Fracking song, 2

'My Water's On Fire Tonight' is a product of Studio 20 NYU, in collaboration with Pro Publica: Journalism in the Public Interest.

Mass murder in a Turkish coal mine

Over 300 miners have been killed by a system that values fossil fuels and profits above the lives of those who are paid poverty-level wages to dig for coal

The politics of food and poverty

The global food crisis is tightly connected to poverty, climate change, ecological destruction, migrant workers, imperialism, health and the super-exploitation of workers.

Confronting Injustice: A must-read book for today’s activists

Ian Angus reviews an essential book, written by an activist for activists, a practical contribution to building real struggles for a better world. "Confronting Injustice is a powerful call for collective action against the social causes of poverty...

Socialism is not possible on a ruined planet

Socialist scientist: Radicals who deny the threat of environmental catastrophe are dead wrong. Stopping capitalist ecocide must be a central goal for the left the 21st century.

Avoiding the capitalist apocalypse

In 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century,' Thomas Piketty says capitalism has avoided a Marxist apocalypse. This misrepresents Marxism, and ignores the ever-increasing degradation and destruction of life on Earth, and the looming threat of climate...

China: Mass protests challenge polluters

Resistance to rapid industrialization and encroachment by poisonous industries has led to pitched battles between residents and police in many cities.