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A crop of recent polls shows that socialism’s appeal is surprisingly broad. They also reflect a transformed US political landscape that is ripe for a socialist politician to capitalize on — if they’re willing to step up.

The militias wreaking havoc in Sudan also profit from plunder and can pay their recruits a wage much higher than any civilian job available to them. This simple calculation is one of the most important factors behind the country’s horrifying war.

This letter from our Secretary Christopher Ford was published in the Morning Star (newspaper of the Communist Party of Britain, but unfortunately distributed relatively widely in the UK trade union movement) on 21 September. From what we can see they have not published it online. The article by Lindsey German of the “Stop the War … Continue reading “Resist invasion or accept occupation”: reply to Lindsey German of ‘Stop the War’

The real choice is not between globalization and deglobalization, free trade and tariff walls, but between empowering capital and empowering workers.

In 2020, Greek courts condemned neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn as a criminal organization. After six years in jail, its former deputy leader Ilias Kasidiaris is making a political comeback, in conditions that favor his party’s rise.

KEN CARYL, Colo.—A new residential development south of Denver is the testing ground for an unusual partnership that could transform home heating and cooling across the country.  Dandelion Energy, a geothermal startup, and Lennar, one of the nation’s largest homebuilders, recently completed construction of nearly 100 homes at the base of Colorado’s Front Range, each […]

A sprawling reservoir under construction south of Lake Okeechobee that Gov. Ron DeSantis has characterized as the “crown jewel” of Everglades restoration will not be enough to save Florida’s treasured and troubled river of grass, according to a new report. The report, prepared by Friends of the Everglades, an advocacy group, suggests the Everglades needs […]

When Nicole Williams moved into her house in Pennsylvania’s North Centre Township in 2011, it was a homecoming. She’d spent the first few years of her life a half-mile down the road in Brookside Village, a tidy community of 170 mobile homes nestled between the west branch of Briar Creek and a farm that grew […]

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Paloma Beltran with Tanuja Pandey, a climate justice activist in Nepal. In the weeks following the deadly glacier collapse and floods in Nepal this August, researchers from the World Weather Attribution group rapidly assessed the event and concluded that climate […]

Entrevista con Raphaëlle Manière

This week’s United Nations General Assembly in New York featured pleas for urgent action on climate change, with heads of state and Secretary-General António Guterres warning that the window for action is narrowing. Yet climate was a footnote amid the issues commanding public attention, including President Donald Trump’s talk of annihilating Iran, the walkout that […]

Nearly 100 experts on all sides of the solar geoengineering debate gathered to explore responsible research into the emerging climate technology   NEW YORK, NY – Once a fringe topic in the climate community, a solar reflection methods (SRM) educational event hosted by the Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) convened nearly 100 scientists, policymakers, civil […]

The post Scientists and Skeptics Gathered at Climate Week NYC for Serious Exploration of Solar Geoengineering appeared first on Chesapeake Climate Action Network.

From war and geopolitical fragmentation to food insecurity, energy security and the accelerating climate crisis, this year’s UN General Assembly felt less like a single summit and more like a whistle-stop tour through the fault lines shaping the world.

The post UNGA: A week that laid bare the world’s fault lines, climate crisis all over it appeared first on 350.

Saudi Arabia has spent years trying to build up its Yemeni allies against its main opponent, Ansar Allah. Ansar Allah’s sudden military offensive over the last few weeks shows that this project has been a failure, despite all the money spent on it.

Part of California’s labor movement wants to tax billionaires to save health care for 15 million Californians. Another part, close to Gov. Gavin Newsom, doesn’t — and is promoting suspiciously timed charges of abuse about a pro-tax union leader.

At a Walmart distribution center in Mississauga, Ontario, workers have made history by winning the first-ever union contract with the logistics giant in North America. Their fight has meant pay raises for the company’s workers across Canada.

Having long boasted about putting their own countries’ interests first, Europe’s far-right parties are now slavishly supporting the latest US-Israeli war. While they opt for vassalage, antiwar forces have turned out to be the real defenders of sovereignty.

NY-17: Second in a series on the environmental stakes of one of the nation’s most fiercely contested congressional races. Nancy Vann’s resolve has become the subject of a local jingle. Its chorus goes: “If she can do it, so can we.” Vann, 78, moved to Peekskill, 40 miles north of New York City, after September […]

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360. In a modern five-story building in the center of Hamburg, Germany, technicians are preparing to install several new “racks”—gray metal casings that hold computing hardware—alongside the scores that already line the narrow, dimly lit corridors of the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ), one of the world’s […]

How the ISA inherited Pierre Frank’s analysis of Bonapartism — while Ted Grant’s own heirs drifted into propagandism