Climate Crisis
Cornel West, Chris Hedges – Dismantling the American Empire
23 October 2024
Solutions
Climate Crisis
Gabriela Cabaña – Hydrogen: Green Solution or Energy Colonialism?
The EU wants to import hydrogen from Chile, but is it really a renewables solution? And what does it mean for Chilean workers and communities? Gabriela Cabaña is a Chilean PhD candidate at the LSE […]
Climate Crisis
Dave Smith, Tracy Edwards, Shaun Dey – The Italian Workers Occupying Against Climate Crisis
‘Faced with the threat of mass redundancies, GKN automotive workers in Florence occupied their factory to save jobs and build green technology.’ In Tribune. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Binoy Kampmark – Welcome to Tariff Land: The Retreat of ‘Free Trade’
The return of protectionist policies in the United States and Europe shows that free trade ‘values’ were only strong while the West was winning. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures […]
DeGrowth
Chris Hedges: Burn the Planet and Lock Up the Dissidents
Climate activists are being locked behind bars while our rulers burn down the world, exemplified by the fossil-fuelled annihilation of Gaza. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years […]
Climate Crisis
Enzo Rossi – Growing Pains: Climate Change and the Socialist Transformation
The debate between those who advocate degrowth and those who advocate eco-modernism on the international left has often been unnecessarily polemical, and both sides have failed to offer a compelling vision to the public. Enzo […]
Solutions
Norman Solomon – “Escalation Dominance” . . . and the Prospect of More Than 1,000 Holocausts
This article is adapted from the keynote speech that Norman Solomon gave at the annual conference of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington, DC on Sept. 24, 2024. Norman Solomon is the […]
Climate Crisis
Bill McKibben – To Avoid Utter Ruin, We Must Turn Off the Fossil Fuel Volcano
There has been plenty of big shifts to the climate on planet Earth before, but not since humans have been here and never as fast as this. Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at […]
Climate Crisis
Alfredo Bosco, Simone Fant – The Difficult Transformation of Poland’s Coal Region
Coal is practically a religion in Upper Silesia, but an energy transition is likely to come sooner than most miners would like. Alfredo Bosco (Ronin) is a documentary photographer focusing on social issues and geopolitical […]
Food Production
Audrey Gaughran, Çağrı Çavuş, Vincent Kiezebrink – How Agriculture’s “Big Five” Thrive in Crisis
Unrestrained concentration in the agricultural commodity market has allowed a handful of companies to maximise profits during a global food crisis. Audrey Gaughran is the Executive Director of the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations […]