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The scientific future
Forecasting, predicting and manifesting the future is a fraught occupation, but we can’t afford to abandon the scientific endeavour to capitalists, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
THE PRESENT THAT BLIGHTS ALL FUTURES: A call for climate reparations across the African continent at the COP27
A row over Trotskyist factions exposes competing visions of organisation inside Your Party and the wider left, argues NICK WRIGHT
A growing coalition, Cymru Together, is challenging traditional politics – calling for practical plans that connect climate action with economic justice, writes BETHAN SAYED
ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT delve into the strange, active – and sometimes predatory – world of plants
While politicians fixate on defence budgets, the real answers lie in peace-building and economic justice, says ALAN SIMPSON
ANDREA BRADLEY highlights how a City of Glasgow College health and safety dispute is the subject of an STUC Congress emergency motion
A COMPELLING feature of science is its ability to predict the future: theories ought to generate testable predictions that can be borne out.
Claiming that analysis is “scientific,” such as the motivation behind historical materialism in its original form, is a way of saying that data and theory from the past are being used to make claims about the future.
It is exactly this same predictive capacity that drives the contemporary fascination for data, algorithms and AI.
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