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View(s) from Africa: Verdicts on the “Shameful” COP29 Climate Talks
Negotiators from Africa and elsewhere in the Global South huddle on the final day of the COP29 climate talks in Baku. Credit: IISD/ENB | Mike Muzurakis. Negotiators from Africa arrived in Baku for the...
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An Infrastructure Agenda For Municipal Eco-Socialism
Welcome to third installment in this series! Here’s Part 1 and Part 2. How can we both adapt to and head-off climate change? How can we transition to meeting our basic needs through...
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Democracy Is Not a Customer Loyalty Program
Most of us have a preferred political party. Even if we dislike many of its policies, its rhetoric, or its leader, and see our preference as a compromise, this party is closest to our values and is the...
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Cambridge Students Renew Pro-Palestine Protests, Call for Arms Deals Review
Pro-Palestine protesters have claimed a “liberated zone” at Cambridge University’s Greenwich House as demonstrations continued over the weekend, with more rallies and protests planned for Monday....
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Decoupling ‘The Good Life’ from Capitalism
To offer a meaningful alternative economic system, I believe it is essential that we engage with what we dream of as ‘good lives ‘— the diverging stories, in their own framing and in their own...
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Omnicide Joe?
President Biden has never wavered from approving huge arms shipments to Israel during more than 13 months of mass murder and deliberate starvation of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Biden’s crucial role...
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Europe Needs an Action-Oriented Left
The forward march of extremist forces in Europe continued apace in the 2024 super election year, with far-right parties watching their election results surge in country after country. Their recent...
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The Bonhoeffer Movie and Immigrant Rights
“The church is the church only when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in need. The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life,...
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After a Disappointing COP29, Here’s How to Design Global Climate Talks That...
Many people long involved in global climate negotiations see the annual United Nations COP climate talks as fundamentally flawed. That includes me. On Sunday, the 29th round of talks finished in Baku,...
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Ahead of Thanksgiving, Charlotte Airport Workers Strike
Service workers at Charlotte Douglas International Airport walked off the job Monday in order to protest low wages and unfair labor practices. The employees work for two American Airlines...
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Sri Lanka Is the Only Country in South Asia That Has Some Political Hope
Jayadeva Uyangoda, emeritus professor of political science at the University of Colombo, spoke to Amit Baruah about the groundbreaking November 14 election results and their implications for Sri...
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Peaceful Protests Work: Lessons From the UK
Disruptive climate protests annoy some people, but studies from the UK confirm that they have been effective at shifting public opinion and helping create policy change. Back in July, activists from...
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Left Politics in California: An Interview with Gayle McLaughlin
In 2006 Richmond, California became the largest city in the U.S. to elect a Green Party member as its mayor (a record it still holds). The successful candidate, who served eight years in that office,...
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Bernie Sanders Tries to Stop U.S. Military Aid to Israel, Biden Reaffirms His...
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced three resolutions in the Senate last week to stop U.S. weapons transfers to Israel. The resolutions to end U.S. support for Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians...
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A Reformist Program on Immigration (or What Harris Might Have Said)
The immigration issue has split and/or weakened both center and left parties and movements across many nations in recent years. Serious economic and social problems afflicting national working classes...
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Cities Cut Red Tape to Turn Unused Office Buildings Into Housing
Nearly a fifth of office space across the country sits empty, a record high vacancy rate that’s expected to keep growing. Seeking both to boost their economies and ease their housing shortages, cities...
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Israeli Total War Continues, with “No end in sight” for Palestinians in Gaza
Muhannad Hadi, the special UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, addressed the ambassadors of the UN Security Council states on Monday, Nov. 25, on the “ongoing...
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Why the EU’s Stance on Israel Is Starting to Change
The EU has stood in solidarity with Israel since the start of the war with Hamas, and has been consistent in saying the country has the right to defend itself. But the EU has always said that this has...
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Quantity to Quality
You are one of several theorists, along with Cédric Durand, Jodi Dean, Mariana Mazzucato and others, who have speculated that the hegemony of Big Tech – using algorithms to build data empires that...
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Escaping Trumpism with a People’s Agenda
A clear consensus has emerged that the economy was the key factor behind Trump’sstunning victory. However, that may not be a very accurate description about what led adisaffected electorate wanting to...
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