Natural Resources
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Nigeria: Extraction-driven devastation: an interview with Nnimmo Bassey
28 April 2021 - by Nnimmo Bassey, ROAPE
In early 2021, anti-extractivist struggles won two major legal victories against Shell Oil’s operations in Nigeria. These wins represent decades of community organizing on the part of Niger Delta activists and residents. ROAPE’s Lee Wengraf (...) -
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 (...) -
Oil, protest and mass solidarity in Mauritius
20 October 2020 - by Ramola Ramtohul
How an environmental catastrophe catalyzmajor anti-government mobilizations in Mauritius. auritius has a reputation for stability and the quality of its democratic politics. Massive protest action is relatively uncommon in the country. But the (...) -
Pandemics: prevention before cure
8 September 2020 - by Michael Roberts
There is now firm evidence of a strong link between environmental destruction and the increased emergence of deadly new diseases such as Covid-19. Indeed, increasing numbers of deadly new pandemics will afflict the planet if levels of (...) -
Belgium’s colonial crimes in the Congo. A duty to remember
17 June 2020 - by Eric Toussaint
Thanks to the Black Lives Matter mobilizations against racism in general, and racism against black people in particular, becoming an international phenomenon more and more people are seeking to know the truth about the dark past of the colonial (...) -
Extractivism and resistance in North Africa
23 November 2019 - by Hamza Hamouchene
Northern African countries are key suppliers of natural resources to the global economy, from large- scale oil and gas extraction in Algeria and Tunisia, to phosphate mining in Tunisia and Morocco, to water-intensive agribusiness paired with (...) -
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, (...) -
Once upon a time there was a popular government that wanted to do away with the export-oriented extractivist model
22 August 2018 - by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet
Large popular mobilizations resulted in the creation of self-organized committees in the neighbourhoods, workplaces, universities and several higher education schools; this has led to the constitution of a people’s government. It has just held (...) -
The method in the madness: Uganda’s budget 2018 is divorced from reality
19 June 2018 - by Mary Serumaga
The report of the Auditor General (AG) for 2016–2017 is another catalogue of systemic theft, embezzlement and wastage of public goods. In this, it is similar to audit reports going back at least two decades. It appears that incompetence as much (...) -
Bio-piracy: the sale of Uganda’s lakes to investors
7 June 2018 - by Mary Serumaga
The fishermen of Kabarole District appear to have blown the whistle on an audacious act of bio-piracy. They brought to the attention of the authorities that they were being barred from access to the 53 crater lakes that they have fished in from (...) -
Land-grabbing and the Financialization of Agricultural Land
28 May 2018 - by Mary N. Taylor
On the occasion of the publication of the report Transnational Corporations and Land speculation in Brazil by Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos (Network for Social Justice and Human Rights), Mary Taylor of LeftEast spoke with Fábio Pitta, (...) -
European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) launches a peasant agroecology manual on how to phase out the use of pesticides
22 May 2018 - by La Via Campesina
Europeans are fundamentally questioning the use of pesticides. In 2017, more than one million citizens signed the European Citizens’ Initiative « STOP Glyphosate », which aims to ban glyphosate marketing in the EU, reform the pesticide (...) -
As World Bank signals end of extraction finance, CSOs call for end to its other fossil fuel funding
10 April 2018 - by Bretton Woods Project
World Bank Group (WBG) President Jim Yong Kim announced at December’s One Planet Summit in Paris that the Bank will cease project lending for ‘upstream’ oil and gas projects after 2019. SUMMARY WBG announced it will end finance for ‘upstream’ (...) -
Mozambique forced to restructure after debt default
27 March 2018 - by Abayomi Azikiwe
Economic growth proves unsustainable for the Southern African state of Mozambique in present world situation due to financial implications that have been going on for some time now. Since 2014 many energy producing emerging states in Africa (...) -
Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline: Not in Our Interest
23 March 2018 - by
[fr]Collectif[es]Colectivo[en]Collective[pt]Coletivo In December 2016, an announcement was made of a nearly 5000 km Nigeria-Morocco offshore gas pipeline which at today’s prices will cost an estimated 20 billion US dollars. In reality, the actual costs will likely be much higher. This pipeline (...) -
Seed Freedom and the Future of Farming
26 February 2018 - by Vandana Shiva, Joris Leverink
In an era of climate change, rejuvenating and regenerating the soil through ecological processes has become a survival imperative for the human species. Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned Indian scholar, environmental activist and author of (...) -
New Evidence of Africa’s Systematic Looting, From an Increasingly Schizophrenic World Bank
5 February 2018 - by Patrick Bond
A brand new World Bank report, The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018, offers evidence of how much poorer Africa is becoming thanks to rampant minerals, oil and gas extraction. Yet Bank policies and practices remain oriented to enforcing foreign (...) -
TuNur in Tunisia: Another case of energy colonialism
10 November 2017 - by Hamza Hamouchene
A familiar ‘colonial’ scheme is being rolled out: the unrestricted flow of cheap natural resources from the Global South to the rich North, maintaining a profoundly unjust international division of labour. While fortress Europe builds walls and (...) -
Understanding feminism in the peasant struggle – A “popular peasant feminism”
14 August 2017 - by La Via Campesina
“A really important part of being women in La Vía Campesina is to identify ourselves and our various struggles” emphasized speakers at the start of the V Women’s Assembly taking place in Basque Country on 17 and 18 July 2017. The peasant women (...) -
Canada’s hand in Tanzania mining fraud
4 August 2017 - by Yves Engler
The Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold’s African subsidiary, Acacia Mining, is embroiled in a major political conflict in Tanzania. With growing evidence of its failure to pay royalties and tax, Acacia has been condemned by President Magufuli, (...) -
Colombia: Free Madre Tierra (Mother Earth) from capitalism and put cities in the service of the people
29 May 2017 - by Eric Toussaint
Bogota, 2600 m altitude, 7.5 million inhabitants. Sunday 30 April, Daniel Libreros, facilitator of the ecosocialist movement, Camila C. (23) and John F. (24), members of CADTM in Colombia picked me up at 8:30 a.m. at the city centre hotel to (...) -
Chilean copper miners on indefinite strike against BHP
5 March 2017 - by Franck Gaudichaud
About 2500 workers have been on strike since February 9 at the Escondida mine in Chile’s north. Owned by two Anglo-Australian mining giants, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, Escondida is the largest producer of “red gold” in the world. The mine (...) -
Marrakech declaration against the summit of false solutions and for a fair and sustainable future for all peoples
29 December 2016 - by
[fr]Collectif[es]Colectivo[en]Collective[pt]Coletivo For real alternatives to preserve environmental balances and recognise climate justice, For a fair and sustainable future for all peoples (Marrakech, November 17, 2016) We, the democratic and progressive social movements and organisations who (...) -
Powering the Plunder: What Morocco and Siemens are hiding at COP22, Marrakech
7 November 2016 - by Western Sahara Ressource Watch
At COP22, beware of what you read about Morocco’s renewable energy efforts. An increasing part of the projects take place in the occupied territory of Western Sahara and is used for mineral plunder, new WSRW report documents. An increasing part (...)
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