Extractivism
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Chile: another turn to the right?
16 November 2025 - by Michael Roberts
Chile has a general election today. Around 15m voters can take part in the first round to elect a new president, the lower house and half the seats of the senate. Incumbent President Gabriel Boric, who was elected in 2021, is constitutionally (…) -
The Middle East and Fossil Capitalism: Oil, Militarism and the Global Order
10 November 2025 - by Adam Hanieh
For more than a century, the Middle East has been central to the making of the contemporary world order. Today the region is the world’s largest exporter of oil, and its vast reserves have shaped the rise of fossil capitalism and the unfolding (…) -
Norway: the fossil fuel capital of Europe
8 September 2025 - by Michael Roberts
Norway has a general election today. In a country of 5.6m people, some 4m are entitled to vote and there is usually a high turnout by international standards – over 75%. Indeed, early voting has become increasingly popular, with up to 60% (…) -
Natural resource grabbing in Ukraine and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Imperial powers on the offensive.
20 May 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
Donald Trump’s Administration is on the offensive to increase its access to the strategic natural resources of various countries. Among their targets are Ukraine and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Regarding Ukraine, an agreement was signed in (…) -
Peoples against Extractions
20 May 2025 - by Collective
Corporate appropriation and commodification of territories and nature is expanding in sectoral, geographical, and political terms. The extractive mega-projects linked to the exploitation of crucial minerals, the development of large renewable (…) -
Press Release – CETIM
(Neo)colonial Offensive in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Solidarity with the people of Congo!
7 March 2025 - by CETIM
In line with its long-standing struggle against (neo)colonialism and for the liberation of peoples throughout the world from the shackles of oppression, CETIM expresses its solidarity with the Congolese people, who are facing an offensive by (…) -
Pitfalls of resource-national consciousness:
5 February 2025 - by Patrick Bond
ABSTRACT – Frantz Fanon warned in his 1961 Wretched of the Earth of various ’pitfalls of national consciousness’ associated with the shift to post-colonialism. What of a more recent shift, from resource looting to resource nationalism? Are (…)
- Depression
- ICAN
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- Agriculture and Food Sovereignty
- Antifascism
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