Ecological debt
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“Too late to be pessimistic! Ecosocialism or collapse”
27 January 2021 - by Daniel Tanuro, Mats Lucia Bayer
We interview Daniel Tanuro, author of the book “Trop tard pour être pessimistes! Écosocialisme ou effondrement”, published this year by Éditions Textuel. As an ecosocialist activist and member of the Anticapitalist Left, Daniel Tanuro is one of the (...) -
As South African climate justice veterans fall, consciousness begins reviving, from below and across
2 January 2021 - by Patrick Bond
On three days last week – December 23-25 – South Africa’s east coast province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) lost three of its clearest voices for social justice and environmental sanity: rural women’s leader Sizani Ngubane (74), trade unionist Patrick (...) -
Climate and environmental crisis: Sorcerer’s apprentices at the World Bank and the IMF
23 December 2020 - by Eric Toussaint
In December 2020, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the signature of the Paris Agreement on Climate, the UN General Secretary sounded the alarm because the situation has fundamentally worsened. In this article we analyze what the World (...) -
Barbarians at the barn: private equity sinks its teeth into agriculture
17 December 2020 - by GRAIN
Financial flows going into agriculture are growing more and more institutionalised – and more and more private. To be sure, investing in agriculture has been going on since time immemorial. After all, farmers do it every day as they improve their (...) -
Energy transitions and colonialism
2 November 2020 - by Hamza Hamouchene
Any talk about green transition and sustainability must not become a shiny façade for neocolonial schemes of plunder and domination—a view from North Africa. The year 2020 has seen an unprecedented oil price crash, causing a shock to the fossil (...) -
IMF’s new policy at odds with green Covid-19 recovery
13 October 2020 - by Bizcommunity
A new review of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) most recent economic policy advice for five countries with ongoing coal sector expansions show it is green-lighting fossil fuel expansion, despite the fund’s stated support for a green (...) -
International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations
21 September 2020 - by WRM
Help stop the advance of monoculture tree plantations in the global South, especially in African countries! Sign this letter to alert people in the global North! Stop development agencies from promoting expansion of large-scale tree (...) -
Agro-imperialism in the time of Covid-19
16 July 2020 - by GRAIN
Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, is known for scandal. It earned the nickname “babykiller” in the 1970s for causing infant illness and death in low-income communities by promoting bottle feeding of its infant formula and discouraging breast (...) -
Millions forced to choose between hunger or Covid-19
26 May 2020 - by GRAIN
On the eve of May Day 2020, in full coronavirus pandemic, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) released some hair raising statistics. About 1.6 billion workers from the informal sector are in dire straits because of the lockdowns (...) -
South/North / Developing Countries/Developed Countries – What is it all about?
11 February 2020 - by CADTM
Lexical choices that are not neutral The terms used to designate the different categories of countries convey the theoretical and political divergences in terms of analysis and strategy. Generally, these divergences are related to the social (...) -
21 May Global #AntiChevron Day
Open Letter to Ecuador on the Chevron Case
23 May 2019 - by Collective
Mr. Lenín Boltaire Moreno Garcés President of the Republic of Ecuador 21 May 2019 Regarding the Chevron-Texaco Case in Ecuador Mr. President, We who belong to many international civil society social organizations and networks who are (...) -
Massive Mobilisation of the International Civil Society on the Global Anti-Chevron Day #AntiChevron
22 May 2019 - by Collective
Press release Amsterdam/Geneva/Quito May 21st 2019 268 organisations, networks, social movements and trade unions from different continents, representing more than 280 millions of persons, are mobilised to denounce the Chevron’s impunity in (...) -
If Politicians Can’t Face Climate Change, Extinction Rebellion Will
21 May 2019 - by David Graeber
A new movement is demanding solutions. They may just be in time to save the planet. On April 15, thousands of activists from a movement called Extinction Rebellion started occupying several sites in central London, shutting down major roads (...) -
