Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by ESSF, NOVAK Adam, ROUSSET Pierre
Our association carries out permanent solidarity campaigns for five countries in South and South-East Asia, i.e. in one of the regions of the world most affected by a “polycrisis” that is getting worse and worse. There is no longer just the addition of multiple crises - climatic and ecological, (...)
, by Reuters
Lakes and reservoirs have lost 22 gigatonnes a year since 1992, driven by factors including global heating and human consumption
More than half of the world’s large lakes and reservoirs have shrunk since the early 1990s – chiefly because of the climate crisis and human consumption – intensifying (...)
, by Be Like Nina
A report from the Be like Nina trade union
In 1990, there were 670,000 nurses in Ukraine. In 2017, there were almost half that number (360,000). In 2018, the healthcare reform started and the total number of personnel changed. However, if we compare the general data available from the (...)
, by POST Charles
Hard-right politicians and fascist street gangs both pose growing threats to workers and the oppressed. The two groups are related—and connected, argues Charlie Post, but they aren’t the same thing. The Left needs different tactics to combat each one. This is a revised version of a talk given at (...)
, par ANGUS Ian
How genetic engineering and weed killers accelerate capitalism’s assault on insect life
“Plants are, of course, the basis of almost every food chain, and by developing methods of farming that almost entirely eradicate weeds from arable fields, such that crops are often close to pure (...)
Even in death, a tree helps others live.
Trees can die suddenly or quite slowly.
Fire, flood or wind can cause a quick death by severely damaging a tree’s ability to transport water and nutrients up and down its trunk.
Sometimes a serious insect attack or disease can kill a tree. This kind of (...)
, by FINKEL David
EXPLODING OVER THE past year, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s escalating violence and ethnic cleansing in Palestine have become two centers of a deepening global crisis. For the international left, the Ukraine war and Palestine catastrophe, both on their own and together, pose very (...)
, by MOROZOV Evgeny
Let’s retire this hackneyed term: while ChatGPT is good at pattern-matching, the human mind does so much more
Elon Musk and Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak have recently signed a letter calling for a six-month moratorium on the development of AI systems. The goal is to give society time to (...)
, by FRIEDMAN Sam
There are effective vaccines for COVID-19 and effective treatments for HIV/AIDS, but both remain global epidemics. Medical researcher Sam Friedman explains how the profit system offers life-saving medicines to some of us while keeping them out of reach for others.
Capitalism is a system that (...)
, by HARVEY Fiona
IPCC report says only swift and drastic action can avert irrevocable damage to world
Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert.
The (...)
, by IQBAL Syka, WAQAS Muhammad
There are a range of reasons people with long COVID may have poorer mental health.
Many people have persistent symptoms after recovering from COVID, a condition termed “long COVID”. The UK’s Office for National Statistics estimates 1.8 million people in the UK have long COVID symptoms at least 12 (...)
, by ANGUS Ian
A new generation of superkillers is destroying billions of essential insects worldwide Between December 2018 and February 2019, more than five hundred million honeybees were found dead by beekeepers in southern Brazil. If wild bees had been counted, the death toll would likely have been many (...)
, by DREWITT Ed, MAK Brandon
Many people saw their eating habits change during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Some ate more frequently or experimented with healthier recipes. Others ordered more deliveries.
But human diets weren’t the only ones to change. In a recent study, we found that lockdown triggered changes in the diets of (...)
, by Perempuan Mahardhika
Organizing women workers in the garment sector is one of the main programs owned by Perempuan Mahardhika. Although it is not easy, considering that the garment sector is one of the sectors where violations of workers’ normative rights occur very massively and are carried out through intimidation (...)
, by ANGUS Ian
The world’s insects are among the principal victims of capitalist agricultural concentration
Source: Wikimedia Commons, GNU Free Documentation License
In the years following World War II, global capitalism went into overdrive, with devastating effects on the biosphere. Powered by fossil fuels (...)
, by PARRIQUE Timothée
What does Karl Marx have to say about climate change? Quite a lot, according to a new book.
I’m often told that degrowth, the planned downscaling of production and consumption to reduce the pressure on Earth’s ecosystems, is a tough sell. But a 36-year-old associate professor at Tokyo University (...)
, by Against the Current
AFGHANISTAN. IRAN. POLAND. El Salvador and Nicaragua. Texas, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi…
These are among the countries and states where ruling authorities take it upon themselves — in a variety of ways along a broad repressive spectrum — to curtail, suppress or outright nullify women’s (...)
In the first two hundred days of 2022, Taylor Swift’s private jet made 170 flights, covering an average distance of 133 miles. It emitted 8,293 tonnes of carbon dioxide in the process. By way of comparison, the average annual carbon footprint for a US citizen is 14.2 tonnes. In Europe it is 6.8, (...)
, by PILLAI Jayasankar, ROBERTS William (Climate Science)
The Pacific Ocean climate pattern is the opposite of El Niño.
It was anchovy fishermen in Peru who first noticed and named El Niño events in the tropical Pacific hundreds of years ago. Their catches would fluctuate and the largest declines were seen near Christmas when the ocean was at its (...)
, by GOODFELLOW Maya , SAITO Kohei
Author of surprise hit Capital in the Anthropocene has developed his arguments in a new study of Karl Marx’s ecological thinking.
When academic Kohei Saito submitted his manuscript on Karl Marx, the ecological crisis and arguments for degrowth economics, he hoped it might introduce at least (...)
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