How Private Corporations Stole the Sea from the Commons
Overfishing, seabed mining, corporate greed: let’s take back control of our marine environment for the common good.
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Why Workers’ Wages Will Always be Too Low
Karl Marx gets you. In the mid-19th century, he argued that the whole working class is exploited by the capitalist class. The entire point of capitalist enterprise is to accumulate more wealth by systematically stealing a portion of the value workers create. This process is called exploitation.
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Capitalism’s Crimes Against Nature
To stop climate change, we must understand how capitalism generates destructive processes that put the Earth at risk.
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Revealed: Oil Sector’s ‘Staggering’ $3bn-a-Day Profits for Last 50 Years
The oil and gas industry has delivered $2.8bn (£2.3bn) a day in pure profit for the last 50 years, a new analysis has revealed. This has provided it enough power to “buy every politician, every system” and delay action on the climate crisis.
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Be Moderate…We Only Want THE EARTH!
While commenting on the first part of the “Ecological Catastrophe, Collapse, Democracy and Socialism” debate, Foster discusses the most urgent task today: to respond to the ecological catastrophe and the danger of an imminent civilisational collapse from an ecosocialist perspective.
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Mr. Modi, How are You Going to Handle Wheat?
With wheat stocks at a 14-year low and procurement at a 20-year low, how is the ration system going to deliver this staple to crores of people?
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$2 Trillion for War vs. $100 Billion to Save the Planet
The money that is being swallowed into the Western military establishments does not only drift away from any climate spending but also promotes greater climate catastrophe. In 2021, the world’s governments spent $2 trillion on weapons.
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Why An Increase In Women’s Workforce Numbers Might Not Be Good News
Anecdotal evidence and data from the latest Periodic Labour Force Survey indicate that economic distress is driving women to take on any sort of work at very low salaries.
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EU Economies are Down on Their Knees
Welcome to the European Union’s “sanctions from hell.” Germany is heading for a major economic crisis. When Germany sneezes, of course, Europe catches cold — not only the Eurozone but even post-Brexit Britain.
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Extreme Life
Hell on earth? That used to be nothing more than a phrase used for extreme situations, a first-class metaphor. Increasingly, though, it’s becoming an ever more accurate description of our lives on this planet and something we would have to get used to. Except that, for many of us in such a future, there would be no way to do so.
