New Future

With virulent racists attacking him from one side, and sleazy establishment Democrats from the other, Fateh’s opponents represent everything wrong with American politics.

COLOMBO — As Sri Lanka grapples with severe agricultural losses caused by wildlife species ranging from primates to peafowl, in March, the government launched a nationwide, five-minute rapid visual census or a RVC, inviting citizens — farmers, students and officials in particular — to count monkeys, giant squirrels and peafowl simultaneously across the island.

Nearly 500 workers were arrested at the construction site of Hyundai’s new electric vehicle battery factory in Georgia as part of a brutal immigration raid. As the Trump administration targets workplaces with a fully-funded anti-immigration force, workers and their organizations must mobilize to protect workers and stop the mass deportations.

Tropical bird populations are crashing as temperatures soar. That’s according to a new study that found abundances of tropical birds were 25-38% lower than they would be without human-driven climate change and the rising temperatures it has caused. This temperature impact on birds is greater than declines attributed to deforestation. “It’s a staggering decrease.

Rahm Emanuel encourages us to fear China solely because this would unify the country. But what is the threat?

Officials in Guatemala have announced plans to occupy a recently closed oil field with the aim of increasing enforcement in protected areas badly hit by organized crime.

A mini-festival at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe provided a rare space amid the genocide for Palestinian artists to connect, heal, and resist.

Russian-speaking Ukrainians are among the main victims of Vladimir Putin’s invasion, and many have served in the Ukrainian army. The call to “decolonize” Ukraine by banishing Russian ignores this, imposing a vision of narrow cultural homogeneity.

Amazon Rainforest Day, first celebrated in 2008, aims to raise awareness about the importance of Earth’s largest rainforest. There is a place where the Amazon meets the Andes, where forests climb the lower slopes of mountains before giving way to the mists of the cloud forests.

Live entertainment giant Ticketmaster recently inserted language into its user agreements that steers customer lawsuits into a corporate-friendly private justice system, just months after a federal judge ruled its use of such processes was illegal.

Palestine Solidarity La Via Campesina calls on its member organisations and allies to strengthen their actions in solidarity with the Palestinian people. In Palestine, the Israeli occupation regime is waging a genocidal war through starvation in Gaza while deepening its project of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. We urgently appeal to all the civil society organisations and movements globally to intensify mobilisation against this genocide, which uses hunger as a weapon of ethnic cleansing.

Zionists often insist that the use of the word “genocide” to describe Israeli actions in Gaza cheapens other past crimes. Yet in both scale and in intent, Israel’s destruction of Gaza conforms closely to historic genocides.

As another literary festival season draws to a close, a writers’ group is highlighting the connections between publishing, the fossil fuel industry, and the genocide in Gaza.

Campaign for a Binding Treaty In 1972, Salvador Allende warned at the UN about corporate power and of a world where the fate of nations was subordinated to the balance sheets of distant shareholders. Over fifty years later, Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur in her recent report that charts the trajectory from an “economy of occupation” to an “economy of genocide”, highlights how the lack of regulation of transnational corporations has enabled impunity.

The Trump administration has begun deporting immigrants to Eswatini, one of Africa’s smallest countries and its only absolute monarchy. The Eswatini king and his entourage are natural partners for Donald Trump in this shameful, dehumanizing project.

We rejoin Herman Daly in the late 1970s - a tumultuous time for our renegade economist. His so-called "radical" critiques of endless growth - and his insistence that the economy must operate within the Earth’s limits - left him isolated in his field and at odds with colleagues. Yet, from this difficult period emerged a new vision of economics.

Thousands of workers at the JFK8 Amazon warehouse voted to unionize in 2022, sparking hope that we were witnessing a turning point for workers. The egregious union busting by Amazon that followed should have been a rallying cry for Democrats. It wasn’t.

What and where are the grassroots movements and alternative visions that challenge green colonialism and offer ‘ecosocial transition’ pathways toward equitable and ecological futures? This question is at the heart of ‘The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism: Global Justice and Ecosocial Transitions’, an open access book which critiques the promoted solutions to the climate polycrisis while also exploring alternatives.

29-year-old Teuta Hoxha, who has been imprisoned without trial since November 2024, told Novara Media she’s been denied mail and stripped of her prison job since the government’s proscription of Palestine Action, prompting her to start a hunger strike. Harriet Williamson reports.

Our newsletter This August, La Via Campesina members in South Asia, together with other allied organisations, have been preparing for the Third Global Nyéléni Forum in Sri Lanka from 6 to 13 September 2025. On 10 September, we will intensify our struggle against these neoliberal institutions, defend small farmers and rural communities, and protect our food sovereignty and biodiversity. In this Newswrap, we share also more struggles of peasants in all regions and continents.