degrowth

Degrowth and socialism: Notes on some critical junctures

Güney Işıkara & Özgür Narin — The dialogue between advocates of degrowth and socialism has brought about a partial convergence. At the same time, salient differences between the two currents, highly heterogeneous within themselves, still persist.
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Patriarchy and the origins of women’s oppression

Sue Bull — To fight against patriarchy, we need to know where it comes from, how it developed and how it became so effective.
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Sweden: Assessing Socialistisk Politik and Internationalen’s position on the Russo-Ukrainian war

Jan Czajkowski — The war against Ukraine is not just one more political issue among others, where it is possible to have different opinions within the left. Rather, it is a watershed moment.
Hands of Ukraine

Russia’s war on Ukraine and the European lefts

Murray Smith — The war in Ukraine has cast a harsh light on the radical left in Europe, revealing the best and the worst.
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South Africa: Internationalism and the Russia-Ukraine war – the hypocrisy of (some of) the left

Dale T McKinley — It is unfortunately all too predictable that some on the left are consistently calling for imperial nations/the West to stop objectifying the people of the Global South, while refusing to apply the same to the majority of people and the left in Ukraine and Russia.
sustainability

Planned degrowth: Ecosocialism and sustainable human development

John Bellamy Foster — The word degrowth stands for a family of political-economic approaches that, in the face of today’s accelerating planetary ecological crisis, reject unlimited, exponential economic growth as the definition of human progress.
OTA Chair Joan Kuyek and Alderman John Sewell at panel on Tenant Control, Toronto.

Canada: Tenants confront the housing crisis

Richard Fidler — How Ontario tenants fought for legal security of tenure, and won.
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Europe: The far right is here to stay

David Broder — Figures like Italy’s Giorgia Meloni threaten to establish a new normal in European politics.
El Sisi

Hossam el-Hamalawy: A Decade of Counter-Revolution in Egypt

Hossam el-Hamalawy — The ten years since the coup have witnessed unprecedented repression and censorship
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Nordic Green Left: Solidarity with Ukraine

The Nordic Green Left is a cooperation platform for Nordic left-wing parties. The network adopted this statement in support of Ukraine in Malmö on June 9.
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Russian socialist Ilya Matveev: ‘Prigozhin’s coup attempt has exposed Putin’s vulnerability’

Ilya Matveev discusses the recent armed rebellion led by Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, what it tells us about the realities of Putin’s regime and its possible impacts on the war in Ukraine.
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“Ukraine Resists!”: New book challenges prejudices and misconceptions regarding Putin’s war on Ukraine

Michael Pröbsting — Resistance Books, an Australian based non-profit, progressive book publisher, has published a new book dealing with the Ukraine War: the single most important event in the current conjuncture of world politics.