Socialist visions should be empirically grounded and socially just. They should emphatically not rely on magical thinking, or perpetuate colonial inequalities. As I demonstrate here, “green growth” visions fall foul of these core values.
Austerity
Stathis Kouvelakis & Costas Lapavitsas: Syriza’s Repressive Turn
Alexis Tsipras’s government promised to end austerity. Now it’s defending the banks against people evicted from their homes — and persecuting those who protest. Read here
Geopolitics
United Nations – “More than a human can bear”: Israel’s systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since October 2023
Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians as part of a broader effort to undermine their right to self-determination and carried out genocidal acts through the systematic destruction […]
Finance
Mattias Schmelzer – Financial Capitalism Is More Dangerous Than Ever Today
‘The crash of 2008 was supposed to augur the end of ultraspeculative financial capitalism. But financial actors have actually gone from strength to strength since then, and fictitious capital is a bigger menace to global […]
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