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John Bellamy Foster: `The roots of the world ecological crisis'
October 29, 2009 -- "We have no other word but crisis to describe it, really. It's very different than the economic crisis that we are now in, in the sense that even a very, very severe economic crisis, such as the one that has been present since late 2007 ... still is, in many ways, a cyclical event... These crises are periodic -- it's part of the nature of capitalism...
Honduras: Deal signed for Zelaya’s return, but struggle continues
October 30, 2009, report by Democracy Now! reporter Andrés Conteris in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa. Conteris has been holed up at the embassy since Zelaya took refuge there in September.
By Stuart Munckton
October 31, 2009 -- After more than 120 days of mass resistance by the poor majority of Honduras, against a coup regime that overthrew elected President Manuel Zelaya, the regime has finally signed an agreement for Zelaya’s reinstatement.
On October 30, Zelaya and the coup regime signed an agreement opening the way for the elected president to take office once more. However, the key demand of the mass resistance for a constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution is excluded by the deal until Zelaya leaves office in late January.
The National Resistance Front against the Coup (FNRG) is pledging to continue its campaign of protests around this demand (see statement following this article) and it is unclear whether it will continue with a planned boycott of the November 29 elections.
`Monthly Review' at 60: Six decades of campaigning for `social and ecological revolution'
On September 17, 2009, Monthly Review celebrated its 60th anniversary at the New York Society for Ethical Culture in New York City.
Malalai Joya: The Afghan people are `squashed between two powerful enemies'
October 18, 2009 -- Malalai Joya: ``Now, my people are squashed between two powerful enemies. From the sky, the occupation forces are dropping bombs, even using cluster bombs and white phosphorus and killing innocent civilians in the name of combatting the Taliban. On the ground, the Taliban and also the Northern Alliance fundamentalists continue their fascism against men and women of my country.
(Updated October 2) Honduras: Dictatorship steps up reign of terror, resistance pushes on
Democracy Now! September 29, 2009.
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By Fred Fuentes, Caracas
(Updated Sept. 27) Insurrection in Honduras: Resistance Front says ‘we won't rest until victory’
Residents of Hato de Enmedio, Tegucigalpa, take control of their barrio. September 22, 2009.
By Federico Fuentes, Caracas
September 25 — Green Left Weekly — “The whole world knows that what we have here in Honduras is a coup regime”, Armando Licona, a leader from the Revolutionary University Student Front said. Green Left Weekly spoke with Licona, whose organisation is part of the National Resistance Front Against the Coup (FNRG), on the phone from the Honduran capital, Tegucilgalpa.
Democracy Now! report, September 22, 2009. Click HERE for program transcript.
[Follow the latest developments live (in Spanish) on Telesur and Radio Globo Honduras.]
By Federico Fuentes, CaracasSeptember 22, 2009 — Green Left Weekly -- The dictatorship in Honduras, which overthrew the elected government of President Manuel Zelaya on June 28, has unleashed a wave of repression against the masses of people who have taken to the streets following Zelaya's dramatic return on September 21.
London climate justice conference: A model of ecosocialist collaboration
By Ian Angus
September 17, 2009 -- Climate and Capitalism -- On September 12, about 100 people attended “Climate and Capitalism”, a one-day conference in London, England, organised by Green Left and Socialist Resistance.
I was invited to participate as editor of the Climate and Capitalism website, and as editor of The Global Fight for Climate Justice, published this summer by Resistance Books (Britain). (The meeting was in part a launch event for the book.) I spoke at the opening plenary [see Ian Angus' presentation below] and in a workshop on the global South.
On September 17, 2009, John Bellamy Foster appeared on Democracy Now! to discuss the financial