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The fashion industry is responsible for about one gigaton of carbon dioxide emissions a year, about two percent of global emissions. Fashion supply chains are largely powered by fossil fuels, and Stand.earth’s Fossil Free Fashion campaign is working to change that. One of the places the campaign is working is Bangladesh, the third biggest exporter […]

This year has seen the resolution of major suits against tech giants Alphabet and Meta, both of which were found liable for serious lawbreaking. Yet the penalties imposed on the corporations are laughably inadequate to restrain their power.

Evangelical churches like Rick Warren’s wouldn’t be as massive as they are with real retention of members over time without a serious plan for member leadership development. The Left could learn from them.

In You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim turn their confrontation with Elizabeth Holmes into a Hitchcockian thriller about the slippery nature of truth. It’s a masterpiece.

This is California Wire , a weekly newsletter from Jeff St. John on the state’s clean energy transition. Subscribe to get it every Thursday via Substack. Hello, everybody! Welcome back to California Wire. This week, I’m going to be talking about  virtual power plants again — but not the ones  set up by utilities…

On Sunday, October 25, 2026 Brazilians choose between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who finished narrowly ahead in the first round. For Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST), whose communities are featured in this episode of Field Notes, the stakes are concrete. They remember what happened the last time a Bolsonaro was in power.

I am a Shop Delegate for and member of the Bandaid Brigade Campaign, IU 610. We are an IWW shop union at an undisclosed private EMS agency in OH, connected to and supported by the Northeast OH GMB. Background and contextual information: We work in Emergency Medical Services and are made up of EMTs, paramedics, … Continue reading "Bandaid Brigade"

In her new book, economist Isabella Weber explains how inflation has helped drive the far right’s ascendance around the developed world — and how effective price regulation can promote affordability and boost the Left.

Key to a long-term solution to defeating the far right is an economic program that guarantees security to all, including the affordability of housing and other essential components of a dignified life, Isabella Weber tells Jacobin.

Some of the arguments against data centers sound familiar. Opponents say the projects will change the look and feel of a place, harm the air and water and reduce property values. This rationale is familiar because residents have raised the same concerns in campaigns against wind and solar. Whether these objections to very different types […]

Peter Thomas, the Marxist theorist best known for his work on Antonio Gramsci, has died. He restored the political edge to Gramsci’s theory of hegemony and saw his own scholarship as part of the Left’s fight for power.

Google just upped the ante on its plans to leverage the energy use of thousands of homes and businesses to free up space on the grid for data centers. The tech giant and the California-based firm  Voltus announced Thursday that they are going after a gigawatt of virtual-power-plant capacity in PJM Interconnection,…

For any donations to winter aid appeal sent to Ukraine Solidarity Campaign’s account (rather than paid on the Crowdfunder) please use the reference ‘Convoy’ or ‘Winter’. Bank details: Ukraine Solidarity Campaign; sort code 08-92-99; account number 65440841 (Co-operative Bank). By Liz Lawrence and Sacha Ismail The people of Ukraine need our solidarity more than ever … Continue reading An International Solidarity Convoy is going to Ukraine. Help us fundraise aid to deliver from the UK!

Everything dies, baby, that’s a fact, but maybe everything that dies someday comes back This blog is the personal view of Dave King, one of the main organisers of the 50th anniversary celebration. It does not necessarily represent the views of the New Lucas Plan group. Why am I working so hard to celebrate this...

Rising food prices. Supply chain disruptions. Wars. More extreme weather. The confluence of these factors in 2026 has prompted researchers, advocacy groups and farmers around the world to more forcefully question the architecture of an increasingly stressed global food system—and the money, both public and private, that supports it. Coinciding with harvest season in much […]

Massachusetts has made meaningful strides in recent years to get its robust energy-efficiency incentives into the hands of lower-income households who need them most. Now, a provision tucked into a pending energy bill could undermine that progress, environmental justice advocates say, by making certain benefits more…

France’s school students, Maidan and Budapest 1956: 70 Years Since the Hungarian Revolution

Racism is a powerful technique for sustaining injustice. We must respond to what it does, argues Gargi Bhattacharyya, if we are to dismantle it

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Únase a nosotros virtualmente a las 7:00 p. m. el jueves 19 de noviembre de 2026. Descubra los últimos avances sobre el complejo de armas nucleares, uno de los desafíos […]

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Balcony solar legislation has finally arrived on Capitol Hill. On Monday, U.S. Rep. Rob Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, introduced the first federal bill aimed at legalizing solar panels that simply plug into an outlet. The legislation would require all state  public utility commissions to consider rules that would…