climate

Miguel Urbán Crespo — The rise of authoritarian leaders is the result of an economic and political system of neoliberalism running out of steam and unable to tackle the crises of inequality, precarity, climate collapse and social anxiety.

Adam Hanieh discusses how understanding oil’s place in world capitalism is key to grasping geopolitical dynamics, reviving vital climate struggles, and challenging the structural interests underpinning the system.

Haymarket Books and Verso Books host an urgent conversation about climate catastrophe and the left.

Balasingham Skanthakumar — Cyclone Ditwah must be the wake-up call for course correction by this government and its supporters who brook no criticism of it.

Brian Ashley — The gap between official international climate policy and the lived reality of a warming world has never been wider. In Belém, that gap became a chasm.

Blanca Missé argues for reclaiming Lenin’s method for analysing imperialism and suggests updates, particularly on understanding China and Russia’s global status.

Philipp Köncke looks at how the Chinese party-state overtook the West in the renewable energy market.

Esteban Mercatante explains how capitalism is at the root of a “multidimensional” ecological crisis, and the need for an ecommunist strategy that takes us beyond the degrowth/ecomodernism divide.

Ståle Holgersen — Stark binaries obscure the real problems we face in building a movement against capitalist ecocide.

Jeyakumar Devaraj — It is high time for environmental NGOs and concerned individuals to push strongly back against false corporate-driven ‘solutions’.

Marty Hart-Landsberg — The AI craze has gone on long enough for us to start drawing some plausible conclusions about where it is leading.

Susan Price — To say “Capitalism kills” is not hyperbole. Capitalism is simply incompatible with life on Earth.