Vandana Shiva and her feminist colleague Maria Mies issued the Leipzig Appeal in 1996 to say, 鈥淣o to GMOs and No to Patents on Seed鈥. The call echoes in Shiva鈥檚 new book, writes Niko Leka.
Agriculture
More than 300,000 fires have burned more than 80 million hectares and claimed hundreds of lives across South America this year, reports Ben Radford.
Thousands of small farmers, landless peasants and agricultural workerscame from across Pakistan on October 6 to demand a minimum support price for their produce and an end to corporate farming and land grabs, reports Susan Price.
From Earth鈥檚 history to global heating, water crises and socialist strategy 鈥 Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents eight new books for radical readers.
Israel鈥檚 state-owned water company Mekorot has played a key role in the theft of Palestinian water. "Fuera Mekorot" (Get Out Mekorot) campaign organiser Gisela Cardozo spoke to 麻豆传媒鈥檚 Ben Radford about Mekorot's nefarious activities in Argentina and the campaign against it.
Ecosocialist activist and organiser Jess Spear argues that we need to place an understanding of the ecological crisis at the centre of our struggles, in order to move beyond capitalism and secure a future for humanity and the Earth.
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents six new books on unequal epidemics, biotech in Africa, capitalist greed, climate history, fracking and corporate crime.
Coral Wynter reviews Ultra-Processed People, by Chris van Tulleken, which looks at the industrialised chemicals and processed components that make up the ultra-processed food we buy in supermarkets.
Make Rojava Green Again reports on the conditions, hardships and potential for ecological changes in a region that is undergoing a social revolution and constantly facing military attacks on civil infrastructure and agricultural sites.
Thousands of people joined the Bob Brown Foundation鈥檚 nation-wide 鈥淢arch for Forests鈥, aiming to ramp up pressure on Labor to stop logging scarce native forests.聽
Four years on from the outbreak of COVID-19, Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus introduces new reads for reds and greens, including four important new books on capitalism and the pandemic.
As French President Emmanuel Macron鈥檚 government, under new Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, moves ever further to the right, a radical mass movement is again shaking the country, writes John Mullen.
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