As part of a drive to increase food production and reduce imports, the Cuban government announced a new plan for distribution of idle land to small farmers and cooperatives throughout the island. The focus will be on land near urban areas, so that city-dwellers will not have to travel long...
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Demography and Women's Rights
This email is from John Riddell, co-editor of Socialist Voice. He has given permission to republish it here. He stresses that these are informal notes, not a worked out article or analysis. The June 29 New York Times Magazine features a significant article on population trends, entitled No Baby...
Agrofuel Company Violently Represses Indigenous Communities In Guatemala
Rights Action calls for protests against Inter-American Development Bank policies that fund agrofuel monoculture Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to email a link...
For a Union Response to Capitalist Climate Change Plans
‘The trade union movement urgently needs to develop its own positions on how to fight global warming’ Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to email a link...
Australian Government Considers Pro-Business Carbon Trading Plan
Report commissioned by Labor Party proposes “solutions” that won’t work Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in...
Ecuadorian Assembly Approves Constitutional Rights for Nature
On July 7, the 130-member Ecuador Constitutional Assembly, elected countrywide to rewrite the country’s Constitution, voted to approve articles that recognize rights for nature and ecosystems. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in...
G8 Moves Backward on Climate Change
Statement of organizations affiliated with the G8 Action Network Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, July 9, 2008: The G8’s communiqué regarding their action on climate is actually inaction being masked as movement. It is a great fraud being perpetrated on the global community that would significantly...
British Columbia Awash in Greenwash
By Roger Annis Related Reading: B.C.’s Carbon Tax: A Regressive Hoax Environmental Activists Win Two Victories in British Columbia The Liberal Party government of BC Premier Gordon Campbell, first elected in 2001 and then re-elected in 2005, has carried out some of the worst attacks on social and...
Ecosocialist Manifesto: Comment Deadline Extended
Make your views known by July 15 Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Pocket (Opens in...
Stephane Dion's Green Tax Hoax
Canada’s Liberal Party proposes a tax change that won’t change anything Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new...

