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Is there time for system change?
John Molyneux Time is always an important factor in politics and history but never has it mattered as much as on the issue of climate change. The IPCC Report’s warning in October 2018 that […]
Month: August 2020
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Bangladesh: Cyclone, floods compound COVID-19 emergency
This is an interview conducted by Susan Price, co-editor of Green Left in Australia, with Noor-E-Elahi, an environmentalist in Bangladesh . [First published at: https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/bangladesh-cyclone-floods-compound-covid-19-emergency Two months ago, Cyclone Amphan ravaged southwestern Bangladesh, swallowing […]
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The forests burn again in Brazil
Thiago Ávila Thiago Ávila is a social environmentalist and ecosocialist activist at Subverta-PSOL in Brazil. He is also one of the organizers of the Agroecological Communities of Buen Vivir The global pandemic is […]
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Oil spill threatens disaster for Mauritius
Editor’s note: No sooner had we published an article, ‘The Lebanon explosion is an ecosocialist issue’ (http://www.globalecosocialistnetwork.net/2020/08/07/lebanon-explosion-is-an-ecosocialist-issue/), showing that the catastrophe in Beirut was symptomatic of the general toxic relationship between international capitalism and nature […]
Analyses
Lebanon explosion is an ecosocialist issue
John Molyneux In saying that the terrible explosion in Beirut is an ecosocialist issue I am not counterposing this claim to the fact that this is also an issue of corruption, of government incompetence, […]
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South Africa’s de-centralised lockdown protests
Angela Chukunzira Angela Chukunzira is an activist from Kenya. She is currently a student based at the Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg. On 1 August, South Africa had its most widespread, […]
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Declaration of the Assemblea Mundial por la Amazonia
As devastating fires are starting again in the Amazon we are pleased to publish this declaration of the Assemblea Mundial por la Amazonia [courtesy of Michael Lowy] calling for global solidarity action to defend […]