitalism as an all-encompassing, global system, and with it the international working class—a force capable of radical social transformation.

A milestone in Du Bois’ political evolution, written as he was leaving the N.A.A.C.P. and starting his career at Atlanta University Du Bois’ increasingly embraced Marx’s analytical criteria, though he remained outside the Communist movement for decades more.

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A series of serious misunderstandings has led to an uninformed outcry in the Christian West over a short scene in the Opening Ceremony at the Paris Olympics, writes Cathy Vogan.

‘Climate change has already caused mass death on a pandemic-like scale’

Many low-income countries (LICs) continue to slip further behind the rest of the world. Meanwhile, people in extreme poverty have been increasing again after decades of decline.

The damage to Florida’s coral reef is irreversible, but that doesn’t mean we can give up fighting for it.

Eric Ruder examines the dialectical method developed and deployed by Karl Marx.

Global carbon dioxide emissions (the main cause of global warming) continue to rise, hitting a new high in 2023.

Multimillionaires around the world have benefited from the inflation year 2023, while the German super-rich alone increased their wealth by 10 percent to more than €2.1 trillion.

This year’s NATO Summit was a show of the West’s commitment to warmongering and its plans to wreak havoc around the world to maintain its dominance.

To say capitalism kills is not hyperbole: it is simply incompatible with continuing life on Earth.