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Mali’s government issues arrest warrant for Canadian mining company CEO
On December 2, 2024, Mali’s popular anti-imperialist government issued an arrest warrant for Canadian mining company Barrick Gold’s CEO, Mark Bristow, a South African national who fought for the apartheid army in the 1970s.
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Bayer’s “backward” claim: A bid to reap control of Indian agriculture
Bayer’s vision for agriculture in India includes prioritising and fast-tracking approvals for its new products, introducing genetically modified (GM) food crops, addressing labour shortages (for weeding) by increasingly focusing on herbicides and developing herbicides for specific crops like paddy, wheat, sugarcane and maize.
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Vulture Fund Elliott chosen as winner of CITGO court-mandated auction
The $7.3 billion offer from the investment fund falls significantly short of the Venezuelan refiner’s valuation.
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South America faces one of the worst waves of wildfires in recent years
Most of the fires have been caused by deliberate burning of lands and improper disposal of highly polluting waste.
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Burkina Faso nationalizes UK goldmines
Burkina Faso will nationalize two gold mines at a cost of about US$80 million.
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Game meat for hungry communities in Southern Africa
As hunger threatens millions in southern Africa, some of the governments in these wildlife-rich countries have started harvesting game such as elephants, hippopotamuses, buffaloes, zebras, and others to feed their citizens.
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Corporate or community-led? Africa’s agricultural future at a crossroads
The post-Malabo process to determine the next decade of agricultural policy has so far been characterised by outside influence and exclusivity.
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Decolonisation, dependency and disengagement—the challenge of Ireland’s degrowth transition
Advancing degrowth in Ireland requires an understanding of, and a reckoning with, the economic legacy of its colonised past, CUSP researcher Seán Fearon writes. A post-colonial economy within planetary boundaries must break with relationships of dependency and structures of unsustainability.
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The profile of environmental collapse–forest fires tell the story
Human history is rarely dull but we are living through a period in which pivotal change is taking place.
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The world is farming more seafood than it catches. Is that a good thing?
Both aquaculture and fisheries have environmental and climate impacts—and they overlap more than you’d think.
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Two years to save the world
The following is the transcript of a speech delivered by UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell on 10 April 2024 at Chatham House in London, England.
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A lone Dayak community’s last stand against palm oil
The Dayak peoples of Borneo have been fiercely resisting the encroachment of palm oil plantations on their ancestral lands for many decades.
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A closer look at America’s water crisis
New Mexico’s unprotected waters demonstrate how pollution, drought, and the climate crisis converge to harm communities.
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Marxism and ecology: Does the answer ‘lie in the soil?’
Marx and Engels’ concern with soil provides a focus for understanding the relationship between capitalism and the environment, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY.
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Whether Bird Flu Is on the March Misses the Point
The New England Journal of Medicine reported the case of a Texan farmworker infected with HPAI H5N1. He suffered the hemorrhaging in the eye the cows he tended expressed.
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On the edge of the ‘climate abyss’
With scientists warning of imminent catastrophe, it is time to stop expecting our rulers to change course by persuasion; only militant anti-capitalism will work, argues John Clarke.
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Menace on the menu: The financialisation of farmland and the war on food and farming
Between 2008 and 2022, land prices nearly doubled throughout the world and tripled in Central-Eastern Europe.
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Eco-socialism to fight climate change
With Lima failing to tackle critical issues on global warming, Bolivia outlines socialist project to save the planet.
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Rural labour in the Modi years
The two phenomena, a reduction in real wages and a reduction in employment opportunities, in fact go together.
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Canada faces another grim wildfire season
The wildfires in Canada kept burning all winter, and a new season is set to be catastrophic, as climate feedback loops accelerate disaster, warns John Clarke.