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.
Ralph Nader examines the Trump administration’s deep cuts to USAID under Donald Trump and Elon Musk, arguing that the withdrawal of humanitarian aid has accelerated preventable deaths among children and vulnerable communities across the Global South. Drawing on reporting by Nicholas Kristof and medical research, the article links reductions in health and food assistance to rising mortality from malaria, tuberculosis, and malnutrition. Nader contrasts these cuts with expanding Pentagon expenditures and tax benefits for corporations and the wealthy. The piece argues that shrinking humanitarian programs while increasing military spending reflects a political order that prioritizes war and corporate power over humansurvival.
At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the U.S. to the Israeli military more than ever before.
Buried in the House’s version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) released on Tuesday, is section 224, entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” The provision would arguably do more to intertwine the U.S. military with the Israeli military than the more than $200 billion (inflation adjusted) in military assistance Israel has received from the U.S. since its founding in 1948.
To grasp the durability of the Bolivarian Revolution just four months after the kidnapping of President Maduro and the attack on the country, it is not enough to look at the state, leadership, or even economic policy, although we should not forgo the analysis on that terrain. One also has to examine a different terrain: the production of political consciousness. What is at stake is not only sovereignty in its formal sense, but the extent to which a society has developed the capacity to understand, organize, and reproduce itself—what I have referred to elsewhere as “popular sovereignty.”
The Chadian troops arriving in Haiti are the visible arm of imperialist intervention in which the United States projects force without putting its own boots on the ground.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi started his tenure by making a policy of ‘Make in India’, inviting capitalists from all over the world to manufacture in India. Now he is so compromised and has surrendered Indian interests to the United States so much that he is making his crony capitalists Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani invest in the US economy to create jobs for Americans just so that he can keep Donald Trump happy and not let him go after Gautam Adani, who has recently been acquitted of serious financial fraud charges in US court.
Medea Benjamin examines the U.S. indictment of Raúl Castro over the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue shoot down and places it within the long history of hostile U.S.-Cuba relations. The article recalls repeated warnings from Cuban authorities about airspace violations, newly declassified U.S. documents acknowledging the risks, and Washington’s broader regime-change policies toward Cuba. It also contrasts the prosecution of Castro with the protection historically given to anti-Cuban militants linked to violence against the island. The piece argues that renewed escalation against Cuba will deepen suffering and instability rather than advance justice or reconciliation.
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.
