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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.

Defying Empire: Cuba’s Contributions to the Fight Against Racism and White Supremacy

Franklin Frederick

Defying Empire: Cuba’s Contributions to the Fight Against Racism              and White Supremacy   The white capitalist cannibal has always fed on the world’s black peoples. White capitalist imperialist society is profoundly and unmistakably racist. Walter Rodney   White supremacy and racism cannot be dissociated from capitalism. It was racism and white supremacy that provided the cultural justifications for slavery and the concomitant slave trade, for European colonial expansion and imperialism, without which capitalism would not have developed. Racism and white supremacy also permeate the various hierarchies imposed by the capitalist system and which are fundamental to its maintenance. This intrinsic […]

Cuba Does Not Abandon Venezuela

Alejandra García Elizalde

Solidarity makes no noise. It doesn’t always make the headlines. It doesn’t change the course of an earthquake. But it changes the way people navigate the darkness. And while Venezuela continues to hope for more miracles amid the ruins, Cuba once again steps up, just as it has so many times before.

Peru: How to Steal an Election?

La Línea

These general elections in Peru were not held under conditions of a healthy democracy. On the contrary, the electoral landscape had been rigged beforehand by the coup-making and mafia coalition that, since December 7, 2022, captured the branches of state power.

Palestinian Doctors Abandoned: The AMA’s Silence on Gaza and Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya

Jenin M

At the annual conference of the American Medical Association, activists from CODEPINK urged physicians to speak out for Palestinian pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who has been held in Israeli detention for over 500 days without charge. This article examines the response of the AMA leadership and staff, contrasts it with the organization’s earlier support for healthcare workers in Ukraine, and reflects on the broader silence surrounding the destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system and the detention of Palestinian medical professionals. It also documents efforts by activists and sympathetic delegates to bring the issue before the AMA.

Are the Falling NAEP Scores a Crisis?

Thomas Ultican

Billionaire funded “research” aims to push American education back to the dark days of No Child Left Behind.

How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza by Adam H. Johnson–Reviewed by Kim Scipes

Kim Scipes

Review of a book that examines in detail the role of the liberal, mainstream media in complicity with the destruction of Gaza.

Reconstruction, Seventy-Five Years After, W. E. B. Du Bois, 1943

W. E. B. Du Bois

“Without the help of the American Negro, the abolition movement would have been impossible.”

Claudio Katz: ‘The Argentine left must aim to govern with a strategy for power’

Claudio Katz

Claudio Katz assesses the newfound prominence in Argentine politics of Workers’ Left Front – Unity (FIT-U) MP Myriam Bregman, and outlines some of the debates on the left. Katz also examines Argentina’s political situation, its economic crisis and President Javier Milei’s declining support, within a regional framework marked by events in Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia.

Trump and Rubio Are Weaving a Narrative Based on Lies to Attack Cuba

Hedelberto López Blanch

Fulton Armstrong, a former U.S. intelligence official, told the Spanish newspaper El Mundo that “Trump and Rubio are crafting a narrative tailored to their needs to justify an escalation against Cuba”

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