Tanzanian Farmers Mobilize for Agroecology, Food Sovereignty and Pan-Africanism

Tanupriya Singh On November 17-18, over 400 smallholder farmers gathered for the 27th annual meeting of MVIWATA or the National Network of Small-Scale Farmers Groups in Tanzania. Peoples Dispatch spoke to them about their struggle for dignity and justice Hundreds of smallholder farmers gathered in the city of Morogoro on November 17 and 18 for…

On the Development of China’s Environmental Policies Towards an Ecological Civilization

China aims to build nearly 300 eco-cities We are very pleased to republish this important article by Efe Can Gürcan, Associate Professor at Türkiye’s Istinye University, which originally appeared in Volume 3 Issue 3 of the BRIQ (Belt & Road Initiative Quarterly). The author argues that China has already developed a firm understanding of its environmental problems…

China is Building a Truly Ecological Civilization

Carlos Martinez At the World Economic Forum in January 2022, Xi Jinping stated that the realisation of carbon neutrality is an “intrinsic requirement of China’s own high-quality development and a solemn pledge to the international community.” While the inertia of the market-led nations gives us terrifying forecasts for the planet, state socialism in the east…

Amid Devastating Floods, Pakistan and China Partner to Build Climate Resilience

Ruqiya Anwar As part of the Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese and Pakistani scientists teamed up to build a new weather detecting lidar station in Peshawar that will help predict and mitigate future climate disasters. As part of an ambitious initiative to build climate resilience in the aftermath of disastrous floods, Pakistan has, with Chinese…

Localization: Bringing about Buen Vivir to Address Climate Fluctuations and Globalization

Christian Stalberg Localization fosters the capacity for self-reliance while creating a relationship with people’s immediate natural surroundings.  Today, there exists what in my estimation is an unprecedented moment for altering the course of human history. The hopes and dreams for a more equitable, peaceful, just and livable world now have an opening for their realization…

Moscow Receives First Shipment of Venezuelan Tropical Fruits

Yoselina Guevara L. This Saturday, September 3, the first shipment of tropical fruits from Venezuela arrived in Moscow in a cargo flight from the Venezuelan Consortium of Aeronautical Industries and Air Services (Conviasa) by the company Caribbean Plus in cooperation with the Association of Avocado Growers of the Aristides Bastidas Municipality of Yaracuy State, (Aguabas)….

Breaking the Map with the Machete’s Edge: The Internationalism of the Landless

João Pedro Stedile Landless, but with a lot of history, the peasants of Brazil’s MST have been practicing internationalism as a principle since 1984. As in their own flag, the machete overflows the borders and traces the itinerary of new possible maps. For the Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (MST), the dialectic between nationalism…

UNSC Session on Biological Laboratories in Ukraine: Statement by Vassily Nebenzia

Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at the UNSC briefing on biological laboratories in Ukraine Mme.President, Colleagues, COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated how vulnerable humanity is in the face of biological threats. It has exacted a huge toll on us, and it continues to claim people’s lives. When the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) entered into…

Made in the USA: Military Biolabs in Ukraine and the Spread of Disaster

Mission Verdad Contracts, high health risk and bioterrorist impunity also expand with NATO The Chief of the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, reported the existence of a chain of more than 30 biological laboratories divided in countries of the post-Soviet area, including…

What Kind of “Left” Attacks the Working Class as Fascist?

Editorial Comment: I concur with the author’s comments, but would emphasize that I am not against vaccines, but oppose mandates, threats and coercion, as they are a violation of our basic human rights enshrined in both international and national laws. Regarding Latin America, other matters must be considered. Cuba’s vaccines have never served “big pharma”…

Shotgun Science and Bio-Colonialism

Michel Luc Bellemare Introduction As an Ottawa resident and an anarchist, it seems to me that an ultra-leftist analysis at ground zero of this thing is fundamentally necessary, specifically concerning the Canadian Government’s draconian get vaxxed or get fired policy. Having walked the congested downtown of Ottawa, it’s clear that this is an issue that…

Manifeste Conspirationniste: Our Insurrection Will Be Impure!

Paul Cudenec A powerful and inspiring book calling for resistance to the Great Reset and its world is making waves in France. What is perhaps surprising is that it has been published by Seuil, one of the big Parisian publishing houses. What is less surprising is that Manifeste conspirationniste has come under attack from all the usual…

Mass Formation Deflation

Elena Lange Photo by Dan Gaken (CC BY 2.0). The debate over “Mass Formation Psychosis” depoliticizes what should be understood as a confrontation between competing social models. In an expression of irony lost on no one, on January 3rd Google went out of its way to limit search results for the term “Mass Formation Psychosis”…

Food Sovereignty Voices: “In Nature Everything is Connected to One Other”

Joe Parkin DanielsA rally of the Papaye Peasant Movement (MPP). Photograph: Grassroots International Haiti, the western hemisphere’s poorest country, has often been a byword for deforestation and environmental calamity. It is often said that its border with the Dominican Republic can be seen from space, so marked is the difference between the lush forests to…

“Behind the Extractivist Criticism of Progressive Governments Lies the Shadow of Conservative Restoration”

Alvaro García Linera In the face of the naive leftism that thinks that a society can escape world domination by itself, Lenin and Marx remind us that capitalism is planetary, and that the only way to overcome it is also planetary. Therefore the struggles and efforts for the socialization of production in a single country…

Cuba’s Life Task: Combatting Climate Change

Click CC for subtitles in English and Spanish (Arabic and Turkish and more to follow). Cuba’s Life Task: Combatting Climate Change Dani Films Climate change is among the world’s greatest challenges. As a small Caribbean island, Cuba is disproportionately affected by climate change through extreme weather events. Up to 10% of Cuban territory could be…

Beyond the Capitalist Paradigm of Destruction: Generative Chaos

Leonardo Boff I believe that this leap, with our participation, especially the victims of the exploitation of capitalism, can occur and would be within the possibilities of the history of the universe and the Earth: from the current destructive chaos, we can move on to generative chaos of a new way of being and inhabiting…

Leonardo Boff: “Lula Knows that the Ecological Question is Strategic and Fundamental”

Brasil de Fato In an interview, Leonardo Boff talks about Lula, Bolsonaro, Pope Francis and the direction of society. Photo: Brasil de Fato The Brazilian theologian discusses the direction of society, the need to save the people and the planet, and Pope Francis Debates about the climate will be on the agenda of governments all…