Geography Archives: Global

The nuclear power industry is currently promoting designs for small modular reactors (SMRs) that will supposedly be cheaper, safer, and faster to build than older nuclear power plants. Bill Gates and Amazon are investing in the technology.

Earth scientists Brian Toon and Alan Robock discuss their latest book on nuclear winter, “Earth in Flames” (Oxford University Press, 2025).

The widespread misery imposed by capitalism demands that we organise hope through collective struggle; only then can we build a future where human dignity supersedes the destructive profit motive.

For decades, the Southern Ocean defied global warming trends – until 2015.

The building of socialism, for a ‘community with a shared future for mankind’ is China’s solution to global crises, and is a major innovation of Marxism in the 21st century, Chinese scholars believe.

In my 25 years as a union organizer and labor educator, my core purpose has been to help working-class people recognize and act on their own power.

Western Marxism is a particular version of Marxist theory developed in–and acceptable to–the capitalist nations of Europe and North America and largely divorced from political action, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY.

Capitalism, Fossil Finance, and the Structural Logic of Ecological Breakdown.

Agribusinesses increasingly shape food policies worldwide. Claiming to best address recent food security concerns, they profit more from innovations in food production, processing, and distribution.

I like very much Rahim’s conclusion: When speaking of the communist future, Marx thought that, as in ancient times, creating maximum wealth would cease to be the aim of society. Wealth itself would no longer be defined, as in bourgeois society, as an accumulation of more and more material goods, but conceived instead as a shared development of the needs, capacities, pleasures, and productive powers of individuals, freely associated.

Michael Hudson: My view is probably in agreement with what the military is said to have discussed with Donald Trump last night and for the last few days. They’ve all told him that the invasion cannot work without an enormous sacrifice, and the United States ever since the Vietnam War, that led to the ending of the draft, no longer has a landed army.

Why Imperialism Is the Greatest Threat to Humanity.

Since capital is globalized under neo-liberalism while labour remains confined to specific countries, a higher rate of accumulation is supposed to require the creation of a more attractive environment for capital compared to other countries; and lower wages constitute one major component of this more attractive environment.

You ever wonder why people who make AI talk about how AI might destroy humanity—but still keep making AI?

People with disabilities are not marginal to society but central to it–and the injustices they face reveal the failures of a world that treats human dignity as subordinate to profit.

Welcome to Marx in Surplus 05. For this entry we step back to 1837 and read a single letter written by a 19-year-old law student to his father.

Google’s AI workers want to cure cancer, not kill for the US and Israeli military. That’s why they are now trying to unionise for the first time ever, writes an employee at DeepMind.

UN report predicts crippling heat waves, polluted air, species extinctions, economic crises.

Marx and Engels did not merely theorise in the abstract. They analysed concrete events, corresponded extensively with revolutionaries and thinkers, and engaged politically through journalism, the First International, and personal networks.

Trump’s strategy envisages the U.S. extricating itself from the neo-liberal regime while forcing the global south to remain entrapped within it.