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Making the world's poor pay: The economic crisis and the Global South
[This article is available in Spanish: ‘Que pagu
Native blood: the truth behind the myth of `Thanksgiving Day' (now with video)
Video: Thanksgiving: A Native American View
By Mike Ely
It is a deep thing that people still celebrate the survival of the early colonists at Plymouth — by giving thanks to the Christian god who supposedly protected and championed the European invasion. The real meaning of all that, then and now, needs to be continually excavated. The myths and lies that surround the past are constantly draped over the horrors and tortures of our present.
Nationalisation — a key demand in the socialist program
By Dave Holmes
John Bellamy Foster: Ecology and the transition from capitalism to socialism
Walk Against Warming, Sydney, 2006.
Photo by Alex Bainbridge/Green Left Weekly
By John Bellamy Foster
[This article, which first appeared in the November 2008 issue of Monthly Review, is a revised version of a keynote address delivered at the “Climate Change, Social Change” conference, Sydney, Australia, April 12, 2008, organised by Green Left Weekly. It is posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with the author's permission. Watch and listen to Bellamy Foster's presentation HERE. For more articles on Marxism and the ecology, click HERE.]
Michael Lebowitz: `Reach for the book: it is a weapon’
[Presentation at the launch of El Camino al Desarrollo Humano: ¿Capitalismo o Socialismo?(The Path to Human Development: Capitalism or Socialism?) at the Venezuelan International Book Fair, Filven, in Caracas on November 8, 2008. The English version of the pamphlet will be published in a forthcoming edition of Monthly Review.]
‘Transformation’ from above: the upside-down state of the `beautiful game' in South Africa
Bafana Bafana (and Kaizer Chiefs) supporter
By Dr Dale T. McKinley
For the better part of the past century, the most popular sport in South Africa (both in relation to public entertainment and active participation) has been soccer. From its initial introduction into South Africa as a sport played almost solely by the propertied (white) gentry, soccer quickly became, by the turn of the twentieth century, the sport of choice amongst the non-white population and white lower classes.
Once again on ‘The myth of the Tragedy of the Commons’: a reply to criticisms and questions
A reply to criticisms and questions about my article on Garrett Hardin’s influential essay.
By Ian Angus
John Bellamy Foster: `Capitalism has reached its limits'
Postscript to "The Financialization of Capital and the Crisis"
John Bellamy Foster on climate change: `Demand solutions based on necessity, not wealth and profits'
John Bellamy Foster: We need to go down to 350 parts per million [of carbon dioxide], which means very big social transformations on a scale that would be considered revolutionary by anybody in society today -- transformation of our whole society quite fundamentally. We have to aim at that, and we have to demand that of our society.
Forget about capitalism, forget about whether the system can do it. Don't let that be your barometer. Say this is necessary for the planet, for human survival, for justice, for environmental justice, and we just have to do it.
We demand that be done, and we work out the operating system of the world economy, we work out our social relations of production, in accordance with necessity, in accordance with what is necessary for the planet, not in accordance with what is necessary for the accumulation of wealth and profits for a very few.