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.
This thought-provoking content analyzes the intersectionality of these principles, offering insights into how green politics seeks to create a world where ecological responsibility, demilitarization, and anti-capitalist values converge for the betterment of society and the planet.
We hope you enjoy these explorations of the progressive ideals of green politics, providing you with valuable perspectives, informed analyses, and potential solutions to the challenges we face. Stay engaged, informed, and inspired, and let’s pave the way toward a future guided by the principles of degrowth, demilitarization, and anti-capitalism.
Discusses the coup attempt in South Korea in early December 2024, and the people’s uprising against it, which ultimately prevailed, and the martial law order was rescinded.
Detailing Israel’s “crime of extermination,” the report makes it clear bombing hospitals is no accident. Six days after the Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel ordered the evacuation of 22 hospitals in northern Gaza. In fact, 1.1 million people were ordered to evacuate the entire north of the enclave within 24 hours. But the evacuation of critically ill patients from nearly two dozen hospitals — a total of around 2,000 people, including newborn babies in incubators, patients on hemodialysis and life support — was not possible, certainly not quickly. The World Health Organization (WHO) condemned the order, calling it a “death sentence” for the sick and injured . Health care workers made the difficult choice to stay with their patients, even as their families were forcibly displaced to the south.
On October 17, 2023, there was a massive explosion in the parking area outside one of these hospitals — Al-Ahli Arab Hospital. Having been displaced from their homes as Israel launched its offensive, thousands of residents were sheltering in and around the hospital, in addition to patients, families and staff.
The Venezuelan question is a black and white issue: either you support Lula and Biden’s regime change efforts in Venezuela, each moving forward in their own way, but coordinated, or you support Maduro and Putin’s defense of Venezuela’s independence and sovereignty. Brazil’s ruling Workers’ Party (PT, by its acronym in Portuguese) has presented itself since its creation as an Ibero-American champion of multipolarity, as has its leader, President Lula, since the beginning of his first term in 2003, but these narratives are now being questioned as never before.
Nonprofit organizations of all orientations are under attack, with threats of withholding funding, for their association with Palestine solidarity activities. Climate justice organizations have not been spared in this wave of Zionist repression. The U.S. climate community and the entire nonprofit ecosystem must understand, and quickly, that a chilling effect on free speech is bad news for a rapidly warming planet and extremely pernicious for frontline communities and CEJ groups. Thus far, we have not seen solidarity efforts for groups like CJA, We Act, and Deep South Center for EJ by many of the larger nonprofits in the climate/environmental sector, nor the larger nonprofit industrial complex. This needs to change expeditiously, for If there’s anything we should take from the imperialist aggressor, NATO, it’s Article 5 of the coalition’s charter – an attack against one shall be considered an attack against all.
The West’s dominant media tell us little about Hamas’ history or ideology, relying instead on “terrorist” clichés. This new book cuts through them to explain. What do we know about Palestine’s Islamic Resistance Movement, commonly known as Hamas? I read independent media every day, but even so, a year after Al-Aqsa Flood and the onset of the Gaza genocide, I found I knew very little. I knew nothing of Hamas’s history or ideology. I didn’t know that it was a political movement born of the Palestinian branch of the region-wide Muslim Brotherhood at the outset of the First Intifada in 1987. I didn’t know that, as Helena Cobban writes, the Western media vilification of Hamas prevented diplomatic initiatives that could have long ago led to peace based on international law.
The state’s attorney is prosecuting University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students over last April’s encampments. Pre-trial hearings for students who participated in a Gaza solidarity encampment in central Illinois last spring are being held on November 20 and December 4, 2024. The outcome of the four students’ trials will determine whether they will risk up to three years of incarceration on felony “mob action” charges for having exercised their free speech rights on campus.
Cuba’s immediate condemnation of Israel’s aggression against Palestine was no surprise, given its historic position of standing on the side of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and and with the struggle for liberation. After breaking diplomatic relations with Israel in 1973, Cuba defended the re-establishment of the pre-1967 borders. In the last year, top Cuban leaders have issued numerous condemnations of Israel and even called mass mobilizations in Havana to emphasize the Cuban people’s support to Palestine.
The Horn of Africa is on the brink of a dangerous turn as the several actors intensify their displays of power in Somalia. Turkey, Egypt, Ethiopia, the UAE, and other regional powers are taking sides in what is fast becoming Africa’s Lebanon—a fractured country where multiple national factions and entities pursue conflicting political agendas. The most prominent player in this new escalation is Egypt, which has begun to channel military experts and weaponry into Somalia to gain much needed leverage with Ethiopia in relation to the Nile water conflict.
