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The COP 16 Convention on Biodiversity is currently being held in Colombia; it is the first summit after the signing of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Fomented by institutions and numerous environmental groups, an agreement to stop the destruction of biodiversity and fight against the sixth mass extinction that is underway was claimed as historic[1] […]

While in New York to speak at the opening of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, President Lula met with the global president of the British multinational oil company Shell, Wael Sawan, and with the president of Shell Brazil, Cristiano Pinto. By Jeferson Choma In his UN speech, Lula spoke about wars and also about […]

By RICHARD WESLEY On Thursday, Sept. 26, Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida’s panhandle out of the Gulf of Mexico, causing massive devastation with a powerful storm surge. But Helene’s path of wreckage had only just begun, as it tore through the southern Appalachian Mountains of Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia. The storm dumped […]

By COOPER BARD The Sept. 10 presidential debate showed clearly that the policies of the two big capitalist parties have a number of points of bipartisan collusion, including support for Israel (and by extension, its war crimes perpetrated with U.S. weaponry), increasing the USA’s military strength generally, and competition against China in the tech and […]

As Latin Americans, where statistics show that Catholicism is predominant, it is possible that most of us have heard at some point in our lives that the Bible says that the world will end in fire. Many of us are probably reminded of this when we imagine wildfires and their ferocity. Reality shows us that […]

By Jeferson Choma The capital São Paulo and a large part of the country’s cities are living under a blanket of smoke. Earlier this week, the capital of São Paulo became the most polluted metropolis in the world. But it inherited this title from cities in the western Amazon, which last month was the most […]

Between July 16 and 21, 2024, several meetings were held combining actions and organizations, which brought together more than 30,000 participants in western France. These meetings were part of a series of protests against the so-called “mega-basins”, artificial water reservoirs, which have stolen from the environment and society, and against which several major mobilizations have […]

The monsoons in South Asia bring regular flooding to the region. In recent years, these floods have been exacerbated by rampant and unsustainable construction across the hilly north and northeast. Today, eastern Bangladesh and northeastern India are victims of this development. Bangladesh’s floods come right after a momentous political revolution that overthrew the dictatorship of […]

While the planet is on its way to recording 2024 as the hottest year that humans have ever experienced, the Iberian Peninsula has already experienced four heat waves this summer, without even having finished the month of August. By L. R. from La Corriente Roja, Spain In recent days a study by IS Global, published […]

As Israel takes its rightful place as a pariah state, the Palestinian people face excruciating suffering, but remain steadfast and confident. These are the reports coming out of occupied Palestine. One portrait of this is the rise in support for armed resistance. By Soraya Misleh To the bloodshed imposed on the Palestinian people from Gaza […]

Class solidarity has been promoted in campaign carried out by CSP-Conlutas and PSTU. By: Roberto Aguiar Ana Rita, a Porto Alegre Municipal Health worker and PSTU militant, together with her niece Melanie (Mel), created a solidarity canteen to help those in need after the climate catastrophe that hit Porto Alegre. They are organzing the distribution […]

In total, 850,000 people have been affected by the latest climate tragedy. By: Editorial Staff In a bulletin released on May 5, the Civil Defense of Rio Grande do Sul counted 83 deaths due to the storms that hit the state. Another 4 deaths are being investigated. In addition, 111 people are missing and 276 […]

By JEFERSON CHOMA In 2005, faced with the terrible and tragic consequences and policies adopted after the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in the United States, North American analysts coined the term “Disaster Capitalism” to refer to how capitalism produces catastrophes and then takes advantage of them to prey on and profit even more from […]

This week, mobilizations took place in several Arab countries in support of the struggle of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, who are heroically resisting Israel’s brutal aggression. The most important ones took place in Amman, the capital of Jordan. By Alejandro Iturbe Western media hardly reported these mobilizations, which were filmed by participants […]

By Cooper Bard, Workers’ Voice On March 18, at the CERAWeek conference in Houston, oil company CEO Amin Nasser (president of Saudi ARAMCO) claimed that a transition away from fossil fuels was a fantasy. He cited numerous statistics attesting to the lack of penetration of renewables into the global economy despite extensive global investment. The […]

On January 26, the International Court of Justice rejected the Israeli request to dismiss the genocide charge and confirmed its jurisdiction to try the case. Furthermore, it decided on six provisional measures, part of which appeared in South Africa’s petition.[1] By Fabio Bosco The Court could not avoid the brutal reality of an ongoing genocide […]