Feminism and ecology: the same struggle? – The shaping of ecofeminism
13 May 2019 - by Marijke Colle
The ecofeminist movement was born a few decades ago from the observation that there is an analogy between the exploitation of women and the exploitation of nature. In the current context of urgency and collapse and as the concept of the (...) -
Ecosocialism: For a fighting ecological trade-unionism
16 April 2019 - by Daniel Tanuro
How can we reconcile social struggle and environmental struggle? This question poses problems for trade unionists. To avoid a climate catastrophe, it would be necessary to reduce economic activity, to suppress useless or harmful production, to (...) -
The case of Chevron in the Ecuadorian Amazon:
The ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada closes the doors to end impunity
5 April 2019 - by Stop corporate impunity
The Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples´ Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and End Impunity regrets the ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada regarding the case of Chevron in the Ecuadorian Amazon, and reaffirms the urgent need to establish (...) -
Kenyan Peasants League to Hold First Peasants Agroecology Summer School
1 April 2019 - by Kenyan Peasants League
The Kenyan Peasants League (KPL) a member of La Via Campesina Southern and Eastern Africa Regional Collective is set to hold a Peasants Agroecology Summer School at Mariwa Village in Migori County, Kenya on 15 to 17 April 2019. Hosted by Mariwa (...) -
Tanzania: After Defaulting on Loans, Kilombero Plantation Ltd (KPL) Goes up for Sale
28 March 2019 - by Oakland Institute
Kilombero Plantation Ltd (KPL), the Tanzanian subsidiary of the Guernsey-registered Agrica Ltd., is up for sale after defaulting on loans from several financial institutions. KPL, heralded as the “best in class” player in the field of socially (...) -
The Highest Bidder Takes It All: The World Bank’s Scheme to Privatize the Commons
21 February 2019 - by Oakland Institute
The Highest Bidder Takes It All: The World Bank’s Scheme to Privatize the Commons details how the Bank’s prescribes reforms, via a new land indicator in the Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) project, promotes large-scale land acquisitions (...) -
Climate scheme hands $105 million profit to global insurance industry
27 November 2018 - by Jubilee Debt Campaign
Caribbean disaster insurance scheme receives $293 million in premium payments and grants, pays out $131 million in claims, with $105 million going as profit to global insurers Figures released ahead of climate change negotiations in Poland show (...) -
Mining conflicts multiply, as critics of “extractivism” gather in Johannesburg
14 November 2018 - by Patrick Bond
The World Social Forum’s “Thematic Forum on Mining and Extractivism – critical not only of the mining house Lonmin but of its international financiers and buyers. This is the moment for a profoundly critical standpoint to take root, unhindered by (...) -
How Kabila and the mining giants went from best friends to adversaries
6 November 2018 - by Claude Kabemba, Pascal Kambale
A new mining code has created a rift between mining multinationals and government. For much of this year, two of the most powerful forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been engaged in a tense standoff. President Joseph Kabila, (...) -
UN Human Rights Council passes a resolution adopting the peasant rights declaration in Geneva
1 October 2018 - by La Via Campesina
(Geneva, September 28, 2018) Seventeen years of long and arduous negotiations later, peasants and other people working in rural areas are only a step away from having a UN Declaration that could defend and protect their rights to land, seeds, (...) -
India: Bullet Train – Train with ‘Bullets’ i.e. ‘A Symbol of Violence, Absolute Force’
16 August 2018 - by Krishnakant, Rohit Prajapati
Our First Few Bullet Questions to the Modi Government: - Why is MoEF&CC absent while a foreign government agency is participating in Environmental Consultation? - Ongoing Consultation accepts the need for environmental concerns. Then, why (...) -
Small–scale farmers of Africa and Denmark reject free trade agreements
27 July 2018 - by La Via Campesina
Representatives of La Via Campesina in Southern and Eastern Africa (LVC SEAf) and in European (ECVC) small-scale farming agree that free trade agreements (FTAs) on farm products benefits primarily transnational corporations and furthers the (...)
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