Ecology
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Lessons from the assassination of Fikile Ntshangase: Climate violence, the “Right to say No!”, uncompensated resource extraction, financial profiteering and unpaid ecological debt in South Africa’s coal mining belt
22 October 2021 - by Patrick Bond
Fikile Ntshangase died aged 63 on October 22, 2020, assassinated by three thugs who entered her house – with several grandchildren playing nearby – and shot her six times, following her success in stalling a local mine’s expansion. The murder was (...) -
BRICS New Development Bank Corruption in South Africa
5 September 2021 - by Patrick Bond
1. Introduction: Raised – and dashed – expectations for the BRICS replacing Western banking In 2013 in Durban, at the heads-of-state summit of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) bloc, a New Development Bank (NDB) and Contingent (...) -
How Austerity Helped to Ignite Greece’s Historic Wildfires
22 August 2021 - by Stelios Foteinopoulos
If Ferdinand Lassalle lived today, he would be able to watch his ideas age badly. In 1862, Lassalle, speaking to a socialist gathering in Berlin, outlined his theory of the night-watchman state – a neoliberal concept whereby the state transfers (...) -
Global North ‘climate reparations’ to prevent Southern fossil-fuel conflict
19 August 2021 - by Patrick Bond
Abstract The climate crisis is amplified by socio-political and economic injustices everywhere but in 2021, perhaps nowhere as acutely as northern Mozambique. There, the Cabo Delgado province is a site for military intervention against Islamic (...) -
What can be done now to ameliorate poverty, unemployment and inequality?
2 August 2021 - by Jeff Rudin, Jonathan Cannard, Bruce Baigrie, Maxine Bezuidenhout, Jaco Oelofson, Keamogetswe Seipato
“What are the status quo limits to what can be done about poverty, unemployment and inequality?” This sentence, buried deep in a recent Daily Maverick article by one of us, evoked a sizable response, some sympathetic, others hostile. The already (...) -
‘Unequal ecological exchange’ worsens across time and space, creating growing Northern environmental liabilities
19 May 2021 - by Patrick Bond, Rahul Basu
What is “unequal ecological exchange,” especially when applied to resource flows affecting the Global South and its future generations? How does the North’s ecological debt – also termed environmental liabilities – to the South grow, as a result? (...) -
“Too late to be pessimistic! Ecosocialism or collapse”
27 January 2021 - by Daniel Tanuro, Mats Lucia Bayer
We interview Daniel Tanuro, author of the book “Trop tard pour être pessimistes! Écosocialisme ou effondrement”, published this year by Éditions Textuel. As an ecosocialist activist and member of the Anticapitalist Left, Daniel Tanuro is one of the (...) -
As South African climate justice veterans fall, consciousness begins reviving, from below and across
2 January 2021 - by Patrick Bond
On three days last week – December 23-25 – South Africa’s east coast province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) lost three of its clearest voices for social justice and environmental sanity: rural women’s leader Sizani Ngubane (74), trade unionist Patrick (...) -
Climate and environmental crisis: Sorcerer’s apprentices at the World Bank and the IMF
23 December 2020 - by Eric Toussaint
In December 2020, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the signature of the Paris Agreement on Climate, the UN General Secretary sounded the alarm because the situation has fundamentally worsened. In this article we analyze what the World (...) -
Strengthening Agro-business Capitalism and Weakening Federalism
4 December 2020 - by Pritam Singh
India is currently rocked by farmer’s protest. Tens of thousands of farmers have surrounded India’s capital, New Delhi, where they intend to camp out for weeks to protest against the contentious new agricultural laws that could destroy their (...) -
Class Struggle, Environment and the Corona Virus Pandemic
22 April 2020 - by Kunal Chattopadhyay
The Corona virus threat has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation. How not to respond to it from the left is easily seen, by apparently leftist posts circulating in social media (Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter), which suddenly (...) -
State of Power 2020
Corporations as private sovereign powers: the case of Total
7 February 2020 - by Alain Deneault
Total is viewed as “a French oil company,” but in reality it is — like many other transnational corporations — more like a private sovereign power. Contribution of the philosopher Alain Deneault at « State of Power 2020 ». Having studied, written (...) -
Extractivism and resistance in North Africa
23 November 2019 - by Hamza Hamouchene
Northern African countries are key suppliers of natural resources to the global economy, from large- scale oil and gas extraction in Algeria and Tunisia, to phosphate mining in Tunisia and Morocco, to water-intensive agribusiness paired with (...) -
Climate change and imperialism: what connects the Amazon fires and the EU-Mercosur agreement?
