A powerful wave of international labour and civil society solidarity with Palestine, focused on blocking supplies to Israel, was led by striking Italian dockworkers, report Majid S and Rachel Evans.
A powerful wave of international labour and civil society solidarity with Palestine, focused on blocking supplies to Israel, was led by striking Italian dockworkers, report Majid S and Rachel Evans.
Blanca Missé is an associate professor at San Francisco State University, a Workers’ Voice member, and active with the Ukraine Solidarity Network and the Labor for Palestine National Network. In part two of our interview, Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Missé about the need to confront all imperialisms with a class-based internationalism.
Blanca Missé is an associate professor at San Francisco State University and a Workers’ Voice member, who is active with the Ukraine Solidarity Network and the Labor for Palestine National Network. Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Missé about the need to reclaim Vladimir Lenin’s method for analysing imperialism.
In Marx’s Theory of Value at the Frontiers, Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre make a valuable contribution to Marxist economics, first, in demonstrating the empirical credibility of the labour theory of value and, second, in showing how it can explain the economics of imperialism and environmental degradation, writes Neville Spencer.
The Tropical Forest Forever Facility, set to be launched at COP30, is designed to guarantee profits for corporations and governments in the Global North by deepening debt and financial dependency in the Global South, writes Ben Radford.
The failure of UEFA and FIFA to sanction Israel’s football teams amounts to complicity in genocide, argues Leo Earle.
In recent months, a wave of artists throughout the entertainment industry has begun speaking out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, reports William Johnson.
Amid the protests, a global collective hope crisis is simmering, with many people hurting, criminalised, repressed and doubting that justice and dignity are possible, writes Tamara Pearson. But our hope multiplies when we connect and organise with others.
Foreign aid is commonly regarded as an altruistic contribution by countries in the Global North to countries in the Global South, with the aim of reducing poverty. However, while there are some exceptions, foreign aid today reinforces global inequalities by building on the economic and political structures created during the colonial era, argues Allen Jennings.
The Global Sumud Flotilla — the largest maritime mission to Gaza since Israel’s illegal siege began 18 years ago — officially set sail from Barcelona, Catalonia, reports Susan Price.
William Jefferies is Senior Lecturer at SOAS University of London and author of the recently published War and the World Economy: Trade, Tech and Military Conflicts in a De-globalising World. Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Jefferies about imperialism today and why the period of globalisation is coming to an end.
The International Court of Justice ruled that states may be accountable for the wrongful production and consumption of fossil fuels, opening up opportunities for climate justice activists. However, Alex Bainbridge argues it is no substitute for building a more powerful movement.