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Cities all over America are spending billions of dollars on new infrastructure to improve water …

This article was written by Jules Boycoff and originally published at jacobinmag.com on February 4, …

“Don’t Look Up” shows that we cannot rely on politicians and the rich to solve our problems. …

What right does the US government, which has carried out acts of terror domestically and abroad, have to decry “terrorism”? …

American workers face the highest rate of inflation in over 30 years and is squeezing us for all that we have! …

The climate crisis is GLOBAL. And we see people from every corner of the world standing up to say we must put an end to it. …

These activists recognize that we must rely on ourselves if we are going to see any impactful changes, and they are standing up for the future of the whole world. …

Over 530 climate activists were arrested this past week when thousands of activists descended on Washington, D.C., to demand that the Biden administration protect indigenous communities and the environment. …

More than one month after Hurricane Ida rampaged from the Gulf Coast to the northeast, the trail of destruction and its effects on people’s lives is still visible for all to see. …

The 22 species recently declared extinct and predicted future extinctions are flashing red warning signs that humans and our Earth are facing an unprecedented ecological and biological catastrophe. …

This is a repost of an article from the Johns Hopkins News-Letter, published on September …

The COVID-19 pandemic has further revealed the shocking racial disparities in our health and our healthcare globally. Our bodies, societies, and planet are inflamed. …

The waves of migrants coming to the U.S. southern border is a sign that capitalism is not working for people. throughout the world. And Democratic and Republican politicians continue to carry out the same policies at the border. Both parties represent the same economic system, which benefits from racism deeply entrenched in American society and in our world, dividing working people by race and nationality while our real enemies are the bosses who exploit us all. …

While the cultural and entertainment center of New Orleans was saved from deadly storm surges, the same cannot be said for the rest of Louisiana’s coast. …

With disasters like Hurricane Ida, we can now see the outlines of our future if we allow the world to continue as it is – and it’s terrifying… …

As of July, 50 out of California’s 58 counties were in a drought state of emergency. …

A record-setting heat wave hit the Western United States last week in California, Nevada, Utah, …

Young people today face a world of crises. It’s clear that this society does not …

We are facing a crisis like never before. The current organization of production, especially the …

The ongoing megadrought in the western U.S. is a symptom of capitalism. We need to get rid of this system in order to solve these kinds of problems. …

Reports released this week demonstrate the urgency of the climate crisis. …

If we can fly a helicopter on Mars, why can’t we clean up our own planet? …

As Taiwan experiences a severe drought, its government is rationing water for residents and farmers, but its large semiconductor manufacturing company is relatively unaffected. …

The economic and military domination of the U.S. remains the highest priority of the Biden administration. It is certainly a return to normal — but it is the same normal that has been the problem for a long time. …

The crisis in Texas was caused, in multiple ways, by capitalism. …

The Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s -1970s was one of the most significant social …

Oil refinery workers in Grandpuits, France, have been on strike against the closure of their plant. …

Capitalism is in a state of emergency, bringing all of humanity to the precipice. There is still a window of opportunity for the revolutionary power of the proletariat to intervene and carve out a path towards socialism. But that window is closing, and time is not on our side. …

The pressures of this period are building across the U.S. and around the world. But the capitalist system that is responsible for the crisis remains. This virus has united us in many ways. It has given us a picture of the future capitalism holds out to us. And it isn’t a future that we can accept. …

Now that a couple of vaccines have been approved for emergency use authorization by the …

On January 20, it was hard not to feel anxious. Would Trump really leave? Would …

Some claim that the solution to ending the control of the rich over the system is to get money out of politics and demand more transparency. But how would this work, when the entire system serves the interests of the rich? We need a system that operates in the interest of the majority, not the interest of a small exploiting capitalist class. While the wealthy may own everything, working people are the ones who make it all run. That is where our power lies, in the workplaces and in the streets, not in the ballot box. …

  Russia, China, and the U.S. are battling it out to see who can sink …

Global heating is raising sea levels around the world, although at different rates in different …

In the latest of the Trump administration environmental protection rollbacks, 17 million acres of the …

We don’t have as many options as we think we do… …

The elections campaigns have cost an enormous amount of money, which could have been spent on things that actually benefit us. …

Since 1944, the United States and Mexico have shared water across their border, with the …

Early this month the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, published his view of the state of the world and he doesn’t think it’s pretty. …

What if researchers worked together to fix our plastic waste problem? …

Microplastics, found in clothing, are a byproduct of the fossil fuel industry. …

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2020 has indeed been the worst year. But further events like the ones that define this year will not end with it, unless the root cause – capitalism – is removed. …

The made-for-TV conventions of the Democratic and Republican parties were held to convince us to vote for them. …

On August 17, the Trump administration opened up the coastal plane of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling …

Public transit, like the rest of our society is in an extraordinary crisis …

The South Pole is warming at a rate three times faster than the rest of the globe. …

And it’s on course to get even worse, with weakening environmental protections …