New Future

Donald Trump loves to present himself as champion of coal miners. But his administration keeps delaying the implementation of a safety rule to lower miners’ exposure to deadly silica dust.

Premises belong to those who use and maintain them. The capitalist concept of property as an instrument of speculation is anathema to our philosophy. The Local Federation of the CNT-AIT Madrid* is facing eviction from its historic premises – premises which its unions purchased, which it paid for and maintained. The Spanish union of CIT has used a sneaky manouevre to present itself as the owner of the premises by registering a ghost union to convince the courts that it is actually the owner – a fraud which the State is apparently eager to turn a blind eye to in its attempt to weaken the anarcho-syndicalist CNT-AIT, in favor of a more compliant alternative. Like many of the premises that were acquired by CNT-AIT unions, the work and cost of getting them was carried out by the local unions. These were not purchased by the national organization and, in the case of the premises in Tirso de Molina, the Local Federation of Madrid only later received a loan. From the CNT-AIT. This is important because it comprised the largest part of the CNT-AIT for years, thus, the money used was also money which largely came from their own dues. Not from an outside source, not from an organization called CNT-CIT.

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the US government created a formidable but temporary array of social programs that led to a sharp decline in economic insecurity. Since then, Americans’ economic insecurity has only gotten worse.

The little-known existence of D-Notices — where major media institutions voluntarily censor themselves in the name of the ‘national interest’ — is central to understanding British journalism’s dirty relationship to state power.

In July 2024, Left Voice’s sister site in Bolivia published an analysis of the MAS from 2006 to 2019. While much has happened since it was first published, we’ve translated the piece because it provides important context for the recent electoral defeat of the MAS after 20 years in power.

The certified organic system is part of the capitalist economic system. It makes it ”realistic” but it also forces it to adapt to the system in order to be successful. And as the system as a whole is not sustainable, it can also not be sustainable in the long run.

Bangladesh’s northeastern corner, as shown on Google Maps, features irregular green patches: pale green swaths and smaller deep green pockets. In or around each deep green area lies a Khasi village, or punjee, with tin-roofed cottages on hillocks, indicating homes to one of Bangladesh’s Indigenous communities.

Our ancient pine forests in Sherani, once crowned as green gold and blanketing rugged mountains, now crumble to ashes due to persistent wildfires.

Multilevel marketing companies promise that everyone can become a boss and get rich if they hustle hard enough. But they’re actually fraudulent pyramid schemes that, like capitalism writ large, require mass exploitation to enrich the few at the top.

Hundreds arrested in a mass kettle of march closing action camp against the arms industry ~ Gabriel Fonten ~ Police in Cologne, Germany used heavy handed tactics on Saturday against a peaceful mass march concluding an anti-militarist camp in the city. The 3,000-strong parade had set out from the “Rheinmetall Entwaffen” antimilitarist camp

The left has four years to stop Nigel Farage from becoming prime minister. Polanski’s Green leadership win is the starting gun on a race we must win, writes James Meadway.

We stand at a turning point. The tools for impact measurement exist and knowledge continues growing. But the decisive step is cultural: Are we ready to take impact seriously - not just as a metric but as the goal of our actions?

So back to my original question—how clean is natural gas, really? It does burn cleaner than coal and oil. But if the methane life cycle from extraction to burning is considered, it’s not clean at all.

So the immediate need is for people to come together as citizens to defeat authoritarianism and secure protection for people and the planet while laying the foundation for the ecological civilization.

For the first time ever, polls show more Americans support Palestine than Israel. The unwavering fealty to Israel of the Democratic Party and a range of other American institutions can’t last forever.

As was the case through most of human history, we must—in my view—just live and experience the world as it is in its staggering complexity, rather than thinking our way into how to live.

The Labour Party could have made the case for a humane immigration system that treats refugees with dignity. Instead it has fanned the flames of racism and emboldened the far right.

Perhimpunan Merdeka, an insurrectionary-especifista anarchist federation in Indonesia, provides a statement for the 2025 August–September insurrections in Indonesia.

Francis’s gorgeous sapphire — a new-to-science species of butterfly — has just been described in the high-altitude evergreen forests of western Angola.

Anna Turns reviews 'The Shetland Way: Community and Climate Crisis on My Father’s Islands' by Marianne Brown.