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By Pablo Solon / 22 January 2017
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What has happened? How did we come to this? What occurred in the process of change that more than 15 years ago won its first victory with the water war? Why is it that a conglomeration of movements that wanted to change Bolivia ended up trapped in a referendum to allow two persons to be re-elected in 2019? To say that it’s all the work of the imperialist conspiracy is nonsensical. The idea of the... Read more
By Jeremy Brecher / 22 January 2017
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Labor Network for SustainabilityAs United States Energy Transfers Partners began building the Dakota Access Pipeline through territory sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, the tribe began an escalating campaign against the pipeline. By this summer nearly 200 tribes around the country had passed resolutions opposing the pipeline and many hundreds of their members joined nonviolent direct... Read more
By Slavoj Zizek / 12 January 2017
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Slavoj Zizek reminds us that being "responsible consumers" will not prevent ecological catastrophe.
By Ashish Kothari / 08 January 2017
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Is degrowth, or the reduction of material and energy uses for human use, a valid and viable strategy for the Global South, i.e. countries and populations that have not reached an excessive or even acceptable level of prosperity? Perhaps not. What is needed is for these regions to find their own home-grown visions and pathways of change. Ecoswaraj or radical ecological democracy (RED) is emerging... Read more
By Richard D. Wolff / 07 January 2017
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Economist Richard Wolff argues that capitalism is to blame for the inequality & instability that threatens society. He proposes an alternative based on workers cooperatives as the solution.
By Sam Gindin / 26 December 2016
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Sam Gindin thinks that the Sanders campaign signals that the conditions are right for building a successful socialist movement. To do this the socialist left will have to build a party actually capable of contesting and taking power.
By Jordy Cummings / 22 December 2016
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Jody Cummings explores the allegations over Russian hacking and the US election, warning us not to fall for the propaganda of a new cold war.