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Ambiente: resistir desde el pie

Se trata de resistir a los embates del modelo de producción desde el pie. Así lo entiende la enfermera del Garrahan Meche Méndez, que lanza con nuevo material su canal de YouTube de contra-información. Con entrevistas a referentes de las luchas ambientales: médicos,...

An analysis of central bank decision-making

An earlier version of this paper was presented at ‘The MPC at 25’, a conference organised by the United Kingdom’s National Institute of Economic and Social Research, in London, 30 March 2022 The process by which central banks take decisions has evolved over the years,...

Greve geral na Bélgica foi a maior dos últimos 40 anos

Ao longo de três dias, os sindicatos belgas organizaram iniciativas contra a intenção do Governo de impor cortes drásticos nas pensões, benefícios sociais, saúde, educação e cultura, além de novos ataques aos migrantes. Os trabalhadores na Bélgica participaram esta...

Sur la montée de l’extrême droite en Amérique latine

L'extrême droite opère-t-elle une montée en puissance sur les scènes politiques latino-américaines ? À quoi renvoie la tendance, socialement et culturellement, à l'échelle continentale ? L'intégralité – en version écrite et augmentée – de l'entretien d'Estelle Falzone...

Repenser les flux de déchets au-delà des oppositions binaires

Près de trente-cinq ans après la signature de la Convention de Bâle visant à réduire les flux transfrontaliers de déchets dangereux, les déplacements internationaux de tous types de déchets continuent à croître et demeurent un enjeu majeur, à la fois éthique,...

Les dessous des déchets

Les déchets saturent notre planète. Tandis que les discours dominants pointent la consommation individuelle et glorifient le recyclage, ils occultent les responsabilités industrielles, les inégalités sociales et les ravages environnementaux. Repenser les déchets,...

Honduras y las trampas de los relatos electorales

Honduras y las trampas de los relatos electorales

Pedro Brieger El domingo 30 de noviembre Nasry Asfura, del Partido Nacional, festejaba porque el sistema de Transmisión de Resultados Electorales Preliminares (TREP) lo mostraba ganando la elección.  El TREP es un sistema que digitaliza y envía las planillas el mismo...

Trump amenaza con dejar morir el T-MEC o elaborar otro acuerdo

Trump amenaza con dejar morir el T-MEC o elaborar otro acuerdo

Mirko C. Trudeau El presidente estadounidense Donald Trump irrumpió nuevamente en la escena económica de Norteamérica con una declaración que sacudió mercados, gobiernos y sectores productivos al sugerir que el  T-MEC podría dejarse morir o reinventarse desde cero. Su...

Banking on Racism? The Blue Jean “War” is Just Beginning

Banking on Racism? The Blue Jean “War” is Just Beginning

Photo by Ryan Moreno One of the oldest maxims in advertising is that sex “sells.” But it turns out that race – and racial controversy – “sells,” too. Witness the sprawling controversy over an American Eagle advertising campaign to promote sales of its new line of blue...

The Progressive Case for Tariffs

The Progressive Case for Tariffs

Cargo ship entering the Columbia River from the Pacific. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. As the Trump Administration continues to push ineffective tariff policies and ignite trade wars, America’s working families hang in the balance — caught between rising prices and a...

Public Debilitation

Public Debilitation

Rebuilding government decision-making power requires not just removing veto points, but also addressing the outsized corporate power that gives the wealthy the best access to policymakers.

Partyism Without the Party

Partyism Without the Party

Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.

People’s Response to APEC: Breakdown or Breakthrough?

The Doomsday Clock advances 10 seconds closer to midnight. Global temperatures rise beyond 1.5°C. Forests burn. Hurricanes intensify. Meanwhile, countries produce bombs and bullets, the New Cold War inches us closer to nuclear annihilation, and US President Donald...

The Dark Triad Can’t Kill Karl

“The most violent, mean, and malignant passions of the human breast…” are the emotions that protectors and defenders of capitalism focus on those who seek to end the profit system and replace it with a more egalitarian system. This is what Karl Marx wrote in his...

