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A predictable consequence of the current recession has been a renewal of interest in the politics of welfare and community values. As they seek to patch up a fresh consensus amidst the fallout from the latest crisis of capitalism, both sides of the party political...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni won the presidential elections in February 2011 by a landslide, cementing his two-and-a-half-decade-long hold on power.[1] Just when he could have sailed into his fifth term as Ugandan president on a comfortable mandate, Museveni...
Do Marxists have anything to say about the natural environment and the crisis of sustainability? Has Marx been misrepresented by the many varieties of Marxism that have used his name over the past century?During the height of the economic crisis, the president of a...
It was a strange feeling to be in Zuccotti Park (once called Liberty Plaza Park), right next to Ground Zero. I was with thousands of people listening to speeches through the “people’s microphone.” The crowd looked so similar to those of the late 1990s/early 2000s...
This article is an extended version of a talk delivered at the Marxism 2011 Conference, University College of London, July 3, 2011. It is no secret today that we are facing a planetary environmental emergency, endangering most species on the planet, including our own,...
Presented to the International Labour Rights Information Group Globalization School on Capitalism and the Environment, 3 October 2011 AbstractThe recent rounds of world climate negotiations reveal severe flaws in the character of global capitalism, the role of leading...
The various mechanisms evolved through global negotiations to deal with shared environmental problems, such as climate change, fall short because they are not located within a larger debate on dealing with human well-being and instead focus only on limiting damage....
By Michael LöwyThe present economic and ecological crises are part of a more general historical conjuncture: we are confronted with a crisis of the present model of civilization, the Western modern capitalist/industrial civilization, based on unlimited expansion and...
Climate change is a major challenge for humanity and the environment. Thirty per cent of animal and vegetable species could disappear in a few decades, due to rapid changes in rainfall, temperature, acidity, etc. Hundreds of millions of people live under the threat of...