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January 15, 2013

Call for papers on climate change and social change

The editors of the annual journal Alternate Routes are seeking papers on the environment and prospects for social change, for the 2014 issue.
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Published on January 15, 2013 05:54

January 13, 2013

Geopolitics of the Amazon: A defence of Bolivia’s development strategy

Free download from C&C: Alvaro Garcia Linero's powerful book-length response to leftist critics of the Morales government's economic policies, including the controversial TIPNIS highway and so-called 'extractivism.'
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Published on January 13, 2013 08:45

January 10, 2013

Weekend Reading, 19

Resource depletion and population ... Climate change, worse than we thought ... Biofuel and hunger in Guatemala ... David Harvey on Rebel Cities ... Bank bailout lies ...
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Published on January 10, 2013 21:30

Promised Land: Hollywood takes on the frackers

Ted Glick says Matt Damon's new movie doesn't tell the whole story about fracking, but it is nonetheless a strong film about corportate power
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Published on January 10, 2013 13:42

January 8, 2013

What if First Nations stopped subsidizing Canada?

The claim that First Nations live off government subsidies is a racist myth. In reality, Indigenous people have been massively subsidizing Canada for a very long time.
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Published on January 08, 2013 11:50

January 7, 2013

Tar Sands: Is Canada a ‘resource colony’?

Some Canadian environmentalists are blaming this ecological nightmare on foreign investors. Their analysis is both mistaken and dangerous: the tar sands are firmly in Canadian hands, and those hands are very dirty.
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Published on January 07, 2013 08:00

An Indigenous action program for real change in Canada

The Defenders of the Land program, adopted in 2008, is now proposed as a powerful unifying force for the new Idle No More Movement
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Published on January 07, 2013 08:00

January 6, 2013

C&C readers debate ‘The contradictions of real socialism’

Join the discussion of Michael Lebowitz's latest book
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Published on January 06, 2013 21:05

January 4, 2013

Bolivia: A balance sheet for 2012, challenges for 2013

Despite attacks from within and abroad, Bolivia's 'process of change' made important gains in 2012, and is building on its strengths to advance into a post-capitalist economic revolution.
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Published on January 04, 2013 21:19

Why Shell can’t be trusted in the Arctic

Greenpeace explains why the petro-giant's Arctic adventure is an environmental disaster waiting to happen.
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Published on January 04, 2013 09:20

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