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- Latin American rural groups urge united action against capitalPeasant communities, indigenous peoples and afro-descendants are today the greatest bastion of rebellion and resistance across the world. Against the looting by capital and empire! For land and sovereignty of our peoples! No socialism without feminism!---READ-->>
- Ecuador's president responds to 'leftist' criticsThose who oppose any use of natural resources would condemn our people to perpetual poverty. What’s needed is not a ban on development, but a democratic effort to use the country’s wealth to benefit the people and the environment---READ-->>
- Capitalist democracy, illustratedWelcome to our level playing field---READ-->>
- Poisoning people in Pennsylvania: Business as usualThese nuclear corporations helped to destroy a town and its people. They left behind contaminated land and water and sick and dead residents … and now they are attacking the victims---READ-->>
- Climate change exposes New York's deep class divideHurricane Sandy and the suffering it has caused are intimately related to the business that the dark towers of Lower Manhattan symbolize. In the hardest hit areas, Occupy activists are organizing grassroots relief efforts---READ-->>
- Why natural disasters are good for capitalismThe perverse logic of capitalism means that Hurricane Sandy will lead to a measurable boost in economic activity---READ-->>
- Essential ecosocialist reading in KoreanA Korean edition of “What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism”---READ-->>
- Neil Smith on the fight for the unity of nature“Socialism is neither a utopia nor a guarantee. It is however the place and the time where and when the unity of nature becomes a real possibility.”---READ-->>
- World's small farmers meet to promote agroecologyLa Via Campesina meeting brings together educators and schools to continue their efforts to promote farming methods that protect nature and empower women and peasants around the world---READ-->>
- Toronto conference: Stop Ontario's tar sands pipeline!Join us at a day-long grass-roots education and organizing meeting, Saturday Nov. 17---READ-->>
- Sandy, climate change, and media hot airWhile BusinessWeek points at global warming, the usual crowd of deniers and pseudo-skeptics is once again promoting doubt.---READ-->>
- East and west, monster storms mainly kill the poorIn every country, the ravages of climate change fall overwhelming on the poor. The people who grow the world’s food are the ones who starve in the aftermath of hurricanes and typhoons---READ-->>
- Corporations steal farmland while farmers starveMost land grabs occur in the world’s most food-insecure countries. Profit-driven agriculture means more food for the wealthy and well-fed, and less for the poor and hungry---READ-->>
- How to fight climate change and rebuild a stricken cityReal answers will only come from the people, when we manage to organize and fight for the things we need through a radical change in social power---READ-->>
- Maps pictured Sandy's devastation – five years agoMaps published in 2007 provide an uncanny prediction of what transpired Monday night---READ-->>
- Environmental journal editors reply to publisherWe regard all of these statements by Sage to be untruths, either deliberate falsehoods or grossly misleading. Sage is putting its own profits before academic freedom.---READ-->>
- 50 years of Silent SpringSilent Spring helped lay the basis for a radical ecological critique of capitalism. Half a century after first publication it’s a book that has never been so important.---READ-->>
- Frankenstorms, infrastructure, and billionnaire condosSandy causes a minor housing problem for the ultra-rich---READ-->>
- A reactionary 'skeptic' takes his best shot … and missesBritain’s leading Conservative newspaper fires a feeble broadside at Climate & Capitalism---READ-->>
- Frankenstorms and climate change: How the 1% created a monsterTo slow the monster of runaway, fossil-fueled capitalism that is creating Frankenstorms and much more ecological and social devastation, we need a vision for a completely different social system.---READ-->>