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Inequality worsens Planetary heating
The accumulation of still growing greenhouse gas emissions in an increasingly unequal world is accelerating planetary heating. This is worsening inequalities, both nationally and internationally.
RED OR GREEN – OR BOTH? MARXIST ECOLOGY FROM THE METABOLIC RIFT TO ECOLOGICAL CIVILISATIONTHE MARXIST INTERPRETATION OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY: PART ONERED OR GREEN – OR BOTH? MARXIST ECOLOGY FROM THE METABOLIC RIFT TO ECOLOGICAL CIVILISATIONTHE MARXIST INTERPRETATION OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY: PART ONE
Introduction Of all the issues currently facing humanity, there is none so existential as the climate and environmental crisis. Its effects are everywhere; drought, flooding, crop failure, soil erosion, forest despoliation, food and water shortages, economic...
Trump’s tariffs against Latin America: Part of a global battle
Trump’s tariffs intend to keep it that way, while Latin America’s orientation towards Asia, China and the BRICS is correctly pushing in the opposite direction: to a fairer, multipolar world.
Losurdo vs. Liberalism: Slavery, extermination, and the true history of the “Community of the Free”
Liberalism likes to wear its Sunday best.
Israel’s biggest U.S. donor now owns CBS
After reaching an agreement with President Trump, David Ellison—the son of the second-richest man in the world, Larry Ellison—has acquired Paramount Global, the media giant that owns CBS News.
‘They were able to pass these bills because of anti-Trans media bias’
Documentary filmmaker Sam Feder on the backlash to trans visibility.
The siege of Washington, D.C.: Trump’s police state goes live
Washington, D.C., is a federal territory (the District of Columbia) and is not part of any state. Under the Home Rule Act of 1973, it has an elected mayor and city council, but Congress retains ultimate authority and can (and regularly does) override local laws and...
Afro-Venezuelan memory, struggle and liberation: A conversation with Fita González
A young activist talks about maroon resistance has deep roots in Venezuela, and it resonates with the country’s current communal project.
Exorcising the ghosts of the imperial left: Domenico Losurdo and the class war inside Marxism
Western Marxism is not a tradition to be reclaimed—it’s an enemy ideology crafted in the image of empire. Domenico Losurdo’s final intervention is not an invitation to debate, but a call to defect. From critique to combat. From the seminar to the struggle. From the...
Airbrushing the ghettoes
From Eastern Europe to the Middle East, the legacy of the Holocaust has been used to denigrate left anti-fascism and promote the interests of ethno-nationalist establishments. But we should remember who really killed the ‘Judeo-Bolsheviks’ of the Second World War.
Why doesn’t the U.S. Government know how many people die in custody?
Under the Death in Custody Reporting Act, the government is supposed to track how many people die in law enforcement custody—but the data is a mess.