Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by HARVEY Fiona
IPCC report says only swift and drastic action can avert irrevocable damage to world
Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert.
The (...)
, by IQBAL Syka, WAQAS Muhammad
There are a range of reasons people with long COVID may have poorer mental health.
Many people have persistent symptoms after recovering from COVID, a condition termed “long COVID”. The UK’s Office for National Statistics estimates 1.8 million people in the UK have long COVID symptoms at least 12 (...)
, by Perempuan Mahardhika
Organizing women workers in the garment sector is one of the main programs owned by Perempuan Mahardhika. Although it is not easy, considering that the garment sector is one of the sectors where violations of workers’ normative rights occur very massively and are carried out through intimidation (...)
, by PARRIQUE Timothée
What does Karl Marx have to say about climate change? Quite a lot, according to a new book.
I’m often told that degrowth, the planned downscaling of production and consumption to reduce the pressure on Earth’s ecosystems, is a tough sell. But a 36-year-old associate professor at Tokyo University (...)
, by Against the Current
AFGHANISTAN. IRAN. POLAND. El Salvador and Nicaragua. Texas, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi…
These are among the countries and states where ruling authorities take it upon themselves — in a variety of ways along a broad repressive spectrum — to curtail, suppress or outright nullify women’s (...)
In the first two hundred days of 2022, Taylor Swift’s private jet made 170 flights, covering an average distance of 133 miles. It emitted 8,293 tonnes of carbon dioxide in the process. By way of comparison, the average annual carbon footprint for a US citizen is 14.2 tonnes. In Europe it is 6.8, (...)
, by PILLAI Jayasankar, ROBERTS William (Climate Science)
The Pacific Ocean climate pattern is the opposite of El Niño.
It was anchovy fishermen in Peru who first noticed and named El Niño events in the tropical Pacific hundreds of years ago. Their catches would fluctuate and the largest declines were seen near Christmas when the ocean was at its (...)
, by GOODFELLOW Maya , SAITO Kohei
Author of surprise hit Capital in the Anthropocene has developed his arguments in a new study of Karl Marx’s ecological thinking.
When academic Kohei Saito submitted his manuscript on Karl Marx, the ecological crisis and arguments for degrowth economics, he hoped it might introduce at least (...)
, by ZSURZSÁN Anita
Upon G. M. Tamás’s death last month, even many laudatory obituaries claimed that he marked the endpoint of Hungary’s Marxist traditions. But Marxism isn’t dead in Hungary.
Gáspár Miklós Tamás was, without a doubt, one of the most diverse and creative thinkers in the former Eastern bloc. A (...)
, by BANERJEE Amitava
A recent study found 59% of people with long COVID had damage to at least one organ a year after their initial symptoms.
The latest data from the Office for National Statistics suggests that more than 1.2 million people in the UK report living with long COVID for 12 months or more.
Several (...)
, by HENNESSY Rosemary
In her recent book, Freida Afary makes a compelling case for socialist feminism as an urgent response to twenty-first century crises. Her “new approach” attends to recent historical and theoretical developments (authoritarian capitalism for one), key concepts (among them social reproduction, (...)
, by MiHANDs, TORRES Yennah
Dear Friends and magnanimous supporters in our humanitarian works in Mindanao, Philippines!
Warm greetings!
Eighteen (18) Tropical Typhoons had visited the Philippines in 2022, of which five (5) had made landfalls. Three (3) of those five had severely hit Mindanao: Typhoon Agaton (Megi) last (...)
, by CHATTERGIE Paroma
Fierce debates about visual depictions of the sacred have existed for centuries. An art historian explains the controversies in the Byzantine Empire over images of Christ.
An adjunct lecturer at Hamline University recently lost her job for showing an image of Prophet Muhammad in an art history (...)
, by MONBIOT George
As rich people plough money into ventilation to protect themselves, those with long Covid are treated as an embarrassment.
You could see Covid-19 as an empathy test. Who was prepared to suffer disruption and inconvenience for the sake of others, and who was not? The answer was often (...)
, by WOODRUFF Matthew
The new bivalent boosters against COVID-19 have failed to halt omicron infections. However, new technologies are being developed that pave a way forward.
By almost any measure, the vaccination campaign against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been a global success.
As of (...)
, by FARKAS Kata, JONES Davey
Nearly all the wastewater samples from aircraft arriving in the UK showed evidence of COVID-infected passengers on board.
Small traces of many pathogens, such as viruses we may be infected with, are excreted when we go to the toilet. Ultimately, these agents find their way to municipal (...)
, by BONHOMME Marc, PRICE Susan
Green Left’s Susan Price spoke to Canadian ecosocialist Marc Bonhomme about the 2022 United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15), which took place in Montreal from December 7‒19.
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Susan Price: COP15 in Montreal received far less media attention than COP27 in Egypt. Why is (...)
, by BERGER Eric
The debate over the risks of reinfections – which are likely to continue – could determine what precautions people take, but experts disagree on the data.
A recent study states that Covid-19 reinfections could pose additional risks to people’s long-term health – as compared to only getting Covid (...)
, by LACROIX Samuel, PALHETA Ugo
The correspondence between the attack on Brazilian government buildings and the events on Capitol Hill two years ago is striking. For sociologist Ugo Palheta, who recently published La Nouvelle Internationale fasciste (Textuel, 2022) and hosts the monthly podcast Minuit dans le siècle, these are (...)
, by GRUBER Christiane
An art historian describes the two historical representations of Prophet Muhammad that led to a controversy at Hamline University.
A painting showing the Prophet Muhammad raising his hands in prayer while standing on the Mountain of Light in Mecca. Siyer-i Nebi (Biography of the Prophet), (...)
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