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End rural slavery in South Africa!
La Via Campesina: South African commercial farming is the most powerful on the continent; it flourishes at the expense of the oppression and exploitation of agricultural workers.
Ultra heatwave: Australia's new normal
The world burns, while corporations and governments fiddle
Evo Morales: Ten commandments against capitalism, for life and humanity
"Our vision of the Communitarian Socialism of Living Well is based on rights and not on the market. It is based on the full realization of human happiness of peoples and populations, through the full complementarity of the rights of peoples, persons, states and Mother Earth"
Call for papers on climate change and social change
The editors of the annual journal Alternate Routes are seeking papers on the environment and prospects for social change, for the 2014 issue.
Geopolitics of the Amazon
Free download from C&C: Alvaro Garcia Linero's powerful book-length response to leftist critics of the Morales government's economic policies, including the controversial TIPNIS highway and so-called 'extractivism.'
Promised Land: Hollywood takes on the frackers
Ted Glick says Matt Damon's new movie doesn't tell the whole story about fracking, but it is nonetheless a strong film about corportate power
What if First Nations stopped subsidizing Canada?
The claim that First Nations live off government subsidies is a racist myth. In reality, Indigenous people have been massively subsidizing Canada for a very long time.
Tar Sands: Is Canada a 'resource colony'?
Some Canadian environmentalists are blaming this ecological nightmare on foreign investors. Their analysis is both mistaken and dangerous: the tar sands are firmly in Canadian hands, and those hands are very dirty.
An Indigenous action program for real change in Canada
The Defenders of the Land program, adopted in 2008, is now proposed as a powerful unifying force for the new Idle No More Movement