Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by HASS Amira
According to a report conducted with World Bank participation, the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip account for 80 percent of all people worldwide who are facing famine and severe hunger. 14,000 children have been killed, and 17,000 children remain without adult accompaniment
Destruction (…)
, by BELLO Walden
I still remember attending the first ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in December 1996, a year after its founding. I did not know why known opponents of globalization like me had been invited; I suppose it was to inflict on us the lesson that it was futile to resist. An (…)
, by Fourth International
This statemment was adopted by the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International on 19 October 2020.
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Introduction
The year 2020 thus far has seen the convergence of major crises, the most marking being the covid-19 pandemic which, having seemed to reach a peak in the second (…)
, by PASHKOFF Susan
“These three crises (economic, ecological and political) are global in nature and have impacted countries in both the global north and south.” This is an edited version of Part 1 of an introduction given to the ACR school on September 12. Part 1 and 2 (concerning the impact of the crisis in (…)
, by The Economist
Plans and early-warning systems are always a good idea.
ON SEPTEMBER 2ND 1859 C.F. Herbert, prospecting for gold in south-eastern Australia, saw something sublime in the evening sky. “A scene of almost unspeakable beauty presented itself, lights of every imaginable colour were issuing from (…)
, by KOLINJIVADI Vijay, KOTHARI Ashish
The Green New Deal manifestos in the US and UK are among the most progressive proposals coming out of the industrialised world, but they remain flawed from the perspective of the colonised Global South, and fall short of the fundamental systemic shifts we need to save life on earth.
The year (…)
, by JONES Owen
Extinction Rebellion got the ball rolling, but more radical action is now necessary if humanity is to survive
If only the Daily Express was right. That is not a sentence I ever expected to type. “Extinction Rebellion protests have WORKED as MPs succumb to calls for change”, bellowed the (…)
, by GILDER Alexander
In 2017 56 UN peacekeepers were killed in malicious acts such as when they were deliberately attacked, the most fatalities of that kind since 1994. All but one of the fatalities resulted from operations that included “stabilization” in its name.
Four blue-helmeted UN peace operations have had (…)
, by Against the Current
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA on March 3 sat in the White House firmly denouncing the Russian regime’s seizure of Crimea as a blatant “violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty, Ukraine’s territorial integrity,” and “a violation of international law [and] of previous agreements that Russia has made with (…)
, by CHOMSKY Noam
What is the future likely to bring? A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species from the outside. So imagine that you’re an extraterrestrial observer who is trying to figure out what’s happening here or, for that matter, imagine you’re an historian 100 years from now — (…)
, by LANDER Edgardo
There is no time Other than the one that has touched us. Joan Manuel Serrat
Crisis of the hegemonic civilizational pattern
We are experiencing the terminal crisis of an anthropocentric, monocultural and patriarchal civilizational pattern, based on endless growth and on systematic war (…)
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