Maine Governor Janet Mills Keeps Killing Worker Protections

Maine Governor Janet Mills Keeps Killing Worker Protections

Janet Mills, the governor of Maine, is Democratic Party leaders’ choice for the state’s key 2026 Senate race. She has spent her time in office vetoing protections for workers and tenants and taxes on the wealthy.Maine’s two-term governor, Janet Mills, entered the 2026...

Maine Governor Janet Mills Keeps Killing Worker Protections

Maine Governor Janet Mills Keeps Killing Worker Protections

Janet Mills, the governor of Maine, is Democratic Party leaders’ choice for the state’s key 2026 Senate race. She has spent her time in office vetoing protections for workers and tenants and taxes on the wealthy.Maine’s two-term governor, Janet Mills, entered the 2026...

Momentum Is Building for Medicare for All

Momentum Is Building for Medicare for All

As private health insurers jack up premiums for tens of millions, a majority of Americans now want Medicare for All — even if it entails eliminating private health insurers and raising taxes.A new poll shows a huge majority of Americans now want Medicare for All....

In France, the eternal return of facial recognition

Last May, the French government launched a working group aimed at legalizing real-time facial recognition. Far from being a surprise, this announcement is part of a series of proposals put forward by state officials, along with industrial and scientific players. We...

O planeta em chamas e o calor das cozinhas solidárias

O planeta em chamas e o calor das cozinhas solidárias

Boletim Outras Palavras Receba por email, diariamente, todas as publicações do site Assinar Loading... Assinar Loading... Agradecemos! Você já está inscrito e começará a receber os boletins em breve. Boa leitura! Belém ferveu. Se a Trigésima Conferência sobre as...

Thomas Münzer: O céu na terra pela revolução

Thomas Münzer: O céu na terra pela revolução

Boletim Outras Palavras Receba por email, diariamente, todas as publicações do site Assinar Loading... Assinar Loading... Agradecemos! Você já está inscrito e começará a receber os boletins em breve. Boa leitura! O texto a seguir, originalmente denominado Thomas...

A patética opção da Europa pela guerra

A patética opção da Europa pela guerra

Ilustração: Instituto Tricontinental de Pesquisa Social. Boletim Outras Palavras Receba por email, diariamente, todas as publicações do site Assinar Loading... Assinar Loading... Agradecemos! Você já está inscrito e começará a receber os boletins em breve. Boa...

Tunisia: another political opponent arrested

Tunisia: another political opponent arrested

Ahmed Néjib Chebbi was arrested today, Thursday, December 4, in Tunis after being sentenced to 12 years in prison in a sham trial in which he was accused of “conspiring against state security.” Chebbi, who is 81, is one of the country’s best-known left-wing opponents...

O triunfo da iliteracia • António Bracinha Vieira

O triunfo da iliteracia • António Bracinha Vieira

Nós, humanos, sempre falámos, mas nem sempre escrevemos. A escrita, acontecimento recente, perto de 5.000 anos, lâmina quase sem espessura na nossa história evolutiva, marca o limiar da passagem da Pré-história para a História: e admitiremos que a perda da escrita...

Auschwitz ad infinitum • Um debate com Heiner Müller

Auschwitz ad infinitum • Um debate com Heiner Müller

  Heiner Müller, tem escrito bastante a partir da história alemã, especialmente do nacional-socialismo. Há algo de especificamente alemão nessa matéria teatral? Mao Tsé-Tung disse uma vez que enquanto o nacional-socialismo estivesse ao ataque seria imbatível. E esteve...

O Fim da Revolução • Pedro Levi Bismarck

O Fim da Revolução • Pedro Levi Bismarck

O argumento segundo o qual a CDU deveria ter apoiado a candidatura de Alexandra Leitão não tem nenhuma lógica política a não ser na démarche própria das paixões partidárias. A questão, na verdade, deveria ser posta ao contrário: por que razão deram o Bloco e o Livre...

Crisis global y renovación social

¿Gestión del desastre o búsqueda de autonomía? La iglesia capitalista, con sus sacramentos del crecimiento ilimitado, extractivismo, productivismo, y consumo compulsivo, ha logrado en unas pocas décadas, desde la gran aceleración de los años 50 del siglo pasado,...

