WhoProfits, a research project of the Coalition of Women for Peace, has documented corporate plunder of natural resources in the occupied West Bank. For example, Israeli cosmetics firm Ahava’s extraction of mud from the occupied Palestinian Dead Sea and...
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The Myth of the Tragedy of the Commons | by Ian Angus
Is community ownership of land, forests and fisheries a guaranteed road to ecological disaster? Will shared resources always be misused and overused? Is community ownership of land, forests and fisheries a guaranteed road to ecological disaster? Is privatization the...
The Emerging Left in the ’Emerging’ World | by Jayati Ghosh
There is much more dynamism within the global left, especially in the South, than is often perceived. The rejection of capitalism in many of left movements in the South tends to be accompanied not only by imagining alternatives, but also by shifting views about what...
Of Nationalisation, Land Grabs and Vanguards
Over this past week, the National Union of Metalworkers congress has again put both nationalisation and the Freedom Charter firmly onto the political agenda. “Numsa is going to insist on the implementation of the revolutionary programme of the ANC — the Freedom...
Behind the ‘Green Economy’ – A new drive to commodify nature by Christophe
Faced with an even more complex and deeper crisis, capitalism is launching a fresh attack that combines the old austerity measures with an offensive to create new sources of profit and growth through the “Green Economy” agenda. No to the Green Economy I. A New Phase...
‘Green Capitalism’ Bolivia’s warning to Rio+20 Brazil | by Brenda Norrell
Indigenous Peoples will gather in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during June for Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, June 13 --22, 2012. In the struggle to uphold the Rights of Mother Earth, Bolivia warns of the commercialized "green economy" that seeks to...
Marxism, morality, and human nature | by Phil Gasper
Marx rejected bourgeois morality in favor of an ethics of human emancipation, says Phil Gasper ACCORDING TO the German socialist and philosopher Karl Vörlander writing in the early twentieth century, “The moment anyone started to talk to Marx about morality, he would...
Economics: selling the truth, or telling the truth? | by Khadija Sharife
The fundamental market theory of equilibrium, in economics, can be compared to notions of justice conceived in other disciplines, such as electoral democracy and politics. After centuries of trading trials and wars, we were told by leading governments (who may be...
Durban COP17: failures in the making | by Patrick Bond
The failure of Durban’s COP17 – a veritable “Conference of Polluters” – is certain, but the nuance and spin are also important. Binding emissions-cut commitments under the Kyoto Protocol are impossible given Washington’s push for an alternate architecture that is also...


