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Ecosocialism: Working Towards a Definition

Published in the hope of stirring some conversation Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new...

Indigenous Community in Argentina Votes to Ban Canadian Mine

From Intercontinental Cry The Indigenous Municipality of Tilcara, in northern Argentina’s Quebrada de Humahuaca district, has ratified legislation that prohibits open-pit metal mining, as well as the storage, use, sale, production, extraction and...

Cuba Offers Unused Land to Small Farmers

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...

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...

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)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (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...

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...

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...