Chris Williams:Conscious actions by the ruling elite, not natural causes, led directly to the triple nuclear meltdowns. The decisions they made were dictated by the prime directive of capitalism: there is no higher power than the God of Profit.
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WPD: Gates to coercive contraception
Betsy Hartmann: On World Population Day, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hosts an international meeting that blames poor women for the social ills caused by the rich and powerful. Human rights activists fear this heralds a serious backslide to the bad old days of coercive contraception and...
US heatwave: "This is what global warming looks like"
So many temperature records were being broken that there is no point in listing or even attempting to summarise all of the June monthly records
David Rovics sings "The Commons"
This wonderful song by U.S. singer/songwriter David Rovics has been running through my head
An ecosocialist perspective for UK Greens
The political strategy of the Green Party assumes that politics just means fighting elections. This is a doomed approach. We will only win elections by building a movement, and we will never build much of a movement by simply fighting elections.
B.C.'s carbon tax is a failure … and Australia is following suit
As predicted when it was introduced, B.C.'s carbon tax has hurt the poor, while doing nothing to cut emissions. Here's an update ... and a video of Simon Butler speaking on Australia's equally bad plan
Bookchin on Bookchin: An appeal for support
An appeal for support to "Bookchin on Bookchin," a documentary on the life and ideas of a legendary political thinker, philosopher, anarchist and environmental activist.
Overpopulation theory, illustrated
There are definitely too many other people.
Why today's radicals must read Marx's Das Kapital
Marx’s great work, a huge expose of this monstrous system’s essential tendencies towards crises, is the book that every generation must rediscover.
Forty years of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney's classic study led to a veritable revolution in the teaching of African history. It remains one of the most compelling and persuasive books to emerge from the bowels of critical resistance to the exploitation of small countries.