2 October 2019 - by Aleksandar Matković
From the crisis to the Mercosur agreement There have been many discussions on the next global crisis (including Adam Tooze and Ann Pettifor, and the Marxist economists Michael Roberts and John Smith), and I’ve also written and talked about it (...) -
Big Shift Global coalition reacts to the World Bank Group’s post-2020 climate goals announcement
5 December 2018 - by Big Shift Global coalition
On Monday, the World Bank Group released a new set of climate targets for 2021-2025, through which it aims to provide and mobilize $200 billion in support of countries’ climate action over this period. According to the Bank’s press release, it (...) -
Climate scheme hands $105 million profit to global insurance industry
27 November 2018 - by Jubilee Debt Campaign
Caribbean disaster insurance scheme receives $293 million in premium payments and grants, pays out $131 million in claims, with $105 million going as profit to global insurers Figures released ahead of climate change negotiations in Poland show (...) -
Despotism, neoliberalism and climate change: Morocco’s catastrophic convergence
26 July 2017 - by Jawad Moustakbal
Claims of Morocco’s exceptionalism during the Arab Spring now ring hollow as protests spread in the face of elite policies that deny dignity to the majority. On Friday, 28 October 2016, a tragic fatal incident happened in Al Hoceima city in (...) -
How TIAA Funds Environmental Disaster in Latin America
6 February 2017 - by Linda Farthing
Pension fund giant TIAA is investing its clients’ funds in farmland and agribusinesses tied to environmental and human rights abuses in Latin America. If you are in U.S. academic, research, medical, or cultural fields, your assets are likely (...) -
The rise and fall of World Bank funded megaprojects
3 February 2017 - by Bretton Woods Project
Summary World Bank confirms support for controversial Southern Gas Corridor Bank pulls out of DRC Inga hydropower project IFC to sell stake in Guinea Simandou mining project New complaint regarding Uganda Bujagali hydropower project (...) -
Behind the fumes: the dirty truth behind the World Bank’s commitments on climate change
3 February 2017 - by Bretton Woods Project
Summary IFC investments in FIs supported at least 41 coal power plants since 2013 Investments contravene 2013 Bank policy on coal, contribute to climate change and deforestation Lack of disclosure on FI sub-projects continues to deprive (...) -
Big business in Marrakech: fertiliser industry and finance dominate COP22
9 November 2016 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco, GRAIN
Africa will be centre-stage at this year’s Conference of Parties on climate change (COP 22) in Marrakech. According to the Moroccan steering committee, this is the “African COP”. The event will feature an “Africa Pavilion”, with activities supported (...) -
World Bank money is helping to finance Asia’s coal boom: report
4 November 2016 - by Isabel Esterman
Should the World Bank Group be held accountable when financial institutions it supports invest in projects that threaten forests and communities? After tracing the Group’s links to controversial projects like the Rampal coal power station, the (...) -
Migrations – Looting and Climate
20 October 2016 - by Nicolas Sersiron
With its 1.79 children per household, Germany is in demographic decline. The production of its wealth relies on wage earners. It must import a workforce for which it does not have to provide care for the first few years and which it hopes will (...) -
On the perspective of ruling classes and the elite in Morocco on global environmental issues
12 October 2016 - by Jawad Moustakbal
The dominant neo-colonial thinking represents the biggest hardship that we face in this country. We were a colony controlled by the French state that left behind some traditions: achieving success and happiness in life is embodied in the attempt (...) -
Tata Mundra Project: Time to End World Bank Immunity
21 September 2016 - by Sushovan Dhar
Fisher-folks, farmers and marginal wage earners in Gujarat, India were shocked to hear about the US federal district court ruling in March this year that the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private lending arm of the World Bank (...)
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