Welcome to our collection of articles dedicated to green politics. As our world grapples with pressing environmental and societal challenges, the green political movement emerges as a beacon of change.
These articles explore core areas of green politics such as: degrowth, demilitarization, union and worker rights, and anti-capitalism.
Discover the nuances of degrowth as we examine strategies to reshape economies, moving away from military and capitalist growth models toward a more balanced, regenerative approach. Explore the imperative of demilitarization, unraveling the environmental and social impacts of excessive military expenditures, and delving into proposals for redirecting resources towards constructive, peace-building endeavors. Anti-capitalism is a key theme, challenging the prevailing economic systems that prioritizes profit over people and the environment. Union and worker rights in politics is another key area. Our articles dissect the green political stance on restructuring economies to prioritize social justice, environmental sustainability, and community well-being.
This thought-provoking content analyzes the intersectionality of these principles, offering insights into how green politics seeks to create a world where ecological responsibility, demilitarization, and anti-capitalist values converge for the betterment of society and the planet.
We hope you enjoy these explorations of the progressive ideals of green politics, providing you with valuable perspectives, informed analyses, and potential solutions to the challenges we face. Stay engaged, informed, and inspired, and let’s pave the way toward a future guided by the principles of degrowth, demilitarization, and anti-capitalism.
Marjorie Cohn examines the long history of U.S. efforts to bring about regime change in Cuba, from the Bay of Pigs invasion to the tightening of sanctions under the Trump administration. The article details the humanitarian impact of the blockade, including shortages of fuel, food, medicine, and electricity, alongside growing fears of military escalation. It also revisits past conflicts involving anti-Castro groups, the Cuban Five, and accusations against Cuban leaders. The piece argues that decades of sanctions and intervention have imposed severe costs on Cuban society while reinforcing tensions between Washington and Havana.
What is actually being contested right now is not whether formal legal equality should be preserved or dismantled. That is the terrain the white power structure has chosen, and it is terrain it controls. It controls the courts, the executive enforcement apparatus, the legislative calendar. On that terrain, the fight is over whether to restore the managed reform or accept its elimination.
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The deeper question — the one the revolutionary tradition asked and the current moment makes newly urgent — is what formal legal equality was always insufficient to do, and what would it mean to name that insufficiency publicly while also fighting for the formal protections. In other words, we must explain why the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts were necessary, yet predictably insufficient from the start without a deeper, structural struggle over who controls the state apparatus…Political inclusion without national liberation meant the black population would be formally admitted to a system organized around their continued subordination. The dominant group retained control over the forces and sources of production. The state apparatus remained foreign to the dominated population’s interests. The vote gave you access to a colonial machine that someone else controlled.
This article critiques Pakistan’s liberal intelligentsia for what it describes as selective dissent and accommodation with entrenched power. It highlights a recent anti-imperialist conference organized by the Haqooq-e-Khalq Party and Progressive International as a departure from this trend, linking domestic authoritarianism with global structures of empire, debt, and Zionism. The piece argues for a convergence of movements—political, social, and ideological—to build a coherent resistance that connects internal repression with external domination. It presents this moment as an opportunity to move beyond symbolic critique toward organized, principled politics rooted in solidarity and systemic analysis.
The Supreme Court’s decision to invalidate Louisiana’s congressional map creating two Black-majority districts continues to remind us of how much the U.S. has backpedaled away from the so-called racial “reckoning” of the summer of 2020. The Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais undermines another key plank of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, passed more than 60 years ago with the intent of protecting Black Americans’ voting rights and political representation.
The attack on Mali was a coordinated international destabilization campaign, but as is usually the case, any coverage from the Western press hides the full story.
Argentina’s economic “recovery” under President Javier Milei has drawn praise for falling inflation and fiscal surplus figures. But behind the headlines lies a harsher reality. More than 22,000 businesses have closed, tens of thousands of public sector jobs have been eliminated, and real wages continue to lag behind inflation. Informal work is expanding while child poverty remains above 40 percent. Utkarsh Mishra examines how official statistics can mask deepening social distress, and why Argentina’s neoliberal experiment is being promoted globally as a model despite the growing economic insecurity faced by ordinary people.
Ralph Nader’s “Extra! Extra! All the News the Media Won’t Print” examines what he describes as major stories neglected or underreported by mainstream media outlets. The article discusses government waste linked to the Musk-Trump DOGE initiative, the silence around a proposed New York stock transaction tax rebate reform, disputed estimates of deaths in Gaza, the lack of scrutiny of Donald Trump’s record of alleged sexual abuse, and the absence of organized opposition from former U.S. presidents. Nader argues that corporate media, political caution, and institutional inertia have weakened investigative journalism and limited public accountability on issues with major social and political consequences.
Israel’s continuing assault on Gaza, blockade of humanitarian aid, and treatment of Palestinian civilians have intensified global calls for accountability. Drawing parallels with the international campaign against apartheid South Africa, this article argues that governments, institutions, and civil society must consider coordinated political, economic, and cultural boycotts of Israel. It highlights growing criticism from world leaders, activists, academics, and artists, while condemning the detention of nonviolent activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla. The article also calls for renewed international efforts toward a just resolution of the Palestine question based on human rights, international law, and recognition of Palestinian statehood.
Rethinking Cuba’s political system as a model of participatory democracy. Cuba serves the function of a classificatory device in liberal discourse. It is not analyzed so much as assigned a category. A one-party state is deemed, in advance of investigation, incompatible with democracy. The conclusion is treated as self-evident, though the historical and material assumptions underwriting it are rarely made explicit.