¿Dónde nos llevan los designios celestiales del imperio?

“En cuanto termine la guerra [Primera Guerra Mundial] podremos someterlos a nuestro modo de pensar, entre otras cosas porque estarán financieramente en nuestras manos”. William Wilson, presidente de EE.UU., en carta al coronel House. Toda la historia de EE.UU. cabe en...

Your party, our roots and branches

Whatever happens at the Your Party inaugural conference, its seeds are growing into roots across the UK. John Stephens reports on the branch members forging their own paths to action The post Your party, our roots and branches appeared first on Red Pepper.

Mutual aid – review

Revisiting a modern classic ahead of its anticipated expanded edition, Darcy White explores the contours and applications of mutual aid, which for Dean Spade must be grounded in shared understandings of systemic injustice The post Mutual aid – review appeared first on...

50 años después. Lo que pudo ser y no fue

El 25 de abril de 1974 se acababa la dictadura en Portugal y se iniciaba la que se conocería como la revolución de los claveles. El 24 de julio de 1974 caía la dictadura en Grecia. La siguiente tenía que ser la dictadura franquista. Franco murió en la cama, pero el...

Israel lanza una nueva operación militar en Cisjordania

Los soldados israelíes llevan a cabo una incursión entre Nablus y el norte del valle del Jordán, sitiando en particular la ciudad de Tubas. Esta ofensiva es una continuación de las llevadas a cabo en Jenin y Tulkarem, donde el ejército israelí está acusado de crímenes...

Why Putin Went to War — One Year Later

Why Putin Went to War — One Year Later

On Feb. 24, 2022 Vladimir Putin explained his country’s intentions in Ukraine in a televised speech. How has what he said then measured up to today?  Joe Lauria reports.  It is instructive to compare Russia’s war aims expressed on Feb. 24, 2022 to the state of the...

A Desperate Trump Is Stirring Up Race Hatred

A Desperate Trump Is Stirring Up Race Hatred

Chris Lehmann A barrage of bad economic news has spurred Trump to unleash his hate-infested id on any nonwhite target that flits through his overtaxed brainpan. The post A Desperate Trump Is Stirring Up Race Hatred appeared first on The Nation.

Solvej Balle and the Tyranny of Time

Solvej Balle and the Tyranny of Time

Dilara O’Neil The Danish novelist’s septology, On the Calculation of Volume, asks what fiction can explore when you remove one of its key characteristics—the idea of time itself. The post Solvej Balle and the Tyranny of Time appeared first on The Nation.

Lo spettro russo e la cecità dell’Europa

In Ucraina una pace giusta è possibile. Con alcuni punti fermi: l’indipendenza politica e militare dell’Ucraina sorretta da specifiche garanzie, la russizzazione delle province separatiste, uno statuto speciale per la Crimea. L’alternativa è l’autodistruzione...

Val Susa. Avere vent’anni e avere grandi sogni

L’8 dicembre 2005, decine di migliaia di valsusini, incuranti della neve, aggirarono lo schieramento della polizia, presero possesso dei terreni di Venaus dove dovevano iniziare i lavori per la linea ferroviaria Torino-Lione e vi installarono le bandiere “no Tav”....

L’aria della città non rende (più) liberi

L’attitudine delle città ad essere luoghi di autentica convivenza civile, e non meri spazi attraversati da flussi di merci, è logorata dall’omologazione prodotta da globalizzazione e ideologia neoliberista. La politica, soprattutto di destra, si occupa delle città...

Conservative Governance Has Undermined U.S. Life Expectancy

Although, in recent decades, American conservatives have embraced what they call the “Right to Life,” they have certainly done a poor job of sustaining life in the United States.  That’s the conclusion that can be drawn from a just-published scientific study, “U.S....

There Is an Alternative to War

The war in Ukraine provides us with yet another opportunity to consider what might be done about the wars that continue to ravage the world. The current Russian war of aggression is particularly horrific, featuring a massive military invasion of a smaller, weaker...