extractivism

The Global Ecosocialist Network and Marxmail.world鈥檚 鈥淩oadmap to Ecosocialism鈥 forum heard from four speakers about the strategies and tactics needed to move beyond capitalism. Susan Price reports on the presentations.

protesters, map of mining site

An Algerian court has acquitted university lecturer and scientist Kamel A茂ssat on all charges related to his opposition to a lead and zinc mine on Algeria鈥檚 Mediterranean coast, following an international campaign of solidarity, reports Susan Price.

Canada fires

Canada's fires have already burned more than eight million hectares of land, severely impacting Indigenous communities already struggling to protect their land, reports Jeff Shantz.

Lithium mine

The people of Potos铆 in Bolivia, like the people of Tierra Amarilla in Chile, want to imagine a different kind of extraction: one that does not destroy the Earth, write听Vijay Prashad and Taroa Z煤帽iga Silva.

Denis Rogatyuk reviewsLatin American Extractivism,听a compilation of articles analysing the political economy of resource nationalism and policies of natural resource extraction by left-wing and right-wing governments in the region.

Despite its clean, green image, Norway has been called out as a 鈥渃limate hypocrite鈥澨齞ue to its reliance on extractive industries, write Gabriele Giacomo Catania and Benedicte Meydel.

Extractivist capitalism has uses the state and its idea of 鈥減rogress鈥 to justify jailing Mapuche defenders of the land, writes Daniel Minchekew眉n.