In 2024, the world lost almost 6.7 million hectares of primary tropical forest, the fastest rate ever recorded. The world’s forests are still falling prey to mining, logging and agriculture, but as the climate crisis intensifies, for the first time on record, the leading cause of tropical primary forest loss is fire.
New Future
Here we are, as members and friends of anarchist federations, of prefigurative anarchist structures, thinking about post-revolutionary societies and communities, while living in a reality of climate crisis and rising fascism. Rising temperatures and freezing social connections. Is this really a good time to think about future anarchist societies? Yes.
EAST HALMAHERA, Indonesia — Police in Indonesia’s North Maluku province arrested 27 people and charged 11 of them with weapons offenses and commercial obstruction in late May following conflict with a nickel mining company controlled by Indonesia’s billionaire Barki family.
"Once again, we observe that such accidents, which repeatedly and tragically affect agricultural workers on their way to work, expose the precarious situation of this category of women workers. " FNSA in a statement issued in the wake of the tragic accident.
The World Bank promotes expansion of private land ownership and title to improve efficient land use and recently announced billions of dollars to support these policies, claiming it will also facilitate carbon projects including offsets and afforestation.
Defenders of capitalism argue that cooperation is undermined by individuals’ tendency to take more from society than they contribute. The economist Elinor Ostrom refuted this idea, but without identifying capitalism as the real cause of exploitation.
Centrist Rafał Trzaskowski thought he had it in the bag. He found out the hard way that rightwing knock-offs are no substitute for an actual programme, write Ana Oppenheim and Ewa Pospieszynska - much like a certain Keir Starmer is also finding out.
At a May 24 rally in Paris against imperialism, the Far Right, and the genocide in Gaza, Left Voice member Julia Wallace emphasized the importance of an independent, working-class political alternative that fights our class enemies.