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From definitions to solutions: Can local food systems sustainably deliver fair rewards for farmers and access to quality food for all?
Rich Kipling, the SFT’s Senior Research Advisor, takes an in-depth look at how we can work towards flourishing local food systems that build communities, increase food security for all, and provide a fair return to farmers and growers.
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Climate activists serving combined 41 years of jail time granted mass appeal hearing
What’s at stake in this hearing is not just the freedom of some courageous individuals: it’s the credibility of the British legal system and the lifeblood of democracy itself.
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Israel’s chemical weapons stockpile is a global threat, Iran warns
Israel is one of only four countries in the world that refuse to ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention. It has also been accused of using banned substances against civilians in Gaza and Lebanon.
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Dilemmas
We are experiencing times of global transition. Where we have been is self-evident. Where the world is headed remains obscure.
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Expel Israel from UN
The genocide—the ongoing Holocaust in Gaza—and who stands in clear opposition to that—is the defining moment today for anyone with a moral conscience.
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“Humanitarian Intervention” in Sierra Leone that was heralded as a model in Western media was really another horror show
Documentary made by Cinema Libre Studio founder Philippe Diaz punctures Western narrative and shows weakness and corruption of UN.
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You need hands: Engels and human evolution
Engels applied the logic of materialist dialectics to the problem of human evolution with important, though rarely acknowledged, results argues Dominic Alexander.
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Anti-Zionist Israeli MP: ‘I will never surrender’
Ofer Cassif—currently suspended from the Knesset for opposing genocide in Gaza—discusses Israel’s descent into fascism, building the movement that can defeat Netanyahu, and why he will never give up the fight for Palestinian freedom.
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“Marx’s Ethical Vision” – Book Review
There is much to say on behalf of Vanessa Christina Wills’ Marx’s Ethical Vision, which not only advances Marxist scholarship but takes a strong, well-founded position regarding some of the most vexing and significant questions confronting anyone who would grasp his philosophical thought.
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COP-out 29
The main issue was how much would the rich countries hand over to the poor countries to pay for the measures to mitigate global warming and handle the damage caused by rising ‘greenhouse gas’ emissions.
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Canada Post strikers are fighting for more than postal workers
The current strike by 55,000 Canada Post workers is about more than postal workers.
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Communist Party Marxist Kenya charts a new way forward for a “for a truly independent socialist Kenya”
In the second congress of the CPM-K, delegates called for the continuation of the National Democratic Revolution and asserted that socialism is the only path forward.
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Environment: The future of humanity hangs in the balance
‘We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster’, scientists conclude. Donkeys: feral pests or nature’s saviours? Climate change threatens global food security and farmers’ incomes.
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Why these new Russian missiles are real game changers
In response to a U.S. decision to arrange for ballistic missile attacks from Ukraine into Russia, the great magician and President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin pull a rabbit from his hat.
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A defining moment in the Ukraine war
The Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a statement on Thursday regarding the two attacks by Western long-range weapons on Russian territory on November 19 and 21 and Moscow’s reactive strike on a facility within Ukraine’s defence industrial complex in the city of Dnepropetrovsk with a hitherto unknown non-nuclear hypersonic ballistic missile named Oreshnik.
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Trump and Milei, or Government by chain saw
The scariest question that pops up when thinking about a second Donald Trump presidency is, “How bad can it get?”
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Defying settler colonialism
Far from the killing grounds of Gaza, an incredible display of defiance to settler colonialism has broken out in, of all places, New Zealand. The two projects–Israel and New Zealand’s–are linked more than many would like to think. Palestinian leaders raise their voices in support of New Zealand’s Māori people at this critical moment.
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15 Democrats join House GOP to pass ‘MAGA assault’ on nonprofits
“This bill is a five-alarm fire for anyone who seeks to protect free speech, civil society, and democracy,” said one rights advocate.
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Anti-trans campaign incites violence, as Congress seeks federal restroom ban
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election, Nancy Mace, a far-right representative from South Carolina, has been the figurehead for a move to ban transgender people from using restrooms on Capitol Hill that correspond to their gender.
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The dictatorial threat of Trump’s recess appointment plan
Donald Trump’s threat to force through his slate of far-right cabinet nominees as “recess appointments” without Senate confirmation votes marks a significant step in the de jure breakdown of constitutional forms of government.