Ted Trainer
This is the first of two articles outlining “The Simpler Way” perspective on the global predicament and the way out of it. Many analysts now see that consumer-capitalism must be replaced, and most alternative thinking in this context …
By Mazin Qumsiyeh
History tells us that every country on earth was subject to colonization and/or had colonized other countries. Post-colonial studies are replete with examples of the kinds of struggles native people have endured in the past, and continue …
Sajai Jose
What exactly is the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution,’ the catchphrase that has been doing the rounds in business, tech and policy circles, which in recent years has been actively popularized by Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the …
Christine Dann
“le seul réalisme c’est de vivre heureux ici et maintenant sans attendre des lendemains qui chantent ou déchantent même si vous ne votez pas” (“the only realistic thing to do is to live happily in the here and …
Omar Dahbour
What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings.
Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)
It is increasingly clear that solutions to …
Alberto Acosta
“The view of nature attained under the domination of private property and money is a real contempt for, and practical debasement of, nature.”
Karl Marx, “On the Jewish Question” (1844)
Water, a slave of capital
When we human …
Şervîn Nûdem
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
Audre Lorde
The past centuries have witnessed many anti-colonial and revolutionary struggles launched and fought with the aim of liberating people and their land from exploitation. They have aspired …
Introduction by Ana Cecilia Dinerstein followed by an interview with María Alicia Gutiérrez (Leader of the Argentine Campaign for the Legalization of Abortion) by the author (*)
The year 2020 ended on a triumphant note for the feminist movement in …
Jen Gobby
Along the shores of Blue River in unceded Secwepemc territory in so-called British Columbia(BC) , Canada, there is a group of Indigenous folks building and living in tiny houses, solarized, built to be mobile, and adorned with vibrant …
Clem McCartney
When the New Zealand Labour Party won the recent general election, the party leader and Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, said they must seize the opportunity “to build an economy that works for everyone.” As a slogan it compares …
Jen Gobby
We know how much is riding on this moment in history. We know that social and ecological systems hang in precarious balance, teetering on the edge of ecological collapse and climate catastrophe, while an emboldening far right threatens …
Clem McCartney
A butterfly flaps its wings in the African jungle, and a few weeks later a hurricane results in North America. That was the image that chaos theory used in order to show that small changes can have big …