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by Utkarsh Mishra

The global shift to clean energy depends heavily on minerals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel and rare earth elements. This article by Utkarsh Mishra examines how the extraction of these resources is reshaping economies and geopolitics while imposing significant environmental and social costs on communities in the Global South. Drawing on evidence from Congo, Indonesia and the Lithium Triangle of South America, it highlights issues of child labour, displacement, pollution, deforestation and water depletion. The article argues that a just energy transition requires stronger protections for workers, Indigenous communities and local ecosystems.

by W. E. B. Du Bois

“Without the help of the American Negro, the abolition movement would have been impossible.”

by Gisela Cernadas, David Vine, and John Bellamy Foster

A new analysis by the Project On Government Oversight argues that the real cost of maintaining the U.S. military is far higher than officially reported. By examining spending across multiple agencies and including long-term obligations and debt-related costs, the study estimates total military-related expenditures in 2025 at between $1.5 trillion and $2.3 trillion. The authors contend that decades of fragmented budgeting have obscured the true scale of U.S. war spending. They call for greater transparency and reforms that would allow the public and lawmakers to assess military priorities alongside social and environmentalneeds.

Nursing in the US is highly unionized, well-paid, and increasingly central to the economy. Rank-and-file nurses are well-positioned to fight for common good demands and for a broader revival of the labor movement.

The Rural Urban Bridge Initiative’s flagship program shows how local organizing can reduce partisan polarization and slow the GOP’s inroads among rural voters — a clue for what it might take for the Left to win in red areas of the country.

The US incarcerates more people than almost any country on Earth. Meanwhile, pharma executives, Wall Street bankers, and fossil fuel companies escape meaningful accountability for harms that have killed far more Americans than street crime ever has.

A reflection on the UN's mid-year climate talks from Rukiya Khamis, East Africa Programme Manager, 350.org

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While President Trump has repeatedly declared the Green New Deal dead, Green New Deal-type programs are burgeoning at a sub-national level. These initiatives are facilitated by the advent of new technologies that have enormously improved fossil free energy production and use and made them far cheaper. This commentary takes a look at Greentech New Deal initiatives in American cities.

The post Greentech New Deals in the Cities first appeared on Labor Network for Sustainability.

Brutish and bigoted, grubbing and petulant, Donald Trump is an uncannily apt embodiment of the full sweep of US imperial arrogance and decadence in Latin America.

For Madison and the other Framers, the danger wasn’t the power of elites but that of the mob.

A luxury resort backed by Jared Kushner has prompted massive protests in Albania, now ongoing for over a month. The project has become a lightning rod for opposition to Prime Minister Edi Rama’s cronyish development model.

This month, A Radical Guide is sending $550 from the Mutual Aid General Fund to The Awkward Gardener's Community Table (TAGCT) in Sacramento.

The post Mutual Aid General Fund Recipient: June 2026: TAG Community Table appeared first on A Radical Guide. by Jason Bayless

Two of Britain’s most powerful unions oppose soft-left MP Ed Miliband’s bid to become chancellor. They fear the green transition could cost jobs in the oil industry, one of the few sectors where workers have consistently secured above-inflation pay raises.

A handful of oil-producing countries and their corporate allies stalled and ultimately derailed the entire process

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Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s by Julia Alekseyeva University of California Press, 2025. 270 pages. $29.95 paperback. THIS EXUBERANT BOOK reveals, or in a favorite word of film critic and historian Julia Alekseyeva, “unveils,” the deep connections among three seemingly disparate times and places of radical documentary filmmaking. The scenes range… Continue reading The Cultural Vanguard Is Antifascist

For Olivia Reingold, one of the most prominent and prolific contributors to Bari Weiss’s Free Press, defending Israel seems to be a far greater priority than the facts.

Big Tech has grown enormously due to tactics such as price gouging and anticompetitive mergers and acquisitions. New legislation to address these in California faces a stiff and very well-funded resistance.

The surge at the border under Joe Biden was a political failure, and one that MAGA weaponized with brutal efficiency. The Left has to offer its own solutions.

Unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver, B.C.) – Activists from Frack Free BC, Stand.earth, and Wilderness Committee have peacefully unfurled a 6m x 6m banner which reads “DEFEAT LNG: RESIST CARNEY’S PIPELINES” at Creekside Park by the Science World soccer ball. Speaking at the banner drop, Stand.earth Oil and Gas Campaign Director Sven Biggs, said: “As […]

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