Chart Source: Author’s own illustration, based on long-term OECD analysis.

  Sept. 30, 2025 

Within a historically short period, capitalist society has generated enormous wealth but also caused profound ecological degradation and threats to survival. Yet the capitalist market economy is incapable of resolving the problems it has created or of securing a liveable environment.

Oct. 4, 2025

See also:"Tapirs, hummingbirds and a billion-dollar bedrock of gold: the Ecuador reserve that is now a battlefield over a new mine" ​https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/04/ecuador-cajas-mining-gold-silver-copper-exploitation-paramo-ecosystem-aoe  

Sept. 19, 2025

Sept. 26, 2025

“Due to social unrest, the Musée d’Orsay is closed,” a sign might have read on Wednesday (Sept. 10), when tourists were not able to admire the works of Courbet. The great revolutionary painter would have surely looked on with sympathy at this shutdown laden with irony, and at the movement that paralyzed Paris on Wednesday with the rallying cry of “Let’s block everything.”

There were some thoughtless vandals, to be sure. But the protesters were mostly young people, very many women, many immigrants, and red banners were everywhere.

Sept. 30, 2025

Aug. 8, 2025

The working class must be ever vigilant of the machinations of the political class. Mark Carney positioned himself as Canada’s response to Trump, but his actions show him to be pro-business and anti-worker.

Workers need to be wary this season. The ground is cluttered with politicians who claim to be our friends. These claims are almost always lies, whether they are uttered in Ottawa or DC, or in any other capital where poisonous populism is celebrated by autocrats. Looking at you, Orban, Putin and Modi!

Aug. 31, 2025

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Aug. 25, 2025

Big banks across the world are substantially increasing their financing of the fossil fuel industry, including for the industry’s expansion during a time of intensifying climate crisis, all while pulling back from previously stated climate commitments.