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Richard Murphy – Labour is not going to deliver
6 July 2024 Richard explains the two most imporrtant policies of why authoritarian liberals are doomed to failure: ignoring climate change and their propagation of Trickle Down
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David Goessmann – Germany in Decline: How Political Illusions Have Fostered the Extreme Right in Europe’s Powerhouse
A broad look at the current state of German politics David Goeßmann is a journalist based in Berlin/Germany Cross-posted from Counterpunch Youtube screengrab The elections for the European Parliament saw a shift to the far […]
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Michael Roberts: Fixing the climate – it just ain’t profitable
The problem is not that renewables are expensive, they’re cheaper than fossil fuels. The problem is that capitalists can’t make huge profits out of them. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and […]
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Pranjal Pandey – Heat wave crisis: Developing nations bear the brunt
Those with least capacity to cope and adapt to extreme heat suffer the most. Pranjal Pandey, a journalist and editor located in Delhi, has edited seven books covering a range of issues available at LeftWord. […]
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Sangeeth Raja Selvaraju, Nick Robins – Port Talbot shows the need for a just transition to net zero
To the extent that there is a renewables transition underway, it is extremely unjust. Nick Robins is Professor of Practice in Sustainable Finance at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, at […]
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Stefano Liberti, Francesco Bellina – Tropical Italy: Sicily’s Mango and Avocado Boom
Some southern Italian farmers are adapting to warmer temperatures by planting tropical fruit, but it won’t offset the agriculture that is being lost due to extreme weather. Francesco Bellina is a photographer based in Palermo, […]
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Charles Stevenson, Inea Lehner, Feroz Khan – National liberation in Palestine is an indispensable step towards degrowth
The Palestinian question represents the sharpest contradiction within the existing capitalist world order Charles Stevenson is a PhD candidate at the Autonomous University of Barcelona researching the macroeconomics of a European degrowth transition, and an […]
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Heiner Flassbeck: Greens down, this is an opportunity for reasonable and globally orientated climate policy
The Greens have crashed brutally in the European elections. In Germany, their share of the vote has almost halved and in France, at 5 per cent, it has even fallen to almost a third of […]
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Wolfgang Knorr – Why Climate Change will be the West’s Downfall
Resilience is the weak point of the economic-social-political system we have come to know as the “West” Wolfgang Knorr is a climate scientist, consultant for the European Space Agency and guest researcher at the Department […]
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Gareth Dale – Green Class Struggle: Workers and the Just Transition
Class struggle will collide with the realities of climate breakdown and the green transition in complex ways, but there are already inspiring examples of worker-led climate action. Gareth Dale teaches politics at Brunel University. He […]