Susan Price reviews Adam Hanieh’s new book, Crude Capitalism, which analyses oil’s place in the global capitalist system and the changes in the world oil market.
World
As airstrikes ravage Gaza, destroying homes and killing civilians, the Muslim world’s silence is distressing. While politicians voice rhetorical anger, actual action is lacking, leaving Palestinians to face a relentless military onslaught alone, writes Syed Salman Mehdi.
Prehistoric findings counter the view that humans are naturally greedy, self-centred creatures, as cohabitation and cooperation were part of the evolutionary picture for thousands of years. Rupen Savoulian reports.
Andrew Chuter reviews Henry Grabar’s Paved Paradise, which argues that parking has devastated our cities, wasted valuable space, entrenched car dependency, worsened the climate disaster and raised the cost of housing and most other goods.
While good reporting helps us to be aware of, and understand current events, social change is a long-term endeavour that requires imagination, vision and deconstruction of the status quo. This forum explores the vital role of storytelling.
A new report argues that progressively taxing the world’s seven biggest oil and gas companies would raise significant funds to pay for the losses and damages caused by climate disasters, reports Ben Radford.
While electric cars are often touted as the future of transport and a crucial part of the effort to reach “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions, in reality they are not a meaningful solution, argues Ben Radford.
The Global Ecosocialist Network and Marxmail.world’s “Roadmap to Ecosocialism” forum heard from four speakers about the strategies and tactics needed to move beyond capitalism. Susan Price reports on the presentations.
As Israel launches a new front in its year-long hot war on Palestine, the risk that the conflict, backed by the United States, could become nuclear is a frightening possibility, writes Pip Hinman.
How might we develop a socialist approach to technologies, in the face of the threat of rapid, potentially uncontrollable, climate change? Simon Pirani offers his contribution.
Sam Gindin is the co-author of The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy Of American Empire (with Leo Panitch). Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Gindin about the rise of the United States empire and its role in creating a truly global capitalism.
Sam Gindin is the co-author of The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy Of American Empire (with Leo Panitch). Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Gindin about the nature of the current tensions between states within global capitalism and whether China and Russia could replace the United States empire.
- Page 1
- Next page