GST Original Articles
By Charles Posa McFadden / 10 February 2023
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In the aftermath of World War II, the ruling capitalist class within the core capitalist countries countered the universal aspiration of the people for a world without war by launching the Cold War. They also responded to the economic goals of organized labor within the core capitalist countries by conceding to workers a limited right to union organization and collective bargaining, but on condition that union action be limited to wages and working... Read more
By Charles Posa McFadden / 27 January 2023
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A common cause has a common solution
Given the present existential crises which now include both the threat of a quick end to human existence through nuclear war, and the threat from the deepening ecological crisis, our response to both needs to begin with recognition that no problem which has systemic causes is ever more than temporarily and only then partially resolvable by addressing only its proximal causes. We need to identify and address the root causes.
In relation to the... Read more
By Robert Hunziker / 19 January 2023
NASA claims that 2022 was one of the hottest years ever recorded with record-breaking heat waves around the world, as major commercial waterways, like the Danube, Po, Rhine, Yangtze, and Mississippi rivers temporarily dried up leaving humongous river barges choking in mud.
But that was merely global-warming-lite.
The real global warming threat is invisible. It’s the oceans where 90% of planet-generated heat is captured, and it’s starting to impact the climate system with increasing ferocity... Read more
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By Helen Yaffe / 04 June 2023
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In 2017, the Cuban government approved the State Plan to Confront Climate Change, known in Cuba as Tarea Vida (Life Task). With a projection up to the year 2100, Tarea Vida is the world’s only truly long-term state plan to address climate change. Despite being responsible for 0.08% of global CO2 emissions, like other Small Island Developing States (SIDS... Read more
By Paige Bennett / 01 June 2023
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In a study on more than 71,000 animal species around the world, researchers discovered that about 48% are declining. The researchers analyzed population data on mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish and insects. These findings were published in the journal Biological Reviews. According to the World Wildlife Fund, human activities including land... Read more
By Carol Quirke / 29 May 2023
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You might think that, having been raised a mile from where10workers were killed and30more were shot by police while picketing a steel plant, I would have heard of such a tragedy. More confounding, my great-uncle, Eddie Marasovic, was wounded by a police bullet in that violent affair that would become known as a massacre. Yet I knew nothing of it.It... Read more
By Shiraz Durrani / 28 May 2023
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It is instructive to compare the role of trade unions in Kenya’s War of Independence under Mau Mau with the situation under Maji Maji, the Tanzanian people’s war of liberation (1904-1907). Whereas there was little working class involvement in Tanzania, Mau Mau was influenced in its ideological outlook as well as the strategies by the trade union... Read more
By Stan Cox / 20 May 2023
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By John Feffer / 19 May 2023
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By Karen A. Spiller and Prakash Kashwan / 19 May 2023
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One new idea that’s gaining attention is the concept of food forests – essentially, edible parks. These projects, often sited on vacant lots, grow large and small trees, vines, shrubs and plants that produce fruits, nuts and other edible products. Unlike community gardens or urban farms, food forests are designed to mimic ecosystems found in nature,... Read more