Spanish general election: can a divided left keep out the right?
By Dick Nichols
By Don Fitz
September 22, 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — The fiftieth anniversary of the first Earth Day of 1970 will be in 2020. As environmentalism has gone mainstream during that half a century, it has forgotten its early focus and shifted toward green capitalism. Nowhere is this more apparent than abandonment of the slogan popular during the early Earth Days: “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.”
What the New Deal can teach us about winning a Green New Deal: Part III—the First New Deal
By Martin Hart-Landsberg
By Susan Pashkoff
United States: What the Sanders' campaign opens
By Dianne Feeley
The revolution has emerged: Sudan’s acute contradictions
By Emma Wilde Botta
By Wojciech Kębłowski
September 18, 2019 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Tribune — If we are to believe transport experts and practitioners, abolishing fares for all passengers is the last thing public transport operators should be doing. For Alan Flausch, an ex-CEO of the Brussels public transport authority and current Secretary General of International Association of Public Transport, “in terms of mobility, free public transport is absurd.”
According to Vincent Kauffmann, a professor at University of Lausanne and one of key figures in sustainable mobility, “free public transport does not make any sense.” Getting rid of tickets in mass transit is judged “irrational,” “uneconomical” and “unsustainable.”
By Chris Saltmarsh