Welcome to our collection of articles dedicated to green politics. As our world grapples with pressing environmental and societal challenges, the green political movement emerges as a beacon of change.
These articles explore core areas of green politics such as: degrowth, demilitarization, union and worker rights, and anti-capitalism.
Discover the nuances of degrowth as we examine strategies to reshape economies, moving away from military and capitalist growth models toward a more balanced, regenerative approach. Explore the imperative of demilitarization, unraveling the environmental and social impacts of excessive military expenditures, and delving into proposals for redirecting resources towards constructive, peace-building endeavors. Anti-capitalism is a key theme, challenging the prevailing economic systems that prioritizes profit over people and the environment. Union and worker rights in politics is another key area. Our articles dissect the green political stance on restructuring economies to prioritize social justice, environmental sustainability, and community well-being.
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For 76 years, Gaza has been has been the defiant heart of Palestinian resistance. Today, as Israel’s genocidal war lays bare the brutal dead end of Zionism, Gaza’s struggle transcends geography, bringing a global reckoning with colonialism, oppression, and the cost of silence.
Monther Abed, the sole survivor of the Israeli attack on paramedics in Rafah, reveals the details of the crime in which 15 humanitarian workers were killed.
Cryptocurrency mining uses about 2.3 percent of all U.S. electricity. That is more than the total electricity used for all residential lighting in America.
Ecuador’s National Electoral Council announced the results of the runoff election for the 2025 to 2029 presidential term. Incumbent President Daniel Noboa emerged victorious, earning 55 percent of the vote, while his opponent, Luisa González, trailed behind with 44 percent of the vote. González immediately declared electoral fraud, citing a series of irregularities including Noboa’s declaration of a “state of exception” in seven strategic provinces two days before the elections. During the final stretch of the runoff campaign, U.S. President Donald Trump privately received Noboa at Mar-a-Lago. In the first round of voting Noboa was surprised by a “technical tie” with González, the candidate from the Citizens’ Revolution (CR) party. In the following weeks, González gained unprecedented backing from the Pachakutik Indigenous movement, which garnered five percent of the vote in the first round and has historically clashed with the RC.
Choudhury attempts to deepen the discourse of the politics of mourning by highlighting that when it comes to thinking about Gaza in the contemporary times, thought itself is occupied by discourses that revolve around anti-semitism, human rights and legitimacy. In this regard, is it interesting to note that Choudhary’s book refuses, as he notes, the “dogmatic instruction of what constitutes antisemitism”, to avoid the “injunctions issued by structures of authority and sources of legitimation about how to think.”
Even though Die Linke has re-entered the Bundestag surprisingly securely, one must begin with the obvious: this was the great electoral success of the right, especially the post-fascist AfD. The centre-left suffered an immense political defeat. 20 years ago, when the then Red-Green government lost its majority in 2005, the SPD and Greens together had united about 20.03 million votes. In this federal election, there were only 13.91 million votes. Compared to 2021, the SPD lost around 3.75 million votes, a decline of almost 32%. 2.48 million voters went to the right, 1.76 million to the Union, the rest to the AfD. The Greens got off relatively lightly in comparison, losing around 1.1 million votes net, a decline of around 15%. The big winner of the hour is the AfD — in terms of content, because it has driven the other parties with its xenophobic policies, and consequently also at the ballot box. In 2021, about 4.81 million people gave their vote to the post-fascists; now it was 10.33 million.
Western courts have imposed imperial justice on Africa, but African courts promise judicial sovereignty. Courts created by the UN. Security Council to prosecute crimes committed within one nation have been infamously agendized to create and bolster Western imperial narratives. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was used to justify NATO bombing and the balkanization of Yugoslavia, and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) also served Western purposes. The ICTR began with judicial notice, the assumption of facts that didn’t have to be proven, which were that there was a Tutsi genocide in Rwanda and that the Hutu were guilty.
Die Linke’s resounding electoral success at the national level was due to the synergy between a number of different factors. Besides the party’s primary focus on social issues, these included a strong and successful social media campaign and collaborations with online influencers. The impassioned speech delivered on 29 January by party front-runner Heidi Reichinnek in reaction to the CDU/CSU’s decision to join forces with the AfD in order to push through a motion in the Bundestag to tighten Germany’s migration policy amassed some 25 million views online. At the same time, the party’s ability to successfully mobilize voters and its own rank and file can also be attributed in large part to its door-to-door campaigning, which had been a long time in the planning. Especially in the campaign to secure the direct mandates and the first votes for the constituency candidates, vote-canvassing appears to have been central.
